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Channel Happy Hour Episode 87 – It’s hard out there for an MSP

NPD is reporting decent growth in hardware
It’s time to pay attention to what Oracle’s up to in the cloud
Presidio has on off quarter, Everything as a Service is partly to blame
Dell EMC News
More on Xerox
Carbonite acquires Mozy

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Channel Happy Hour Show Notes – Episode 87

NPD is reporting decent growth in hardware, especially in certain sectors.  So it would seem that not all the growth in it is happening in the cloud?

https://wp.me/p9oCBy-9A

It’s time to pay attention to what Oracle’s up to in the cloud. They are basically making a play to turn IT into one big massive managed service provided by them.

https://devops.com/oracle-unveils-autonomous-cloud-service/

ChannelE2E has a write up on Presidio, which reported its earnings last week and had an 8.3% dip in revenue for the quarter.  Part of it was blamed on the transition to a recurring revenue model.  

https://www.channele2e.com/news/presidio-earnings-highlight-cloud-subscription-service-transitions/

After a major reorg at Dell EMC, the company this week injected some much needed flexibility into its converged infrastructure platform.

www.futuriom.com/articles/news/dell-emc-unveils-flexible-ci-platform/2018/02

This comes on the heels of a recent chat we had with Trey Layton, now senior vice president for engineering for Dell EMC Converged Infrastructure.

https://channelhappyhour.com/2018/01/22/channel-happy-hour-episode-79-future-hyper-convergence-2018/

And let’s talk Xerox, because, well we can never get enough Xerox news.

https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/300099291/icahn-and-deason-to-investors-xerox-channel-conflict-hurting-partner-margins-diluting-differentiation.htm

Carbonite acquires Mozy cloud service for data protection from Dell to broaden portfolio.

https://channelhappyhour.com/2018/02/15/carbonite-details-strategy-acquiring-mozy-dell/

It sucks to be an MSP

http://smartermsp.com/alert-fatigue-takes-heavy-toll-mssps/

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