I spent most of this week at the HTG Peer Groups conference in Dallas and Kaseya Connect in Las Vegas. Along the way I bumped into numerous channel partner experts who are working in the IT channel. Here’s the latest lineup for the week ending May 6, 2011. Plus, you’ll find a link to our compiled Follow Friday list — which will ultimately identify 200 channel partner experts working in the cloud.
This week’s lineup includes…
Jacob Kazakevich, President, OS33. Twitter: @OS33Soft
Kazakevich is building a multi-tenant hosted IT platform for MSPs. The solution includes pre-integrated business apps and third-party SaaS offerings. Moreover, OS33 can be deployed in private data centers. Kazakevich also has joined the board of directors at Technology Capital Investors, which invests in MSPs.
Kent S. McNall, President and CEO, Quosal. Twitter: @QuosalMan
McNall made headlines this week when ConnectWise Capital invested in Quosal, which VARs and MSPs use to develop project quotes for customers. But more interestingly to TalkinCloud, Quosal has a cloud option hosted in the Microsoft SQL Azure cloud. That means McNall was one of Microsoft’s earliest cloud partners on SQL Azure.
Jim Melvin, President and CEO, AppNeta. Twitter: @Pathview_Hero
Melvin has successfully rebranded and relaunched Apparent Networks as AppNeta, a cloud-based network performance management service. The company in April 27 raised $6.2 million in new venture funding. The company claims that its customer base exceeds 1,000 MSPs and enterprise customers. Pretty impressive.
Jim Reddy, VP of Sales Americas, InFocus. Twitter: @InFocusCorp
Our team met Reddy at the Kaseya Connect User Conference in May 2011. He’s working on something big — really big — for managed services providers. What’s cooking? Imagine a really big tablet computer that you can mount in a conference room. Then tie that touch-screen solution to back-end collaboration applications and video conferencing services. Now, imagine a business model where the solution generates recurring revenues for MSPs…
Lyf Wildenberg, President, Mytech Partners. Twitter: MytechPartners
Wildenberg and his three business partners have built Mytech Partners into one of the most successful MSPs in Minneapolis, Minn. A well-known member of HTG Peer Groups, Wildenberg has helped Mytech to introduce such hosted services as managed video surveillance. He’s also a Mac expert, having rolled out a range of virtualized server solutions that customers can access from Macs, iPads and iPhones.
Marching Toward 200
So, who has previously appeared on Talkin’ Cloud’s Follow Friday list? Find the answer by tracking our Talkin’ Cloud 200, a central list of cloud experts working in the IT channel.
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