3rd All-Stars edition tomorrow -
Each fall, Channelpro-SMB asks his readers and a panel of experts from outside to name the SMB technology providers of the most interesting and least appreciated of the world in a range of key product categories. And every year, we receive the most notable suggestions that we can not fit.
This year is no exception. Want a glimpse of superstar of tomorrow vendors? Read on.
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CentraStage
The Internet things can be even more concept than a reality for most companies at present, but CentraStage UK will be ready when it happens. The RMM solution cloud business which, it can be installed in as little as 60 seconds, followed not only PCs, servers, smartphones and tablets, but just about any other gadget you can connect to a network as well. Under CentraStage simple pricing system, buyers pay a flat monthly price for each of these devices, regardless of type or platform. www.centrastage.com
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AffinityLive Inc.
the software-as-a-service solution PSA the San Francisco company is a good fit for channel pros who value flexibility. Partners can mix and match alone modules for the customer, project, notes and management contracts, or deploy the entire platform as a complete unit. Eiger Creative LLC, an MSP in Bristol, Conn., Uses two modules now, but Richard Munger, company director, likes to know that tacking on more simple. "All the components are integrated, which makes the prospect of adding service at a later date," he said. So also the low price, which starts at $ 5 per user per month for individual modules or $ 34 per user per month for the entire suite. www.affinitylive.com
Vorex Inc.
The depth of the ambition of the Plano, Texas, the company to be a serious competitor in the PSA market is became clear in September, when it announced the hiring of longtime coach Stuart Selbst managed services business as its new Chief operating Officer. The hosted solution now oversees Selbst has been carefully designed for maximum simplicity, right down to the pricing model, which has a per-user, per month rate for each of the three editions of the product at no cost to installation, use, or cancellation, and no data limit. There are also no long-term commitment to worry, because all contracts are monthly. www.vorex.com.
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Arganteal Corp.
Looking for a way to squeeze a little more room for Office 365 offers? Invest less time and overhead in deployment could be the answer. Arganteal, Austin, Texas, is a "deployment automation compiler" that simplifies every step of the implementation process Office 365. According satisfied users as Manny Lloyd, CEO and president of the company NC Wilmington, Manuel W . Lloyd Consulting, the results are the deployments that take hours rather than months. "That to me a significant amount of money is," says Lloyd. Www.arganteal.com
Attached Apps
This is another good way to boost your Office 365 gains. This Bellevue, Wash., the flagship product of the company allows Office 365 users (as well as editions of Exchange and Outlook website) share a common pool of contacts. Two additional offers add functionality for collaborative management sales pipelines and customer interactions. resellers receive 20 percent of the user's subscription fees in the first year and 10 percent per year thereafter. Although this is not likely to generate torrents additional income given the modest price Apps attached loads, the three systems are easy add-on sales that can give a little boost, but welcome to the otherwise meager contracts. www.attachedapps.com
CloudFounders, Inc. Gridstore and scale Computing
All three of these companies are private cloud-in-a-box solutions that combine networking, storage, and virtualization into a single uniform package, and all three are sold exclusively through the channel. This, however, is where the similarities.
Indianapolis-based product Scale Computing, called HC3, comes with proprietary hardware running an operating system based on Linux. Both CloudFrames vRun, Belgian CloudFounders cloud-based providers, and Gridstore, Mountain View, Calif.-based Gridstore are fully software-defined solutions that run on x86 server hardware product.
Each solution also uses a different hypervisor. The scale of the product runs on the open source KVM hypervisor, while for now at least the CloudFounders solution only supports VMware ESX, and Gridstore system only supports Microsoft Hyper-V.
Ray Lucchesi, president of Silverton Consulting Inc., a consulting firm storage in Broomfield, Colo., Admire the courage of the strategy of the Microsoft hypervisor oriented Gridstore. Private cloud and convergent infrastructure providers typically focus initially on the platform market leader VMware and Hyper-V add the media later, if necessary. "By taking on Hyper-V First, they may have a more difficult market to penetrate because Windows Storage Server is already a dominant player in this space," says Lucchesi. www.cloudframesvrun.com, www.gridstore.com, www.scalecomputing.com
Smartsheet.com Inc.
Most project management applications were originally designed with PCs in mind. Bellevue, Wash.-based Smartsheet.com the solution, however, was designed from the ground up for mobile computing touchscreen, so it is extremely simple to learn and use, according to Christopher Chute, Vice-President research in the global SMB Cloud & Mobility research practice at analyst firm IDC. "They use the cloud and mobile single front ends to make management easier for the project to deploy line-of-business users who do not have computer training," said Fall. Www.smartsheet.com
Zynstra Ltd.
If you still have clients running Windows Server 2003 and Small Business Server 2003, Zynstra UK is a name you should know that support for Microsoft products ends next June, and the cloud SMB server apparatus managed Zynstra sent a good upgrade option. Equipped with everything you need to run a full hybrid cloud infrastructure, the system has not yet available in North America as of press time, but Zynstra plans to start selling on these shores soon. www.zynstra.com
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