Get Your MSP on the New Wave of the Cloud So You’re Not Left Behind
January 9, 2015
Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Stuart Crawford.
The year 2015 has just started, and the smell of change is in the air. Last year was full of upheaval for the MSP world, and if you haven’t started making a gameplan to keep up with the evolving industry we find ourselves in, you’re going to find yourself left behind. Listen to an interview with BJ Farmer on what his MSP in Houston is doing to win in 2015. Click here to check out the interview.
BJ Farmer from Houston Microsoft Award-winning company CITOC knows that this has always been the case for our industry. “CITOC, the company name, stands for ‘change is the only constant,’” says BJ. “That holds true in the technology world. We need to be surfers — we need to ride different waves all the time. Don’t get stuck on any one wave, you’ll get squished; you need to keep moving to new waves.”…
BJ has helped steer CITOC towards success for years now, and he knows that the old ways of making money and staying relevant are dying. “The days of simply being able to provide the managing of PCs and servers is waning,” says BJ. “A lot of this is because of the advent of the cloud. The cloud is moving a lot of the plumbing for the servers and whatnot away from the office. Gone are the days when you’re putting all the servers in a broom closet in the back. Nowadays they’re using more cloud services and virtual servers, and applications in the cloud and so on. Maintaining exchange servers is gone away, maintaining sequel servers is going away…”
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