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MSPs Put Software Up for Sale
(PRWEB) November 4, 2005 -- As the management service provider market matures, conflicting customer requirements are making the pure-play MSP model more difficult to sustain.
In response to such pressures, a small but growing number of MSPs are looking to leverage the intellectual property they developed to manage customers' IT infrastructure by selling it as packaged management software.
Loudcloud Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., will announce later this month its product strategy and initial packaged tools, dueling with NOCpulse Inc. in the same activity. They join others such as SilverBack Technologies Inc., which earlier this year announced its product strategy. Former MSP 2ndWave Inc., now TorchQuest Inc., is also rumored to be preparing a software offering.
Loudcloud will begin to leverage its Opsware automation platform by packaging its application and server provisioning capabilities into tools it will market as automated configuration management software.
"They'll automate the process of deploying a new device, checking the integration of those devices, keeping a configuration database constant for you for recovery of that device," said one source familiar with LoudCloud's plans.
The tool will focus on the automation of server management processes, added the source.
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