16 Dec 2020 – The Managed Services Year in Review
It's time for the annual managed services year in review. 2020 will be a historic year, not just because we had a global pandemic. The managed services profession achieved some...
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10 Dec US IT Job Losses Mean Big Opportunities for MSPs in 2021
The United States lost 8,300 IT jobs in November. The loss follows IT jobs gains of 27,300 over the preceding three months of August through October. The results come from...
24 Nov Datto Q3 Financials Shows Managed Services Strength
Datto just issued their Q3 2020 financial results. The newly public company now required to disclose financial statements every quarter provides us with more insight into the RMM market and...
11 Nov Has the Pandemic Impacted Managed Services Investment?
As we begin to wind down a tumultuous year, we need to look back at 2020 and ask ourselves whether investments into the managed services profession were negatively impacted this...
04 Nov Managed Services Change is Coming Due to Datto IPO
Last week's initial public offering (IPO) for Datto has broader consequences for the global managed services profession. Most of these consequences are good. Let's examine what some of them are. ...
27 Oct The Managed Services Standard of Care
Is there an MSP standard of care? Standards of care exist in other professions like medical, legal, etc. But, do they exist in the managed services profession? In today's episode, we...
03 Aug Managed Services 2020 Mid-Year Review
It is time to review the first 6 months of 2020 and evaluate precisely how the global managed services community has been doing. While we have a lot of useful...
13 Jul Is There a Future for the Amateur MSP?
During the early years of managed services, many VARs and break/fix companies went through a necessary decision-making process on whether to leave their current business models and become MSPs. The...