Microsoft, Continuum offerta Cloud, servizi gestiti gli aggiornamenti

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Continuum e Microsoft sta aggiornando loro rispettivi cloud e strategie di servizi gestiti a Autotask comunità Live. Office 365 è ora libero di partecipanti per un anno. Ecco un riepilogo blog live da MSPmentor.

Continuum VP Steve Ricketts descrive come MSPs pu? centralizzare attività, snellire le operazioni ed espandersi in nuovi mercati.
Microsoft (MSFT) e Continuum sta aggiornando loro rispettivi cloud e strategie di servizi gestiti a Autotask comunità Live. La sessione di Microsoft è venuto come un po ' di scuse ai partner;  la società ha dichiarato che ha bisogno di essere più facile lavorare con il mercato cloud. Il ramo d'ulivo: Microsoft sta dando partecipanti alla conferenza Autotask un abbonamento di cloud Office 365 di un anno gratis. Separatamente, Continuum è descrivere come MSPs pu? guidare verso i profitti operativi il 50 per cento. Leggere questo blog live per aggiornamenti minuto per minuto.
Ricapitoliamo: Microsoft
Bryan Von Axelson (SMB Cloud stratega), Bob Neal (SMB Cloud vendite) e Corey Nagel (SMB Cloud Marketing) sono parte di una squadra appena creata-- il team canale Cloud - Microsoft.Microsoft è subendone le sfide del mercato - non essendo in grado di lavorare e trovare le giuste fonti di Microsoft.Solo circa il 20 per cento di MSPs nella stanza indicata che hanno ricevuto incentivi sconti Office 365 - una figura che deluso di Microsoft. Von Axelson diede il suo indirizzo email (BVA [at] Microsoft.com) per assicurarsi che i partecipanti avevano un modo semplice per collaborare più strettamente con la società."Siamo dedicati alla nostra strategia attraverso il canale di guida,"dirigenti Microsoft ha insistito. L'azienda è ribadire che è "all'inizio del viaggio" con l'Open Office 365. Leggere tra le righe e suona come Microsoft pu? espandere il programma aperto, che è estremamente limitato, ma permette di MSPs gestire il cliente finale nube fatturazione.S?, Windows 8.1 è stato menzionato nel passaggio.In generale, la presentazione di Microsoft sembrava un passo "Siamo spiacenti, noi stiamo ascoltando, noi stiamo migliorando il nostro programma partner".Il mio giro: è bene per Microsoft di essere umili. Ma i suggerimenti suggerendo Open Office 365 si pu? evolvere dimostra la sfida fondamentale: anche quando Microsoft diventa canale più amichevole, non canale è abbastanza amichevole - almeno non inizialmente. Office 365 è di due anni. Non c'è progresso. Ma aperto dovrebbe essere completamente aperta - disponibile come parte del tutto Office 365 SKUs.Microsoft chiuso offrendo a tutti i partecipanti Autotask un abbonamento di un anno gratuito di Office 365.
Ricapitolando: Steve Ricketts, VP marketing di Continuum
All'incirca 500 MSPs eseguire Continuum (RMM e NOC) e Autotask in tandem.Ricketts sta dicendo MSPs come scalare senza aggiunta di costi per le imprese.L'azienda ora ha 670 dipendenti e partner di Continuum gestire circa 500.000 dispositivi del cliente finale. We've got un numero di partner che stanno crescendo a 30, 60 e 90 per cento."Uno dei partner è cresciuto al 90 per cento, senza l'aggiunta di personale - sfruttando un desk in outsourcing NOC e aiuto per scalare senza l'aggiunta di nuovi dipendenti. Il partner è cresciuto da 150 dispositivi gestiti al tech ed è ora avvicinando 300 dispositivi gestiti per TechMSP Financials prima e dopo: un sacco di MSPs partendo hanno un 65% COGS (costi delle merci vendute); 10% SGA e 25% i profitti di funzionamento. Egli dice che lo stato desiderato è COGS 40%, 10% SG & A e 50% margine operativo.Sfide di grande costo per MSPs: techs Senior facendo manutenzione ordinaria; Techs che ricerca per risolvere i problemi; utilizzo di low tech; alto costo della formazione; fatturato; aumento dei costi benefici e più.Le sfide di costo di fissaggio: il miglior MSPs stanno centralizzando, snellire le operazioni ed espandendo la loro attività all'interno della base di clienti esistenti.Continuum dove si inserisce nella conversazione: per la centralizzazione, Ricketts menzionato la console di gestione centralizzata del Continuum per centralizzazione; prezzo negoziato si occupa di LogMeIn e altri per vendite incrementali. Per semplificare le operazioni, Ricketts chiamato MSPs a esternalizzare loro NOC continuum per manutenzione e risoluzione dei problemi. In più, ha detto, sfruttare personale Continuum on-demand per progetti come le migrazioni Exchange e molto altro ancora. E ha citato i servizi di marketing per MSPs. E indic? a espandersi in nuovi mercati, opportunità di Continuum di offerta backup e gestione dei dispositivi portatili.
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Small Business Boosts IT Spending, Budgets

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Expect small business to spend more on IT and increase IT budgets this year. A new Spiceworks report on the state of SMB IT spending points to higher budgets, more focus on buying end-user hardware and IT services, but not more spending on hiring internal IT personnel. Sounds like a prime opportunity for managed services providers and cloud services providers.

Small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are boosting their IT budgets this year, and much of their spending is going to cloud services. That's according to the most recent State of the SMB report from IT monitoring and management platform Spiceworks. The report covers the first half of 2013 and points to some key trends for the rest of the year, too. Here are the details.
Spiceworks pulled out several major findings from its look at the SMB data in the first half of the year. For instance, the average annual IT budget is now $192,000, up by $ 30,000 from the second half of 2012.
The biggest budget increases are coming on the S part of SMB – companies with fewer than 250 employees. Companies with 250 to 999 employees actually showed a decline in IT spending.
But SMBs are not spending that money on IT. Rather, they are using it for new end-user hardware purchases and new cloud-based and hosted IT services, pointing to greater opportunities for managed services providers and cloud services providers.
Spiceworks reports that spending on cloud services has remained steady over the past six months with 60 percent of SMBs using them, but the company expects that to rise to 66 percent in the second half of 2013.
Meanwhile, server virtualization remains a strong trend in this market with 72 percent of respondents saying they use it, up from 65 percent in Spiceworks 2:0 2012 survey.  The larger the SMB, the more likely it is to be using server virtualization, Spiceworks reports.
Tablets remain a growing part of the SMB IT picture. Fifty-nine percent of survey respondents said they have tablets on their networks, up 6 percentage points from six months ago. Spiceworks said that 70 percent of respondents plan to have tablets on their networks in the second half of 2013. And while smartphone adoption has leveled off, Spiceworks said, survey results suggest that those devices are headed for a new peak in 2013 as well.

Next MSP Backup Move: Microsoft Exchange Server

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As MSPs expand beyond file-level backup, the big opportunity ahead is Microsoft Exchange Backup. CloudBerry Lab explains how to get started.
My previous guest blog described why MSPs need to push beyond file-level backup to offer database backup. A natural first step, I noted, involves backup services for Microsoft SQL Server -- which continues to enjoy double-digit sales growth. But don’t end your journey there. Expand your scope to include Exchange Server backup.
My reasoning is simple: In 2012, Exchange controlled 53 percent of the corporate email market. That figure will grow to 68 percent by 2016, predicts The Radicati Group, as businesses increasingly standardize on Microsoft's email and collaboration platform.
That spells opportunities for MSPs. Email remains the lifeblood of most businesses. Lost messages often mean lost productivity. Even worse: Businesses that fail to properly safeguard their email databases may wind up violating government regulations and corporate compliance mandates.
With those harsh realities in mind, CloudBerry Lab's MSP partner base asked us for help in the email backup market. Our new CloudBerry Backup for Microsoft Exchange Server answers that call for help, and automates database backup to more than 15 supported cloud storage platforms.
Indeed, the solution allows MSPs to back up on-premises Exchange systems to public clouds like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Glacier, Windows Azure, HP Cloud, Rackspace and OpenStack-compatible clouds.
Alexander Negrash is director of marketing at CloudBerry Lab, a leading cloud storage service provider that works closely with MSPs. Monthly guest blogs such as this one are part of MSPmentor's annual platinum sponsorship.

Cloud Security Specialist GLS acquires managed security practice StillSecure

Security Solutions Provider cloud GLS (a brand created this year from perimeter E-Security and USA.NET) acquired the Division of security managed services, StillSecure a MSP Colorado-based managed security services and certificate of conformity. The deal will expand business managed services of GLS.

Security Solutions Provider cloud GLS (a brand created this year from perimeter E-Security and USA.NET) acquired the Division of security managed services, StillSecure a MSP Colorado-based managed security services and certificate of conformity. The deal will expand business managed services of GLS.
The new purchase is just the latest for the predecessor GLS E-Security perimeter, which has used acquisitions to further develop its software platforms, cloud-based security. Meanwhile, StillSecure has a rich history in the managed services space in recent years as a top service provider's mobile device management and cloud services.
GLS said it will incorporate StillSecure log archiving web service and application firewall solution for the GLS. In addition, it will continue to support StillSecure customers and channel partners and provide them with full access to its portfolio of software and managed services.
"StillSecure's world-class team, innovative technologies and services perfectly in portfolio and existing customers of both companies stand to benefit greatly by GLS through this acquisition," said Tim Harvey, CEO, GLS, in a prepared statement. "This agreement allows us to further achieve our strategic objectives to broaden our product portfolio and expand our domain expertise to further assist our customers and partners."
GLS has 6,000 customers of financial services organization, retail, healthcare, energy, critical infrastructure and manufacturing sectors.

Cenzic launches managed services offering for Enterprise application security

Application security intelligence solutions provider Cenzic Cenzic has expanded its Managed Services for Enterprise Application Security to offer four levels of service, including an assessment of compliance-ready available for all types of organizations.

Cenzic CMO Bala Venkat: the lines between web, mobile and cloud are blurring. "
Application security intelligence solutions provider Cenzic Cenzic has expanded its Managed Services for Enterprise Application Security to offer four levels of service, including an assessment of compliance-ready available for all types of organizations. What is included in this new offering? You reveal the characteristics.
This offer allows you to remote vulnerability tests on the cloud, mobile and web applications. After that the risks have been identified, recommendations are provided to assist with data protection. The offer is powered by the company's HailStorm technology.
According to the company, the new offer includes the following features:
Secure code and analysis -monitors and analyzes the software code during development and finds errors and potential vulnerability without executing code;Development and pre scan -test their applications under development and staging environment as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC);Manual penetration testing – Cenzic's professional security team will conduct extensive testing and customized to specific applications;Secure application Production test – test all web applications, web services and legacy applications safely without impact on the production environment;Production application of real time monitoring and integration of web application firewall (WAF) -provides real-time monitoring of web applications in production, providing real time results for the WAF and automates security policies to protect applications from vulnerability detected; andMobile application testing -test vulnerabilities in applications that have mobile connections.
Cenzic Cenzic CMO Bala Venkat, said in his prepared speech that "the lines between web, mobile and cloud are blur, resulting in new vectors, sophisticated and continually evolving online threats.
"This offer helps lower managed capital expenditure and operating costs, allowing companies the confidence that they are up to date with the latest security threats to their business," said Bruno.
For more information on Cenzic's partner program, please visit the company's Web site.

Autotask comunità Live: MSP completo News Recap

Complete news coverage Autotask community Live 2013 for managed service provider (MSP).

The core message of AutoTask CEO Mark Cattini was on catching waves of growth as a cloud, mobile, social and data.
Autotask community Live 2013 as wraps, there was a lot of news business and cloud management for managed service providers (MSP). Attended the MSP and customer or event detected and remotely, here's a complete list, related links and analysis of MSPmentor.
Our cover features:
1. Autotask community Live: the seven voices In the Hall--including one rather interesting about Microsoft Office 365 cloud partner program Open.
2. Microsoft, Continuum Cloud update, managed services strategies-including more Office 365 insights most useful guide services managed by Continuum VP Steve Ricketts.
3. Autotask CEO: IPO potential Cloud services? -CEO Mark Cattini describes why the company has met with financial experts and bankers. No IPO is expected at this point. But Autotask now has much more knowledge about its assessment, I suspect that ...
4. Autotask CEO: there are large amounts of data, Smart is the platform – take a look more closely at this blog entry because it includes extensive views from many of the top executives of Autotask. This is the blog that you want to read for all Autotask MSP key Conference Messaging.
5. Autotask community Live: 20 questions-this was our Conference Preview, raising the key questions that should explore MSPs.
That's all for now.

Apple iOS 7: Can You Manage New iPhone, iPad OS?

When Apple's iOS 7 arrives for iPad and iPhone in the fall of 2013, MSPs and mobile device management (MDM) software companies better be ready.

Apple says iOS 7 for iPhone and iPad will arrive in the fall of 2013. MSPs will be ready?
Apple (AAPL) today announced iOS 7, an update of the mobile OS for iPhone and iPad. iOS 7 is now in beta and will be available for smartphone and Apple Tablet in the fall of 2013. For MSPs, RMM, software vendors and management companies (MDM) on your mobile device, the race is on for 7 iOS is easily managed by remote systems.
Of course, a long list of software companies RMM (remote monitoring and Administration) already support Google Android and iOS 6. We will be checking in with Continuum, GFI Software, LabTech Software, Kaseya, level platforms, N-able (now owned by SolarWInds) and others in the industry to see how long support the new iOS release 7.
What consumers and business users expect from iOS 7? According To Apple:
"7 iOS is completely redesigned with subtle movement, a stylish color palette distinct functional layers that make it feel more alive. The typography was refined for a cleaner, simpler, and use of translucency and motion makes even simple tasks more engaging. iOS 7 has hundreds of great new features, including Control Center, notifications, enhanced Multitasking, AirDrop, enhanced images, Safari, Siri and introduces iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service based on the music you listen to on iTunes.
The list of iOS features 7 deeper in detail include:
Control Center. A simple shot allows users to access a centralized control center for airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or do not disturb and more, Apple said.Notification Center is now available from the lock screen, so you can see all your notifications with a single blow, Apple said.Improved Multitasking allows developers to enable any multitasking app in the background with a new API. In addition, Apple says, users have the ability to switch between their applications more intuitive and visual.AirDrop is a completely new way to share content with people close, Apple reported.iCloud Keychain can store passwords and credit card information across all your devices, Apple said.
Apple says iOS 7 beta software and SDK are available immediately for iOS Developer Program members at developer.apple.com. iOS 7 will be available as a free software update for iPhone 4 and iPad 2 later and later, mini iPad and iPod touch (5th generation) this fall, the company indicated.