Cloud Computing, Big Data, Mobility Pile on for MSP Opportunity
January 5, 2015
Grazed from ChannelPartnersOnline. Author: Kelly Teal.
As cloud computing, big data and mobility services grow more popular, you can bet that you, Mr./Ms. MSP, will see an increase in business, and it’s time to plan accordingly. MarketsandMarkets makes this prediction in a new report devoted to the indirect channel, noting that MSPs will see demand soar between 2015 and 2019 – by how much, however, the research firm did not say.
What is clear is that MSPs and the partners they team with, including VARs, ISVs and systems integrators, all stand to profit, as long as they offer vendor-neutral services and cater to customers’ specific needs, MarketsandMarkets said. That good news – albeit not new news – for MSPs and their associates comes as many enterprises and SMBs don’t want to take on the hassle of understanding, procuring and overseeing the technology that drives their organizations…
Over the coming four years, even more companies will turn to the indirect channel and ask partners to shoulder those responsibilities. Of course, end users will enjoy not just the absence of stress but the savings: MarketsandMarkets said relying on a third-party MSP cuts recurring in-house IT costs by 30-40 percent and adds as much as a 60 percent boost in efficiency…
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