by BitTitan Team | Sep 12, 2016 | Industry Info
Cloud Services to Reach $236 Billion, Forrester Says According to GeekWire, public cloud services are “the biggest disruption in the tech market in the past 15 years—and adoption is accelerating….” Cloud computing has officially gone mainstream. Not buying into it...
by BitTitan Team | Sep 11, 2016 | Industry Info
Are You a VAR or MSP?” Here’s Why They’re Asking I spend a large percentage of my day speaking with and meeting our current and potential clients. These companies are typically SMBs, ranging from financial services firms to EDU to non-profits to just...
by BitTitan Team | Sep 9, 2016 | Industry Info
The Realities of XaaS (Everything-as-a-Service) Since the emergence of cloud, there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t hear, “XaaS this, XaaS that” and how everything in the world is going to become some type of XaaS. So what is XaaS and how did we get here? XaaS...
by BitTitan Team | Sep 7, 2016 | Industry Info
Margin on Cloud is About Leaves, Not Limbs Just a few short years ago, Microsoft Office 365 launched. At the time, selling the product required genuine knowledge, and migrating to the product required genuine expertise. There was significant partner margin and...
by BitTitan Team | Aug 30, 2016 | Industry Info
Dear VAR, We’re Through. If VARs aren’t talking Cloud with their customers, it doesn’t mean their customers aren’t talking about it. In a recent LinkedIn post, Shane Zide of CDW Cloud Portfolio shares a clever anecdote of the customer/VAR breakup over the cloud. And...
by BitTitan Team | Aug 26, 2016 | Industry Info
Genee Grants Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Wish This week Microsoft announced its acquisition of smart scheduling service, Genee. This agreement adds Microsoft to a running list of major tech players banking on the allure of Artificial Intelligence...
by BitTitan Team | Aug 24, 2016 | From the Experts
Modern MSP: Delivering Automation to Customers How do you mix people and automated processes? You help them work together. For our partners, automation is an opportunity to maximize resources and help more customers. For users, delivering automation streamlines their...
by BitTitan Team | Aug 24, 2016 | Industry Info
Understanding the Buyer’s Journey You’ve transformed your on-premises IT solutions to the cloud. You’ve transformed your product-focused business to a recurring revenue services model. But there’s one thing left to do—transforming your marketing approach for the...
by BitTitan Team | Aug 24, 2016 | Industry Info
Is Demand for Global Cloud Services Jeopardizing User Security? There’s no question about the power of cloud services—they enable everything from massive scalability and virtualized resources to instant provisioning and faster expansion. Businesses worldwide see the...
by BitTitan Team | Aug 18, 2016 | Industry Info
Embracing Change: Technology vs. Cloud Solutions and the ModernMSP For decades, we’ve lived in a “technology” world. You know that world—mainframes, min-computers, PC’s, laptops, networking gear, big software, PBX’s, etc.—all used to enable business. In this model,...
by BitTitan Team | Aug 18, 2016 | Industry Info
Breaking into the Enterprise: 12 TB in Two Days with MigrationWiz Nearly 10,000 users. 20 TB of data in total. Two weekends to migrate. Mission: impossible? Not for us, nor for you. Recently, our Service Engineering team had a unique opportunity: to deliver a large,...
by BitTitan Team | Aug 16, 2016 | Industry Info
A Two-Step MSP Strategy for Managed Services Growth If you’re like most IT Solutions Providers, you’ve been reading and hearing about the variations of cloud business models. They include the Managed Services Provider, Cloud Solutions Provider, Cloud Services Broker,...