Monday, July 1, 2013

Autotask Community Live: 7 MSP Rumors in the Hall

Managed and rumors involving Microsoft Office 365, N-able SolarWinds, Intronis, independenceIT and AVG emerged to Autotask community Live cloud service. Here are 7 entries.

Autotask community live today wraps up in Scottsdale, Ariz. in addition to our interviews with CEO Mark Cattini and Senior VP Len Castanzo, MSPmentor lots of cloud and managed services chatter heard Intronis, independenceIT, N-able/SolarWinds (SWI) and more. Here are seven voices in the corridors ...
7. Sweet Spot: independenceIT claims to be the only Supplier of hosted desktop/cloud app platform that (A) is pure channel and (B) controls its technology. The company also targets the triple trend perfect-storm-cloud, mobile and data. Executive VP Seth Bostock mentioned that the company has hosted desktop fire started during the first wave ASP (application service provider) in the 1990s. Executive VP Jim Lippie, MSP and Staples/networks Thrive veteran, seemed satisfied with his career move to channel-centric company. The two leaders want to do independenceIT the alternative of de-facto channel for Office 365 – while also virtualization more non-Microsoft applications for partners to serve customers ...
6. Upside of N-able Cloud for SolarWinds: SolarWinds when acquired in degree N for $ 120 million last week, some critics openly wondered why SolarWinds called the deal a game of SMB cloud. Here's one potential answer: automation technology managing N-able allows MSPs to manage on-premises and cloud services-hybrid from VMware and Hyper-V in IaaS. Watch for N-able to say more about how to manage Office 365 services and Windows Azure in the weeks and months to come. Marco LaVecchia and Derik Belair MSPs key message: you have to stay relevant with your customers as cloud services catch on.
Side note: N-able GM JP Jauvin was an early champion of technology Automation Manager when he arrived at the company as an advisor to then President. Now, he is running the business at arity N to SolarWinds.
5. Coming Soon: backup and archiving enhancements continue to Cloud Intronis. An informed source who knows how to summarize information really well said MSPmentor: Intronis in The Spring Release includes 13 QuickSpin, offering advanced data recovery support for virtualized machines; an advanced Partner Portal Intronis lined with greater customization, usability and managed access controls; and Branding Wizard, a new marketing and enablement tool that allows you to quickly create a partner Intronis customer portal with your logo, colors and specific information. Voice: Intronis Watch a hypervisor Boost beyond VMware include Microsoft Hyper-V.
4. security providers are where?: AVG Anti-virus company, had a major presence at the Conference. McAfee has had a presence in Intel (INTC) stand. But rivals such as Kaspersky Lab, Sophos and Symantec (SYMC) seemingly sitting out the event. Somehow I think that is a mistake: next to storage, security has got to be one of the first things that MSPs to offer their customers.
3. opening soon: after the opening of offices throughout Europe, Australia and Beijing, Autotask is preparing to increase its footprint in the United States located. Watch for a potential office opening soon in Chicago.
2. for sale in small and medium-sized enterprises Corporate IT: in case you haven't seen MSPmentor coverage earlier this week, Autotask apparently sees an opportunity to promote the SaaS platform for enterprise IT departments that want to become providers of business units.
1. Expanded Office 365 open?: If you listened carefully the Microsoft keynote at the Conference, the company seemed to be stating that you are taking a close look at Open Office 365 – a cloud partner program that allows VARs and MSPs to manage billing customers. Open is a promising, but it is only a small piece of the larger portfolio Office 365. I think he left frustrated-partners and Microsoft knows it. If I had to guess: changes/updates will be announced Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in July.
That's all for now ...

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