The CSP Bible: Your Ultimate Handbook to the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Program

How much do you really know about the CSP? Ever since Microsoft introduced it in 2014, resellers have been told that the CSP will help them develop better relationships with their customers and increase their profits. But a lot of MSPs are wondering how it really works. They’d like to know which products they can sell under the CSP and which services they have to provide their customers. Can they work with Microsoft as a Direct Partner or, would it be easier to join forces with a CSP distributor as an Indirect Reseller? These are valid questions and it’s important you understand these points before you seriously consider this program. Our free eBook will put you on the right track.

Here are some of the topics we’ll cover:

  • Which products you can sell under the CSP
  • The difference between CSP Direct and Indirect
  • A reseller’s responsibilities under the Direct and Indirect business models
  • Four Keys to Success as a CSP reseller

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Your Guide to Surviving The End of Microsoft’s Advisor Program

Microsoft has pulled the plug on its advisor program

That's right. As of June 20, you won't be earning any commissions for reselling Office 365 as a Microsoft Advisor. And, you won't earn a single cent for managing Microsoft cloud subscriptions for your clients. Have you thought about what this means for your cloud business?

Here's what you'll learn:

  • How you can maintain your revenue
  • How easy it is to transfer your Office 365 clients
  • Why you should consider moving to the CSP Program
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Supercharging Your Enterprise Cloud Performance: Real World Customer Performance Example

Hyperconverged Performance Analysis for Real World Enterprise Applications

Enterprises want the simplicity and scalability of public cloud, with predictable costs for business-critical applications while also meeting high-performance SLAs for on-premises infrastructure. Hyperconverged technologies fit the defined evaluation criteria well, however needs have moved beyond cost-savings and simplicity to include performance, scalability and reliability, aspects of performance analysis that are particularly difficult to measure when shared resources are used throughout the platform.

Attend this TechBytes series presented by Slashdot Media and sponsored by Nutanix to learn about:

  • Hyperconverged buying criteria, and the role “hero” performance numbers should play in influencing buying decisions
  • The impact of hyperconverged infrastructure on achievable, real-world business-critical application performance, scalability and reliability
  • Hear from Nutanix customers on their business-critical performance expectations and achievements

Don’t wait – register now for this complimentary event series and learn what you need to know to deliver maximum performance for all your applications types.

About the presenters:
Marc Trouard-Riolle, Product Marketing Manager at Nutanix, wants to live in a world where business IT is freed from the shackles of vendor lock-in, with simple, scalable infrastructure and management, aligned with business objectives. Previously Marc has worked in the financial, insurance and legal verticals, in a variety of technical pre/post sales and consultancy roles. Native to London, England, Marc now lives in California with his wife and two children.

Benjamin Metcalf is the Systems Administrator for Faith Technologies. He has spent most of his adult life making sure the customers are always happy, and the last 12 years in Information Technology are no exception. He has earned several industry standard certifications in several different technologies. He has worked with several Fortune 100 companies in Wisconsin doing several types of deployment that spread across several different technologies. He started down the road of hyper-convergence that changed the way he thought about datacenters and implemented new systems, and it has also allowed him to test more workloads in much bigger spaces than originally were thought possible. He implemented Nutanix in 2016, and has been running and testing workloads on the environment since its implementation.

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Supercharging Your Enterprise Cloud Performance: Enterprise Application Performance Analysis

Hyperconverged Performance Analysis for Real World Enterprise Applications

Enterprises want the simplicity and scalability of public cloud, with predictable costs for business-critical applications while also meeting high-performance SLAs for on-premises infrastructure. Hyperconverged technologies fit the defined evaluation criteria well, however needs have moved beyond cost-savings and simplicity to include performance, scalability and reliability, aspects of performance analysis that are particularly difficult to measure when shared resources are used throughout the platform.

Attend this TechBytes series presented by Slashdot Media and sponsored by Nutanix to learn about:

  • Hyperconverged buying criteria, and the role “hero” performance numbers should play in influencing buying decisions
  • The impact of hyperconverged infrastructure on achievable, real-world business-critical application performance, scalability and reliability
  • Hear from Nutanix customers on their business-critical performance expectations and achievements

Don’t wait – register now for this complimentary event series and learn what you need to know to deliver maximum performance for all your applications types.

About the presenter:
Andy Daniel is a Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer at Nutanix, where he focuses on all-flash platforms, data efficiency, and performance. Prior to Nutanix, Andy was Principal Architect at PernixData. Throughout his career as a consultant, he's worked on a variety of mission-critical storage and virtualization projects for the world’s largest organizations. He is a vExpert, co-author of VMware vSphere 5 Administration Instant Reference, and has extensive experience in virtualization, datacenter networking, and storage.

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Supercharging Your Enterprise Cloud Performance: Understanding Performance Evaluation Criteria

Hyperconverged Performance Analysis for Real World Enterprise Applications

Enterprises want the simplicity and scalability of public cloud, with predictable costs for business-critical applications while also meeting high-performance SLAs for on-premises infrastructure. Hyperconverged technologies fit the defined evaluation criteria well, however needs have moved beyond cost-savings and simplicity to include performance, scalability and reliability, aspects of performance analysis that are particularly difficult to measure when shared resources are used throughout the platform.

Attend this TechBytes series presented by Slashdot Media and sponsored by Nutanix to learn about:

  • Hyperconverged buying criteria, and the role “hero” performance numbers should play in influencing buying decisions
  • The impact of hyperconverged infrastructure on achievable, real-world business-critical application performance, scalability and reliability
  • Hear from Nutanix customers on their business-critical performance expectations and achievements

Don’t wait – register now for this complimentary event series and learn what you need to know to deliver maximum performance for all your applications types.

About the presenter:
Marc Trouard-Riolle, Product Marketing Manager at Nutanix, wants to live in a world where business IT is freed from the shackles of vendor lock-in, with simple, scalable infrastructure and management, aligned with business objectives. Previously Marc has worked in the financial, insurance and legal verticals, in a variety of technical pre/post sales and consultancy roles. Native to London, England, Marc now lives in California with his wife and two children.

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Simplifying Remote and Branch Office (ROBO) IT with Nutanix Part 3: ROBO for Real – A Nutanix User Perspective

Managing remote and branch office IT can be a challenge for organizations of any size. Now, thanks to turnkey infrastructure from Nutanix, businesses can consolidate ROBO servers and storage onto a single Enterprise Cloud platform that can be deployed in just 30 to 60 minutes.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Nutanix to hear hyperconverged and Enterprise Cloud experts discuss how to eliminate the complexity of managing multiple remote sites with point products, while lowering overall IT costs. View this 3-part web series to learn how investing in the right ROBO solution can simplify IT with central management & control while maintaining optimal application experience and availability for branch office users.

Viewers will learn about:

  • Building lean, low-cost hyperconverged ROBO sites
  • Managing multiple ROBO sites centrally and with a single management interface
  • Seeing a live demonstration of how remote sites are managed with Nutanix Prism
  • Solving disaster recovery challenges cost effectively with localized backup, to the datacenter, or cloud
  • A real-world customer perspective on experiences with Nutanix ROBO solutions

Don’t wait – register now to view this TechBytes series and start on your path to ROBO IT simplification.

About the presenters:

Rachna Srivastava manages solutions marketing for a range of solutions, including ROBO at Nutanix. She has over 15 years of IT industry experience in networking, virtualization, cloud, and L4-L7 services across product management and marketing positions both in startups and large organizations. She brings an innovative approach to solving customer pain points with a strong track record of creating market-leading products.

Steve Bunch has worked in Corporate IT for over 10 years mainly focused on IT Architecture and BC/DR for a large manufacturing company with sites across the world. Steve recently joined Nutanix as a Systems Engineer covering Indiana after being a long time Nutanix customer. Steve has deep experience deploying Nutanix running business critical application utilizing Nutanix Metro Clusters and ROBO deployments.

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Simplifying Remote and Branch Office (ROBO) IT with Nutanix Part 2: Smooth Operations – Demonstration of Remote Site Management with Prism

Managing remote and branch office IT can be a challenge for organizations of any size. Now, thanks to turnkey infrastructure from Nutanix, businesses can consolidate ROBO servers and storage onto a single Enterprise Cloud platform that can be deployed in just 30 to 60 minutes.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Nutanix to hear hyperconverged and Enterprise Cloud experts discuss how to eliminate the complexity of managing multiple remote sites with point products, while lowering overall IT costs. View this 3-part web series to learn how investing in the right ROBO solution can simplify IT with central management & control while maintaining optimal application experience and availability for branch office users.

Viewers will learn about:

  • Building lean, low-cost hyperconverged ROBO sites
  • Managing multiple ROBO sites centrally and with a single management interface
  • Seeing a live demonstration of how remote sites are managed with Nutanix Prism
  • Solving disaster recovery challenges cost effectively with localized backup, to the datacenter, or cloud
  • A real-world customer perspective on experiences with Nutanix ROBO solutions

Don’t wait – register now to view this TechBytes series and start on your path to ROBO IT simplification.

About the presenter

Dwayne Lessner is a technical marketing engineer on the product marketing team at Nutanix, Inc. In this role, Dwayne helps design, test, and build solutions on top of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. Dwayne has worked in healthcare and oil and gas for over ten years in various roles. A strong background in server and desktop virtualization has given Dwayne the opportunity to work with many different applications frameworks and architecture. Dwayne has been a speaker at BriForum and various VMUG events and conferences and Co-Author of “Desktops as a Service: Building the Model”.

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Simplifying Remote and Branch Office (ROBO) IT with Nutanix Part 1: The Art of Freeing up Time

Managing remote and branch office IT can be a challenge for organizations of any size. Now, thanks to turnkey infrastructure from Nutanix, businesses can consolidate ROBO servers and storage onto a single Enterprise Cloud platform that can be deployed in just 30 to 60 minutes.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Nutanix to hear hyperconverged and Enterprise Cloud experts discuss how to eliminate the complexity of managing multiple remote sites with point products, while lowering overall IT costs. View this 3-part web series to learn how investing in the right ROBO solution can simplify IT with central management & control while maintaining optimal application experience and availability for branch office users.

Viewers will learn about:

  • Building lean, low-cost hyperconverged ROBO sites
  • Managing multiple ROBO sites centrally and with a single management interface
  • Seeing a live demonstration of how remote sites are managed with Nutanix Prism
  • Solving disaster recovery challenges cost effectively with localized backup, to the datacenter, or cloud
  • A real-world customer perspective on experiences with Nutanix ROBO solutions

Don’t wait – register now to view this TechBytes series and start on your path to ROBO IT simplification.

About the presenter

Dwayne Lessner is a technical marketing engineer on the product marketing team at Nutanix, Inc. In this role, Dwayne helps design, test, and build solutions on top of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. Dwayne has worked in healthcare and oil and gas for over ten years in various roles. A strong background in server and desktop virtualization has given Dwayne the opportunity to work with many different applications frameworks and architecture. Dwayne has been a speaker at BriForum and various VMUG events and conferences and Co-Author of “Desktops as a Service: Building the Model”.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant 2016

Mobile apps are at the front line of the digital revolution, and MADPs are becoming the main driver accelerating digital transformation in businesses. We evaluate the major vendors and key trends in this space to help IT leaders select platforms that best match their business and technical needs.

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Forrester report: 2016 Cloud Predictions

The next stage of IT will focus on expanding cloud use cases and infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals’ attitudes around automation and relinquishing some control. Read this Forrester brief to learn the 11 key developments coming to the world of cloud in 2016 and specific recommendations for I&O leaders.
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451 Research: Accelerating the Adoption of Multi-Cloud Strategy

The adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud is rapidly expanding, especially within enterprises. As IT evolves from productivity enhancer to transformative business differentiator, and as organizations embrace new models of IT consumption, the role of enterprise IT departments is changing. Forward-looking IT groups are becoming internal service brokers to their organizations and they are adopting a multi-cloud approach to enable an IT-as-a-service model.
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Evaluator Group: Investing Strategically in All Flash Arrays

For customers looking to implement flash for primary data center storge, NetApp's All Flash FAS systems offer some significant advantages over competiitve offerings. Customer can deploy All Flash FAS arrays for specific applications now and later extend them to private and hybrid cloud-based applications as enterprise IT's longer term strategy dictates. Read this technology insight paper on investing strategically in all flash arrays.
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Differentiating Between Personal and Enterprise Unified Communications

It used to be the case that enterprise communications systems provided more features than the communications people used in their personal lives. Think of voicemail, call forwarding, recording, and multiple lines vs. the single POTS line you had at home (we know, we’re dating ourselves). But now, in the Internet era, the tables seem to be turning, with the rate of innovation in personal communications far outstripping what is happening in the enterprise.
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