MSP Consortium Forms as ‘Cloud Changes Everything’

April 25, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from ChannelPartners.  Author: Edward Gately.

The rapidly growing “cloud tsunami" is forcing the MSP industry to completely transform itself, embracing consumption economics, and focusing on sales, marketing and training.  The new MSP Consortium aims to bring together the industry to address challenges and ensure members not only survive, but thrive in this rapidly changing environment. Membership is free.

Amy Rutt, consortium board president and CEO of Ciracom, tells Channel Partners the consortium is moving ahead “with an enormous sense of urgency" and is quickly gaining members…

“The cloud has completely changed everything for us," she said. “I’ve evolved my business to be more of a cloud services brokerage model. This is coming from a place of really wanting my competitor, my MSP brethren, to do really well, to have so much success."…

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