Editor's Notebook

71. Ingram Micro VTN: State Of The Market 4/12/2011
    By Gennifer Biggs, security, storage, and managed services editor
    One of my favorite presentations at the Ingram Micro VTN Invitational events is the State of the Market from Gartner analyst Tiffani Bova. How she manages to pack so much information into a 20-minute talk is a constant wonder to me, and I'll do my best to share the best of her presentation with you here.
72. Ingram Micro VTN: Overcast With Cloud 4/12/2011
    By Gennifer Biggs, security, storage, and managed services editor
    If you followed the news out of last month’s Cisco partner event in New Orleans, you won’t be surprised that the message from that long-time Ingram Micro partner was all about cloud. Ralph Nimergood, VP of worldwide channels for data center, virtualization, and cloud go-to-market for Cisco (no, I didn’t make that title up … ) talked almost exclusively about Cisco’s cloud strategy when he took the stage at the Ingram Micro VTN Invitational in Chicago on Monday, April 11.
73. Ingram Micro VTN: What’s 2011 Going To Bring? 4/11/2011
    By Gennifer Biggs, security, storage, and managed services editor
    The theme of this week's Ingram Micro VTN Invitational in Chicago is simple: The Future Is Ours. CEO of Ingram Micro Greg Spierkel expounded on that theme for the nearly 700 VTN attendees on Monday morning, April 11, as part of his welcome speech.
74. The Amazing Race To Help Others 4/11/2011
    By Gennifer Biggs, security, storage, and managed services editor
    The Ingram Micro VTN Invitational kicked off late Sunday evening, April 10, in Chicago with a reminder about how lucky most of the attendees are.
75. 5 Tips For MSPs: What Cloud Services Are In Demand By SMBs 4/8/2011
    By Gennifer Biggs, security, storage, and managed services editor
    With all the buzz about cloud rolling over into 2011, it seems one of the biggest questions out there is where and how to sell cloud solutions to the SMB market, a common target for MSPs. Experts at OS33, a cloud-based IT-as-a-Service platform for MSPs, offer these 5 tips to help MSPs demonstrate the value of cloud-based IT offerings to SMBs.
76. How Do You Rate? 4/6/2011
    By Gennifer Biggs, security, storage, and managed services editor
    As I prepare to hit the road with a trip to the Ingram Micro VTN Invitational event in Chicago next week, I had the opportunity to participate in some prep work by the event keynote speaker, author Marcus Buckingham.
77. Survey Says! What Kind Of Business Model Do You Use? 3/21/2011
    GFI MAX is curious: what kind of business model do you use?
78. Webinar: How To Price Your Cloud Offering 3/21/2011
    Whenever a new technology trend comes along, one challenge for MSPs is pricing and bundling that solution for managed services customers.
    
79. Time To Ask The Midmarket: Got Virtualization? 3/16/2011
    By Gennifer Biggs, security, storage, and managed services
    If you remember, a few months back I spoke with Andi Mann, VP of virtualization product marketing for CA Technologies when he threw out seven virtualization trends to watch this year in his blog, including "virtual stall," the tendency for virtualization deployments to slow or stop as they get larger and more complex.
80. Rackspace Unveils Enhanced, Unified Partner Program 3/1/2011
    It is always of interest when a vendor rolls out enhancements to its partner program, and such is the case with Rackspace, a vendor specializing in the hosting and cloud computing industry. Business Solutions editor Gennifer Biggs talked with Sean McCaffery, director of worldwide operations for Rackspace, about the enhancements to the Rackspace partner program after the new program structure was announced on March 1.