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Read MoreIn the past year, BitTitan has supported an increasing number of tenant-to-tenant migrations as companies implement plans to consolidate or segregate
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Read MoreSecurity analysts are calling it a wake-up call – the news from Microsoft on March 2 couldn't be more alarming: Attacks targeting unpatched Exchange s
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Read MoreOffice 365 Tenant Migrations: Best Practices is a three-part series on Bits & Bytes featuring expert advice from Nero Blanco, an IT service provid
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Read MoreThis article originally appeared in Channel Partners. It’s valuable to think about what 2019 is likely to bring as we take stock of the major events
Read MoreRecently, a group of companies that support MSPs — including BitTitan — teamed up with Osterman Research. The objective was to learn about the needs o
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Read MoreYou've heard it over and over: Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) is the ultimate goal. The holy grail. The most important business model holding the att
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Read MoreThis is the seventh installment in a new series on the BitTitan blog, “The Complete MSP,” built to help IT professionals stay ahead of the Azure curve
Read MoreThis post has good news and bad news. Let’s get the bad out of the way first. Microsoft is raising the commercial price of its perpetually-licensed Of
Read MoreThis is the fifth installment in a new series on the BitTitan blog, “The Complete MSP,” built to help IT professionals stay ahead of the Azure curve a
Read MoreThis is the fourth installment in a new series on the BitTitan blog, “The Complete MSP,” built to help IT professionals stay ahead of the Azure curve
Read More“Digital transformation” is arguably one of the most buzzed about buzz phrases in technology – in existence, perhaps. But, what does it really mean? A
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Read MoreEvery self-appointed expert sings the praises of Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). There’s no doubt it’s great to sell once and get paid every month fo
Read MoreThis is the second installment in a new series on the BitTitan blog, “The Complete MSP,” built to help IT professionals stay ahead of the Azure curve
Read MoreThis is the first installment of a new series on the BitTitan blog, "The Complete MSP," built to help IT professionals stay ahead of the Azure curve a
Read MoreHeading into 2018, we knew M&A activity in the managed service provider space was going to continue gaining speed. But this market consolidation i
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Read MoreThis article originally posted on Channel Futures. Automation is the name of the game in today's IT world. If you're an MSP and are missing out on opp
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Read MoreThis month, we partnered with Melissa Mulholland, Cloud Profitability Lead at Microsoft, to help partners succeed with the Microsoft CSP program and b
Read MoreThis month, we’re focusing on Cloud Profitability. BitTitan partnered with Sam Restifo, Microsoft MSP Business Development Lead for the APAC region,
Read MoreUpdate: Elevate '17 was a great success! Want to be the first to hear about Elevate '18? Sign up here. On October 16, BitTitan partners will gather in
Read MoreWith the advent of the hybrid cloud, enterprise customers saw a valuable opportunity to integrate their on-premises data center with cheaper, Agile im
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Read MoreStarting soon, right here on ModernMSP, we'll be doing a bi-weekly series called The Evolution Of IT Services Providers. The series traces the evoluti
Read MoreIt’s the hard truth that most value-added resellers (VARs) and Solution Providers (SPs) fail to acknowledge and then ultimately take too long to addre
Read More2017 is the year of marketing. The year when technology, customer experience, personalization and cooperation come of age. For we marketers it’s an ex
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Read MoreReselling licenses does not yield a high-value business. Let's say you've been reselling XaaS apps licenses at $50 per user per year with a 20% re
Read MoreAt BitTitan, if you ask one of our developers how long it will take to fix something, a popular answer is “two hours or six days.” It’s harder to conv
Read MoreThe cloud is not keeping ITSPs from being more profitable. A new ModernMSP article by George Mellor, President and CEO of KloudReadiness, points out
Read MoreGartner predicts that by 2020, a corporate "no-cloud" policy will be as rare as a "no-Internet" policy is today. What else is trending up? Competition
Read MoreWe’ve said it again and again: one-off, project-based revenue won’t sustain profitability in the cloud era. It’s time to walk the walk, but you don’t
Read MoreThis is the second installment of our marketing essentials recap for the modern MSP, looking at the final three of six articles by Saher Ghattas from
Read MoreAs the new year approaches, are you thinking about how to modernize your sales and marketing efforts? Saher Ghattas, a sales and marketing expert for
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Read MoreKnowing where to start can be just as difficult as knowing where to go. We’re constantly trying to become better at what we do and how we do it. For a
Read MoreHappy Halloween! Or is it? We share a lot of success stories here. We love to focus on new ideas that help MSPs and bring them to life. But great idea
Read MoreThe cloud has brought about a new era for selling IT services, and it asks a lot of providers. Say it with me: caveat venditor. Okay, I don’t speak La
Read MoreIf you want to take your business to the next level it is essential to attach managed services to your offerings through automation. Learn how three M
Read MoreA ModernMSP is always looking for more sustainable and adaptive solutions that can transform their business. Don’t get stuck in the past by simply res
Read MoreAre you just doing migrations and stopping there? If so, you are missing out on valuable opportunities to make the cloud profitable. Modern MSPs incre
Read MoreHow do you mix people and automated processes? You help them work together. For our partners, automation is an opportunity to maximize resources and h
Read MoreAutomation effects every aspect of your business. It can help bring down the cost of service delivery for your customers. It can help you scale your b
Read MoreIn a recent article, cloud and tech guru Todd Hussey explained the importance of understanding the Cost of Customer Acquisition (COC) when growing you
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Read MoreAll processes start as manual ones. OK, that may not actually be true, but when you’re tackling a task for the first time, you probably don’t know tha
Read MoreThe cloud. Either you’re already embracing it as an IT consultant or Microsoft partner, or you know you should and haven’t had the time to make a stra
Read MoreThere’s a constant shift in what it means to be a managed service provider (or a modern MSP). That’s understandable: customers’ needs are shifting, an
Read MoreThe Value of 24/7 Help Desk So, you want to provide 24/7 help desk support to your customers? You’re not alone. Offering help desk for your customer
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