Managed Services
Whether looking to add capability or shift some of the IT burden, Manage Services delivered via a qualified Provider can be transformative for organizations of all sizes and extremely helpful for specific industries. The pressure to stay up-to-date with the latest technology is real, as is the intensely competitive hiring market for qualified experts. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) deliver the finest expertise, greater insights, and the benefit of predictable monthly costs.
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Why Managed Services Just Make Sense
Infrastructure
The demands of dispersed, infrastructure-intensive Voice & Data Networks are intense and continue to grow. By adopting a variety of solutions offered “as-a-Service” (from Managed Service Providers), organizations gain flexibility while also ensuring the latest technology — one less variable in a quickly changing world.
Expertise
The demand for quality IT experts is hot and only getting hotter – from the most rudimentary entry-level positions through to upper-echelon CIO, CSO, and CISO positions. Managed Service Providers can fill requirements right across the spectrum, whether to fill a position or as a solution to deliver on a particular objective.
Cybersecurity
Never let organizational Cybersecurity be an afterthought. The level of service, in addition to or in place of in-house efforts, offered by specialty firms can’t be matched. MSPs can directly provide testing, software patching, training, maintenance, policy development, and management to protect the organization.
Continuity
In this age of mergers, acquisitions, and transiency of IT personnel, MSPs are often a steadying influence – keeping the organization on track, helping to adapt to new situations, or providing a permanence of vision as faces change. Plus, their focus will always be on keeping the client operational and thriving.
Watch and Learn
Webinar: “Connectivity, We’ve Come a Long Way From Dad’s Copper Wire.” Join Sales Engineers Gerry Davis and Andrew Rustad to take a look at the many possibilities, capabilities, and opportunities available with today’s Network and Voice – from the initial connection formula through solutions like SD-WAN and colocation data centers to the advantages of incorporating MSP solutions.
Read and Learn
Managed Services are the competitive edge that many organizations are embracing. With a breadth of expertise, predictable cost structure, and stability that is hard to achieve in today’s highly competitive IT/Cybersecurity industry, organizations can improve their IT capabilities and improve their security posture by engaging with Managed Services. Read this short article to learn more about this category, how it’s offered, and some of the surprising “as-a-Service” solutions being offered.
Promote Managed Services to Your Customers
Sandler Partners have access to customizable Managed Services campaigns in the Marketing Center – both co-branded solution-specific and agnostic category deliverables that put your brand front and center! Located in the Sandler Portal, the Marketing Center lets Partners create strategically targeted campaigns with collateral, emails, social posts, and microsites that can be updated, sent, and tracked from within the center! What a great way to be positioned for category thought leadership in the minds of the ones who count – existing and potential customers.
Providers Give You Options, and Capability, For Managed Services
Our Featured Providers
Colt is a global network connectivity and Cloud computing Provider spanning over 210 cities in more than 30 countries across Europe, Asia and North America, with over 29,000 on-net buildings and counting. Colt is an innovator in Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) services, and connects over 900 datacenters worldwide.
Comcast is one of the nation's largest Providers of video, high-speed Internet, voice, phone and enterprise solutions to residential and business customers. Comcast also provides a suite of Managed and Professional Services that reduce the complexity of enterprise networks while increasing performance by targeting key metrics like bandwidth, uptime, QoS and incident response times allowing organizations additional opportunities to innovate.
Granite is a leading service provider for multi-location businesses in the US and Canada. Granite brings stability to both end-users and partners, helping more than 2/3rds of the Fortune 100 with their voice and data requirements. Granite’s core products include POTS, Epik (wireless POTS replacement), SIP, 7 different SD-WAN platforms, Mobility and IoT, and Managed Services (SD-WAN, switches, firewalls, APs, circuits).
Zayo provides Communications Infrastructure services, including fiber and bandwidth Connectivity, Colocation, and Cloud services. Zayo’s 127,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. In addition to high-capacity dark fiber, wavelength, Ethernet, and other connectivity solutions, Zayo offers Colocation and Cloud infrastructure in its carrier-neutral data centers.
Sandler Partners have access to the full portfolio of 106+ Data, Voice, and Network solution Providers — including leading providers DYOPATH, Epic IO, Fusion Connect, Nexogy, Ooma, PhoenixNAP, TPx, Verizon, Vonage, Windstream Enterprise, WiredIQ, and Zultys. You can review all your available options by using the Solutions Finder or Solutions Index tools located in the Sandler Portal. For help navigating your way through the process, while discovering the best Provider(s) solutions available to meet your client’s requirements, simply contact our Sales Engineering Team!