September 14th 2019
MSP & MSSP Industry Notes
Accenture Acquires Pragsis Bidoop, Boosting AI Capabilities, Big Data Portfolio and Talent
- Pragis Bidoop founded in 2004 in Spain, operates in big data and AI markets. Offers innovation data solutions
- Accenture is a global professional services company, servers 6,000 clients in 102 countries. Employees 482,000 worldwide and two hundred offices in 52 countries
Bespin Global Receives 'Google Cloud Platform Managed Services Provider' partner status
- Bespin Global Corporation headquartered in Soul, South Korea, global cloud management company
- Holds over 100 plus Google Cloud certifications in Korea and China
- First Asian Pacific headquartered partner to achieve Premier Partner and Managed Services Provider with Google Cloud
- Bespin Global is an end-to-end cloud IT company dually head-quartered in Beijing and Seoul.
Cisco Awards Carousel Industries the Highest Certification Level in its Customer Experience
- Carousel located in Exeter, Rhode Island, national IT provider with managed services and cloud provider
- Carousel is one of only a small number of Cisco partners nationwide to receive Customer Experience Certification
- Achievement of the Advanced Level Specialization Certification in Cisco’s Customer Experience Specialization Program
- Employees 1,300
Vaco Continues Exponential Growth with Expansion into Montréal
- Vaco headquartered in Nashville, TN. Founded in 2002, has 1,000 employees
- Prvides “boutique” level of service with global reach for executive search permanent placement and strategic staffing
- Markest include accounting, finance, technology, healthcare IT, operations, admin and international managed services
Vision33 Completes Acquisition of SAP Gold Partner, B1 Systems
- Vision 33 located in London, England. Global IT professional services consultancy
- Privately owned with more than 65,000 clients
- Offers SAP Business One
- Runs on the SAP HANA platform. SAP Business One used in over 150 countries, deployed on Premise
- "This acquisition brings a host of talent to Vision33 in the UK, supporting our goal to transform businesses and ensure they experience value from having the right technology, implemented the right way.” States Neil Feingold, Managing Director of Vision 33
TierPoint Introduces 'Connect Point' Resource
- TierPoint located in Saint Louis, MO. Provider of secure, connected data center and cloud solutions
- Launches Connect Point which is a online resource that facilitates multi-dimensional searches for capabilities and connectivity options across TierPoint’s footprint of 40 plus edge date centers
- Has over 40 world-class data centersin 20 U.S. markets and 8 multi-tenant cloud pods, connected by a coast-to-coast network.
Hargray To Acquire Infinity Network Solutions
- Hargay Communications located in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
- Founded in 1949, regional telecommunications that provides advanced communications and entertainment services in southeastern United States
- "By partnering with Hargray, we strengthen Infinity's place as the premier IT services company in the communities we serve while also pursuing a better future for our clients, partners and staff.” Brian Betzel, President of Infinity
- Infinity to keep operations in Macon and Covington
- Infinity offers information technology and solutions to small to mid-size businesses throughout the state of Georgia
NEXVORTEX INTRODUCES MANAGED CONNECT: IMPROVING GROUND-TO-CLOUD CONNECTIVITY
- NEXVORTEX located in Herndon, Virginia. Offers cloud communications along with SIP Trunking and Hosted Voice
- Introduces new service Manage Connect (Connect), a purpose-built SD-WAN solution for small to medium business market place
- Uses patent-pending QAV technology to improve cloud experience
- Wes Rogers COO and Founder states: “mConnect and the underlying technology is very exciting, very cool. It addresses a pain point that many small business owners have today and moves nexVortex into a central role in the user’s operations.”
TMC Names TPx a 2019 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award Winner
- TPx located in Los Angeles, California. Provides managed IT services and managed connectivity to approximately 30,000 clients
- TMC is a global integrated media company that offers education, industry news, live events and social influence to global buyers
- “We’re honored to be recognized by TMC as a 2019 Communications Solutions Product of the Year,” said David Zahn, Senior VP Marketing at TPx
- TPx complete provides bundle managed IT services
- UCx Hosted Unified Communications as a Service
- Virtual Fax
- MSx Managed SD-WAN
- Managed 4G LTE Failover
- MSx Managed Firewall
- MSx Managed Endpoints
Wipro Positioned as Global Market Leader in Digital Workplace Services by ISG
- Global information technology company located in New Brunswick, NJ and Bangalore, India
- Recognized as Market Leader in Digital Workplace Services by ISG
- Wipro employees more then 175,000 employees across six continents
- Kiran Desai, Senior Vice President and Global Head, Cloud and Infrastructure Services, Wipro Limited said, “We are excited to be positioned as a ‘Leader’ in ISG’s report. It is a testament to our workplace consulting capabilities, our industry leading offerings such as LiVE Workspace™ and VirtuaDesk™, our investments in next generation workplace automation platforms like Wipro HOLMES™ and our strong partner eco system.
SES to Deliver Cloud-enabled Solutions
- SES world leading satellite operator with more than 70 satellites in two different orbits
- Provides clients with global video distribution and data connectivity services
- Offers new Cloud-based managed services
Small and Medium Sized Businesses Prefer Cloud-First Print Management with Edge Computing
- Y Soft Corporation releases data from global independent survey for cloud and cloud-based print management for small and medium sized businesses
- Y Soft develops intelligent Digital Transformation office solutions for enterprise, SMB and Education that empower employees to be more productive and creative.
- Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in Brno, Czech Republic, with offices in North and Latin America, Europe and Middle East/Africa (EMEA) and the Asia Pacific region (APAC).
- Public cloud application use is ubiquitous – 93% of SMBs use public cloud applications, typically Microsoft® Office 365 or similar
- 50% of SMBs have a cloud-first preference and 10% will only use cloud applications
- Security is a concern for SMBs across all applications; 52% cited security as a top concern whereas 61% cited it as a top concern for cloud-based print management
- S.-based companies and companies with more than 50 printers, are the most bullish on cloud-based print management. Over all respondents, 29% are planning to purchase cloud-based print management services within the next 12 months.
- 35% of SMBs already use edge computing and 56% prefer cloud print management services used with an edge device in place.
- The edge device as described in the survey would enable print jobs to be processed locally on the company’s network.
- Considering SMB’s concern for cloud-based print management security, (61%), this indicates that the additional security peace of mind that comes with edge computing and its other benefits are desired.
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