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Why You Should Become an MSP and How To Do It
Many MSPs are in this profession by choice. But as the technology and the channel evolve, non-MSPs have no choice but to consider moving into managed services.
VARs in particular are in the hot seat. With a major focus on hardware, albeit buttressed by vertical market software or other specialization, and installation and set up, VARs are easy pickings for large vendors looking to broaden their direct base. VARs increasingly walk into a client only to find that HP or Dell were just there.
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Gain Higher Education IT Efficiency Through Mobile Remote Monitoring and Management(RMM)
You would be hard pressed to find an IT environment tougher to manage than Higher Education. Student turnover is constant, the network by definition is campus-wide with devices spread all over, and you need to support the business office, faculty, administration and often an array of complex research facilities.
Did we mention budgets are tight and competition for students intense? In the case of competition, online schools have grown immensely in recent years, and private Colleges and Universities face stiffer competition from Public Schools who have been advancing their offerings and quality.
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You Restarted the Server From Where?
MSPs and IT admins spend way too much time on call. No wonder so many complain about not having a life, what with working overtime chained to a console at a data or operations center, or just the cluttered desk the admin sadly calls home.
What’s worse, if the admin is visiting an end user, waiting for the dentist, or even taking a restroom break, problems can’t be dealt with, and common tasks such as system updates won’t happen. Now you have an overworked unhappy admin and irritated end users or MSP clients. Not a great combination. Meanwhile safety is at stake since emergencies such as breaches can’t be quickly dealt with.
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The Future of Wearable Technology in the Enterprise Industry
The wearable technology industry is booming with smartwatches, fitness bands, heart monitors, smart glasses, smart shirts, and various other devices that augment our realities, track our activities, or pinpoint our positions in both time and space. There seems to be no end to the array of products that promise to digitally enhance, measure, and document our lives. As the number and complexity of these devices grows, so does the need to monitor and manage their activities and the data they produce. The task of monitoring and managing these devices, while simple to state, is not as simple to implement. ...
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Top Eight Considerations for Selecting the Right RMM Solution
Managed IT services providers (MSPs) in charge of monitoring and managing your systems and your network health do so often using scripts, homegrown solutions, commercial software, or a combination of all of them. One problem with this approach is that you have a solution that become unsupportable over time because scripts can fail without proper maintenance. Homegrown solutions tend to fail with personnel changes and the person who supported that solution was a single point of failure. And using multiple commercial solutions fails because vendors often get into a finger-pointing match during troubleshooting sessions with each other, while the customer, you, suffers. But how do you go about selecting the right remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution? ...
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