Jessica Davis

Kaseya, the provider of IT management software to MSPs, is in a critical position after longtime CEO Fred Voccola said he was stepping aside.

Companies such as Sherweb, Thread and Senteon went out of their way to stand out in the crowd in the Kaseya Connect 2025 Expo Hall.

It's been a year since MSP veteran Jim Lippie launched consulting firm Clarity Channel Advisors with the mission of helping managed service providers transition to a profitable cloud-first model. Here's a look at the milestones hit and lessons …

Talkin' Cloud has released the 2105 edition of its ranking of the world's top 100 cloud service providers, aggregators and brokers. The companies that comprise the 2015 TC 100 list generated more than $30 billion in cloud services revenue, an …

The MSP management platform provides a cost-effective solution for MSPs that need help desk management, SLAs, contract management, billing, ticketing and a strong mobile interface for field technicians, according to JP Jauvin, SolarWinds N-able …

The consolidation in the managed services platform space over the last few years has certainly led to a new era as the industry matures. A side benefit of consolidation has been a new view inside the market performance of some of these remote …

IT service provider Platte River Networks has found itself in the middle of the controversy over former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of shadow IT systems – using personal email for communications that pertained to government …

Francois Daumard has faced an interesting challenge since joining AVG in December 2014. The company is a giant in the consumer IT security business for antivirus software with hundreds of millions users total. The brand recognition is great, but for …

Google (GOOG) founder Larry Page has announced in a blog post today that he and his co-founder Sergey Brin have formed a new company called Alphabet that will serve as a holding company for the organization’s many companies and initiatives. How big …

MSPmentor caught up with Autotask's top executives to talk about the company's plan to acquire file sync and share provider Soonr. Here's what they told us. Autotask’s announced acquisition of file sync and share platform provider Soonr last week …

Autotask today announced plans to acquire Soonr, a San Jose, California-based provider of file synchronization sharing services with competitors that include Dropbox, Box.com, eFolder and Google Drive. The move marks the second acquisition for the …

Solarwinds CEO Kevin Thompson: "We believe that opportunity exists to create a very large and fast-growing business in the MSP market and plan to increase our focus in investment in this area of our business." Solarwinds will buy back shares of …

Microsoft (MSFT)'s Q4 earnings this week included details about its cloud revenue growth and cloud user growth. But are they growing at the same rate? Here's a look at the details. Microsoft (MSFT) suffered a net loss of $3.195 billion for Q4 on …

Data center operator, CenturyLink, which announced managed cloud services last year, has provided an update on its data center expansion efforts. The moves mean more capacity for customers. Here are the details. Data center operator CenturyLink (CTL) …

Channel veterans Ted Roller and Brian Sherman are hanging out the shingle as they launch a new consulting firm designed to act as a “virtual channel chief” (VCC) to technology vendor companies, providing deep custom assessments advice to help …

Microsoft (MSFT) is opening its Surface tablet reseller program to more channel partners, the company announced at its Worldwide Partner Conference today. The move continues the company's phased approach to bring Surface to VARs and other IT solution …

Microsoft (MSFT) has opened up its programs, giving its Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners, free rein to offer all the company’s solutions and services through the program. The new rules let CSP partners offer the company's entire portfolio of …

Fred Voccola is Kaseya's new CEO as Yogesh Gupta moves into the chairman role. So just who is Voccola, and where does he plan to take the RMM provider next? We caught up with him during his first official week on the job and asked him that question. …

Yogesh Gupta who joined Kaseya as CEO two years ago is stepping into the chairman's role to make room for a new top executive. Two years after he took the helm of remote monitoring and management provider Kaseya, Yogesh Gupta is moving into the …

Another week, another acquisition of a channel-focused company. Cisco Systems (CSCO), fresh off last week's announcement of its deal to buy OpenDNS, has today announced it will purchase cloud-based software platform vendor MaintenanceNet for $139 …