Back in late April, with the world’s media distracted by the COVID-19 pandemic and businesses desperately trying to improve their remote desktop security, a number of cyberattacks in the Middle East showed us what the future of cyberwarfare might be. Continue reading
IT service management, or ITSM for short, is a strategic approach to optimizing and improving IT service company strategy, goals, objectives, and processes to maximize the quality of the service provided to the customer. This approach is popular among managed service providers who target bigger clients with more advanced IT needs and demands, or those whose aim is to build a flawless and streamlined service.
IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a framework that defines core areas, KPIs, and processes for the effective provision of IT services. It is designed upon the IT service management (ITSM) approach and allows managed IT service providers to streamline and standardize their operations to maximize customer experience.
So you have finally reached the point where you don't worry about finding and onboarding new customers, since both your expertise and your reputation are indisputable. However, landing another shop or a small office brings you low MRR and no satisfaction. There’s no challenge - you have already mastered the SMB space.
Cloud computing has redefined all parts of the IT industry, including managed services. Today, MSPs must embrace the cloud in order to deliver the best value to customers and optimize their business's operating costs.
Most MSPs have little formal training in human resources. Nonetheless, running an efficient HR operation is critical for all but the smallest of MSP businesses. Unless you’re a one-person MSP working for yourself, then you have employees, which means that you need an HR operation to hire and manage them. With that need in mind, this article provides an overview of HR for MSPs.
Download this ITIL Incident and Problem Management Checklist to get an example of ITIL guidance in the context of the Incident Management, Request for Change template, and Post Implementation Review template applicable for Problem Management life cycle.
Download the MSP's client offboarding checklist to streamline your offboarding procedure and reduce your organization's risks. The pack includes a ready-to-print PDF file and an Excel file to help you create a customizable checklist for your MSP. Continue reading
Download this guide to automate repeatable IIS server related duties with PowerShell scripts and accomplish tasks faster and more efficiently. Continue reading
CloudReso provides managed backup services to hundreds of businesses. Given that the MSP was founded in 2018, turning to the cloud for its backup storage needs was an easy decision. Yet the company faced a more difficult challenge in finding managed backup software that fits its needs -- especially when it came to white-labeling its backup services in order to offer them under its own brand. Continue reading
Delivering reliable data backup services is challenging in any setting. But for MSPs who work with clients in regions prone to natural disasters, such as California, backing up data reliably is even more difficult — especially if customers expect the option of being able to store data locally as well as in the cloud. Continue reading
Abbeycomp IT Solutions is a managed service provider that faces two challenges familiar to many MSPs who provide managed data backup: It has hundreds of terabytes’ worth of data to back up, and that data is spread across multiple systems, making backups especially difficult to
manage. Continue reading
Join David Gugick (MSP360) and Dennis O’Connell (Taylor Business Group) for an educational webinar to learn how you can sell backup services while increasing your bottom line. Continue reading
Join MSP360 and AWS for an open discussion about the power of this combined solution and hear from a real customer who tells his own story about the decision to use MSP360 / AWS to protect his customers! Continue reading
Chris Wiser and Doug Hazelman talk about how your MSP can reboot your revenue and grow coming out of these uncertain times! Learn how to leverage your MSP services to get more leads, increase conversion rates, and continue to grow your business. Continue reading
