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New Abiquo Educational Series Helps MSPs Build Cloud Services Business
Series will Educate MSPs on Strategies for Converging Cloud Computing with Traditional Managed IT Services
Redwood City, Calif. – February 24, 2011 – Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software company, today announced the launch of a new series of educational webinars designed to help Managed Service Providers (MSPs) integrate cloud computing into their service offerings and build a successful managed cloud services business. The “Manage the Cloud for Success” webinar series, presented by MSPAlliance and MSPexcellence, will deal with the most pressing issues confronting MSPs as they consider the impact of cloud computing on their businesses.
The series will cover topics such as managed services market opportunity for cloud services, cloud management technologies for MSPs, application examples and effective go-to-market strategies. Each webinar will be devoted to a specific topic and will include the perspectives of industry expert Charles Weaver, president of the MSPAlliance as well as panelists Todd Hussey and Dave Zwicker, co-founders of MSPexcellence.
“The convergence of cloud computing with remotely managed IT services is one of the most important and difficult challenges faced by managed service providers today,” said Charles Weaver, president and CEO of the MSPAlliance. “Providing an overview of the key technologies and business strategies that will enable them to profit from the cloud will enable them to effectively evaluate how they can capitalize on the opportunity offered by cloud computing. This educational program will serve as a catalyst for that discussion.”
The first webinar in the Manage the Cloud for Success series, to be held on April 20, 2011 at 1pm EST will cover five critical success factors for converging cloud and managed services. These factors include creating a formal strategic plan, developing a profitable business model, building an effective marketing machine, managing a predictable sales process and continuously measuring success. Panelists from MSPexcellence will present a formula for achieving these success factors with strategies published in the Abiquo Cloud Accelerator Playbook, a resource provided to the company’s MSP partners. The playbook guides MSPs through the development of a profitable and scalable cloud services business with effective sales and marketing strategies, best practices for pricing and packaging cloud services, and worksheets and templates that provide step-by-step guidance for providing managed cloud services based on Abiquo technology.
“MSPAlliance represents the gold standard of performance for managed service providers around the world,” said Pete Malcolm, Abiquo CEO. “We believe our approach to cloud management will strongly resonate with this elite class of MSPs as we continue to build momentum as the leading business and technology enabler of managed cloud services.”
The MSPAlliance has established a global association of 10,000 members and offers a framework for educating and certifying MSPs who, with honesty, integrity and professionalism, provide secure, reliable and cost-effective services to their customers. Abiquo is sponsoring this educational webinar series as a component of its Cloud Accelerator Program, recently announced with MSPexcellence. In addition to a recruiting phase, the Cloud Accelerator Program combines cloud management technology with business-building strategies that allow MSPs to ramp-up and scale their service portfolio with managed cloud services.
For more information on the webinar series, please visit http://www.mspexcellence.com/events.aspx.
About the MSPAlliance
The MSPAlliance is the world’s largest Professional Association and Accrediting Body for the Managed Services Industry. As such, we make sure that every one of our members adheres to a strict code of ethics; which means a great deal to the IT Business Consumer. The MSPAlliance is made up of over 10,000 providers worldwide, working together in a vendor-neutral manner to define and promote the Managed Services industry by educating consumers on the benefits of using Managed Service Providers. For nearly 10 years, the MSPAlliance has been the only unified voice for the Managed Services Industry, and the only organization that promotes the highest level of professionalism, reliability and integrity. For more information about the MSPAlliance please visit www.mspalliance.com or call 530-891-1340
About Abiquo
Abiquo is the Enterprise Cloud Management software company. With Abiquo, organizations can use Business Policy to manage an entire, globally deployed, computing infrastructure comprising unlimited physical and Cloud resources including private, public and hybrid Clouds through a “single pane of glass”. As a result, Abiquo customers are able to significantly decrease the cost and complexity of managing their virtual IT environments, while maintaining control of the physical infrastructure and increasing agility to change hypervisors as needed. For more information, visit www.abiquo.com.
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