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Midsized companies to the cloud: tough, but worth it

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For midsized companies, moving to the cloud isn’t easy. Midsized organizations — generally defined those employing anywhere from 50 to 500 people — lack the massive IT departments (or budgets) of large enterprises. Nor do they see the potentially high savings enjoyed by much smaller businesses. On both points, they’re somewhere in the middle.

Synoptek CEO On Acquisition Strategy, Fragmented MSP Market

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The MSP market is ripe for M&A.

Synoptek made waves Friday with its announcement that it had acquired Pay Per Cloud (PPC) of Sacramento and Rocket Science Consulting of San Francisco.

But M&A is nothing new for the Irvine, Calif.-based managed service provider, which has in fact completed five acquisitions since 2012. Here's Synoptek CEO Tim Britt's take on the MSP market and acquisition strategy.

MSPs Must Beat Fatigue, Become 'Total Solution Providers'

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Some MSPs are already starting to adopt the total solution provider model.

Is the "Total Solution Provider" the next market evolution after Managed Service Provider?

Jim Lippie, chief advisor at Clarity Channel Advisors, thinks so.

The term is one he came up with, describing a company that combines cloud services, business analytics and managed services under one roof. As the channel moves from value added resellers, to managed services, Lippie said he believes that the "total solution provider" is the next logical step.

Deloitte CTO: 10 Hot IT Trends And Top Channel Opportunities For 2015

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Ten Ways Solution Providers Can Up Their Game In 2015

Upheaval, change, and transformation is happening in IT faster than expected and it's a trend solution providers have a unique opportunity to exploit. So says Deloitte, one of the "Big Four" professional services firms, which released its sixth annual Tech Trends 2015 report Tuesday.

Instant Classic Super Bowl Offers Classic Business Lessons

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Go team!

As usual, the day after the Super Bowl is a good opportunity for publishing folks to use the game as an analogy, however weak, for any number of things.

We were on the lookout for this, and came across one blog that's more than just a cute way to repurpose the news of the day. Over at Inc.com, Justin Bariso has one that makes some solid points.

How VARs Can Make Money On The Internet Of Things

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Andres Sintes

Although the Internet of Things (IoT) market has yet to reach its full potential, which the networking giant Cisco estimates to be around $19 trillion in the next 10 years, solution providers are already struggling to discover where to invest and how to prepare in order capitalize on this relatively new market.

Addressing the Gaps in Your Customers’ Data Protection Strategy

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The EMC Global Data Protection Index introduced last month shows the business consequences of misaligned data protection strategies. And the survey results also give us a glimpse into disasters waiting to happen from inadequate protection for next generation workloads.

Calling All Solution Providers: New MRR Business Opportunity

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As more and more organizations are embracing SaaS based applications like Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 this presents new monthly recurring revenue (MRR) opportunities for Solution Providers offering cloud backup and recovery services. Organizations need to be able to protect their data that is created and stored in Microsoft Office 365 just like any other enterprise data within their IT environment – especially for those organizations that need to meet strict regulatory and compliance mandates.

Big clients? Give them even bigger cloud benefits

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Remember elephant jokes from when you were young? Q: What time is it when an elephant sits on your watch? A: Time to get a new watch. Seriously, you wouldn’t want even 5 percent of an elephant’s weight sitting on your watch. So why would large enterprises — the elephants of the business world — want to continue spending 5 percent or even more of their revenue on IT?

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