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To succeed in an evolving server market resellers must package up hardware and services to sell a complete solution. Amro Gebreel reports. The days when a reseller could just pitch up and sell hardware are a distant memory for most, with the server market changing along with many other areas of the industry.
These days, the hardware still sells, but the emphasis is on a solution. Resellers need to be aware of how the technology is going to be used and the potential additional software and infrastructure support that customers will need to access. Get those right, and sure enough there is a fairly wide opportunity for the channel.
Read more on MicroScope.co.uk.
by Aneel Baqar l May 8, 2012 l No Comments »
Amazon and its business partners produce a continual stream of summits, seminars, webinars and other events promoting the use and understanding of Amazon Web Services. These events are scattered all around the world, in cities such as NYC, Chennai and Seoul.
An AWS traveling theatre arrived in London recently so I headed down there to hear what they had to say. Would the event be an Amazon infomercial, distributed computing theory, or industry news on the state of the cloud?
The venue was the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, London. It’s just around the corner from Big Ben and the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the heart of the British government. This is the area where Victorian captains of industry ruled the British Empire. Now the new captains of industry are just passing through on their world tour (next stop: Melbourne).
The AWS London event was actually two separate events on two consecutive days, aimed at two types of customer.
- Event 1: AWS Cloud for Start-Ups & Developers, where Amazon architects demonstrated solutions to the nerds.
- Event 2: Cloud Computing for the Enterprise, where Amazon chiefs powerpointed the suits.
At the beginning of each event, the events staff in the Central Hall dished out name badges, pastries and drinks in the reception hall to a crowd of a couple hundred people. A few AWS partner booths are on the borders of the room, but it’s a token effort – this is no big exhibition with a footfall of thousands.
Read more on TechRepublic.
by Aneel Baqar l May 1, 2012 l No Comments »
ICT services firm Joskos Solutions has moved into the cloud through partnerships with CentraStage and RedStor that allow it to centralise and improve IT management for 200 schools.
The company will work with CentraStage’s cloud-based software to remotely monitor, manage and support thousands of devices across the schools’ networks, delivering accurate, efficient and cost-effective IT support. Using Redstor’s remote back-up system it will also provide an automated, online back-up and recovery service that automatically protects data across devices in the schools’ networks.
Read more on ICT for Education.
by Aneel Baqar l April 26, 2012 l No Comments »
CRN Sales and Marketing awards are brand new, and will take place on 21st June 2012, at the Royal Garden Hotel London. The awards are focused on the UK IT channel industry and are aimed at recognise and reward those involved.
CentraStage has been short listed for Best New Business Win under the Reseller Categories.
View the shortlist and details of the awards.
by James Fletcher l April 16, 2012 l No Comments »
CentraStage
has successfully shifted its managed services software platform into the Amazon Web Services cloud. Next up: A CentraStage freemium software initiative that may allow small MSPs to engage more small business customers. CentraStage CEO Christian Nagele offered MSPmentor a glimpse at the strategy to day.
Based in Europe, CentraStage has aggressively expanded its managed services software footprint into the U.S. market over the past year. Kaseya veteran Sean O’Connell invested in CentraStage last year, and the company has since grown its headcount to about 30 people, up from about 12 in late 2010 or early 2011.
“Just because we’re small doesn’t mean we’re limited in our ambition,” said Nagele. “We had a massive year in 2011. We completed that small fundraiser in March 2011 and it was a crazy nine months after that.”
by admin l March 14, 2012 l No Comments »