Managed Services Provider Strategies to Monetize Tech Trends: What Works Today?

It is no surprise that today’s savvy services providers (including MSPs) are looking for ways to leverage the major IT trends – Cloud, Mobility and Security – to both grow new business and deepen engagements with existing customers. The accelerating pace of network attacks and security breaches, the ubiquity of mobile devices and BYOD, and increased benefit of businesses of all sizes to shift to subscription-based IT services all translate to new business opportunities for VARs, SIs and services providers alike.

Part one of this three-part TechBytes series presented by Slashdot demonstrates how organizations like yours can stand out from the competition by delivering the higher value solutions clients want in the areas of Cloud Computing, Analytics, Mobile, Social and Security.

All three parts of this TechBytes series (Cloud, Mobility and Security) will deliver best practice guidance on how best to engage with your customers – and IBM – to craft tailored offerings that demonstrate your leadership in these key areas.

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This report explores that by choosing the right PaaS, an IT organization can align development and operations resources, ensuring that applications are deployed quickly, cost-effectively, and error-free.

For a network that better supports your cloud and brings the most value possible to your business, its design has to be considered in the early stages of cloud planning. Read the white paper "Networking for cloud computing" to discover specific networking considerations for public, private and hybrid clouds.

This high-level white paper explains how supporting cloud, analytics, mobile, social, and data security compute requirements while at the same time exploiting the opportunities they offer demands the power of high performance, agile, and cost efficient FlashSystem storage.

This white paper explains how an effective application security program can help organizations protect their assets in the cloud. It will also discuss how a secure-by-design approach to application security can help reduce risk across the IT infrastructure, in the cloud and beyond.

This report explores that security in a fast-paced technology-infused world cries for an “invest once and deploy everywhere” approach. For this to be realized, security must be planned in advance and built-in, yet still be fluidly adaptable to circumstances, and singularly controllable.

This analyst paper examines how Power architecture provides the scalability to leverage and support expanding needs of organizations to accommodate more users and more data.

This paper examines customer expectations regarding cloud storage, and how your choice of infrastructure impacts your ability to deliver on those expectations. Infrastructure can help differentiate your service and create value for your clients. Read tips on selecting the right storage infrastructure that addresses clients’ evolving and demanding needs for storing, protecting and accessing their data and how IBM XIV Storage can address the needs of today’s services providers.

In today's increasingly social world, the ability to collaborate with coworkers, business partners and even clients is taking on more importance. How are tools like mobile collaboration and file sharing impacting the way we work? What is top of mind for collaborators today, and what is the cloud's impact on social business? This SlashGuide discusses the results of a recent Slashdot Media survey bringing these issues to light.