The BitTitan Blog for Service Providers
In case you missed it, last month Gartner published its annual Magic Quadrant on Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and here’s what we know: the leaders remain the same. Amazon Web Services (AWS) reserves the top slot, and rightfully so. Being first-to-market...
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 yet? Look around…it’s everywhere, from music streaming...
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 about any other...
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 stands for Everything-as-a-Service—basically any...
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 incentives on the sale of Office 365, as well a...
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 it’s heartbreaking. Well,...
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 (AI). Piggybacking on the recent purchase of SwiftKey, this new...
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 buyer's journey. It’s a matter of...
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 cloud as the future, and so continuing reports about mass global...
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, you had the VAR delivering and maintaining this on-prem “stuff.”...
