- Gradient Launches MSP Studio to Accelerate MSPs’ Growth
- Digital Transformation Drives Biz Opportunities for MSPs
- NinjaOne Acquires Dropsuite to Add Data Protection to Endpoint Management
- Flexera’s Spot Acquisition Will Bolster FinOps for MSPs
Each week, MSSP Alert compiles a list of the top stories in the managed services market from our affiliate brand, ChannelE2E. These stories include vendor news, business stories, how-to content about building and selling your business, news about trends such as artificial intelligence, and more. Here’s this week’s round-up of news from ChannelE2E.
Gradient Launches MSP Studio to Accelerate MSPs’ Growth
Gradient MSP has always had one primary goal: To help MSPs make money.
This week, to further that goal, the company unveiled its latest free resource,
MSP Studio. MSP Studio is an evolution of Gradient's MSP Price Benchmarking tool, which launched in August 2024 and is free for MSPs. More than 500 MSPs have already used the tool, and it includes more than $7 billion in MSP usage and sales data
, Colin Knox, CEO and co-founder of Gradient MSP, told ChannelE2E.
"Half of the industry doesn't make any money, right? So we thought, 'If we've got all this pricing data, we can help [MSPs] see how much they can charge and how much their peers are charging,'" Knox said. "We wanted to bring that together to help MSPs figure out and improve their pricing strategies. But the next step is helping them let people know about it," he said.
That's where MSP Studio comes in, Knox said. In addition to the benchmarking tool and education, there are additional resources addressing other areas for MSP growth, including 12 marketing toolkits from sponsoring vendors, Knox said. These include Sherweb, Augmentt, Barracuda, Breach Secure Now, CyberFOX, Enclave, Hudu, Huntress, and Keeper, among others.
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Digital Transformation Drives Biz Opportunities for MSPs
The global business focus on modernizing operations through digital transformation offers MSPs broad opportunities for services and revenue growth.
That is one of the key conclusions of a new
2025 State of Digital Transformation report from global systems integrator TEKsystems, which
was compiled using responses from 855 technology and business decision-makers through an online survey from November to December 2024.
So, how can MSPs help their customers fill tech gaps during this time of continuing digital transformation?
“The top three digital transformation needs MSPs can address are AI and ML, cybersecurity, and automation,”
Cara Bilderback, director of MSP client engagement at TEKsystems, told ChannelE2E.
Read the complete story here.NinjaOne Acquires Dropsuite to Add Data Protection to Endpoint Management
NinjaOne is acquiring Dropsuite for $252 million to expand its services to MSPs by adding backup and data protection features for customers of its endpoint management platform.
The acquisition will
give NinjaOne the capabilities to help business users extend their data protection beyond their endpoints to their SaaS applications, which are heavily targeted by cybercriminals due to their popularity and high adoption rates.
By integrating Dropsuite’s data protection services into NinjaOne’s offering, the company will be able to provide these complementary protections through one platform to protect against threats such as ransomware attacks as well as accidental data deletion and more. For MSPs, supporting one platform rather than two will help simplify MSP operations and reduce potential compatibility problems for customers, according to NinjaOne.
The combined platform will provide extended data protection, automated setup and recovery, native multi-tenancy for easier MSP administration, and enhanced data discovery and search for users.
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Flexera’s Spot Acquisition Will Bolster FinOps for MSPs
Software asset management and cloud management vendor Flexera is expanding its FinOps business with the acquisition of NetApp’s Spot FinOps platform.
By
acquiring NetApp’s Spot platform, Flexera will strengthen its ability to optimize Kubernetes and further growth of its MSP business while delivering more capabilities for FinOps customers. Flexera provides hybrid IT asset management (ITAM) and FinOps services to customers using Al-enabled technologies that allow businesses to track and manage their software, SaaS applications, hardware, cloud instances, containers, and other business assets.
Under the deal, Flexera aims to improve cost management for multi-cloud environments and FinOps services, using Spot’s AI and machine learning (ML)-enabled technology and Flexera’s hybrid cloud expertise, the company stated.
By acquiring and integrating the Spot platform, Flexera is working to provide organizations with a broad view of their
technology spending and risk across their internal and external IT ecosystems, which will make it easier and more efficient to manage costs.
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