MSP University Announces New Partnership to Provide IT Professionals with Hybrid Cloud Education, Training and Support Services
Largest consultancy and online business improvement resource for IT professionals and managed services providers partners to launch new Cloud education initiative.

GARDEN GROVE, CA, December 08, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Managed Service Provider University (www.mspu.us); the largest consultancy and online resource dedicated to business transformation and improvement strategies for information technology (IT) professionals and managed services providers worldwide, announced today its collaboration with ClearCenter (www.clearcenter.com) and ChannelCloud (www.channelcloud.com) to develop and deliver education, training and fulfillment services to help IT professionals grow revenues with hybrid cloud services and technologies.

"This strategic partnership will help clear up market confusion by providing IT professionals a clear understanding of hybrid cloud services and technologies and simplify the value proposition for these services and solutions to reflect real business value for their clients," said Gary Beechum, President and CEO of MSP University.

A recent CompTIA research study revealed that 80% of end-user clients and 62% of IT professionals polled are unsure of, or use no formal definition of Cloud services, with the majority of both groups agreeing that these services need a clearer definition. MSP University's strategic partnership with ClearCenter and ChannelCloud will work towards addressing this need for clarification by educating the IT channel and creating effective Hybrid Service Providers through focused training, fulfillment and services deliverables.

"Cloud applications and services are critical to the future of IT because they bring a scalable, easily deployed architecture to smaller organizations. On Premise applications and services protect the local network and provide essential local services. Combined, they form a Hybrid IT environment where the perfect application of Cloud and On-Premise resources serve the organization. ClearCenter has mastered the sophisticated environment surrounding these technologies and prepared a comprehensive partner program to enable the Hybrid Cloud market. We are very excited to bring these tools to MSP University for their rapidly expanding channel of IT providers," said Michael Proper, CEO of ClearCenter.

According to CompTIA, 72% of end user customers polled plan to expand the type and number of Cloud services they are consuming, with the primary driver being a desire to reduce capital expenditures on hardware and other systems, followed closely by an overall desire to cut costs and add new capabilities not available with alternative models. This creates a tremendous opportunity for properly trained Hybrid Service Providers to identify and align appropriate Cloud solutions and services with integrated on premise solutions to fit the business needs of their prospects and clients.

"ChannelCloud provides a truly comprehensive end-to-end managed cloud solution for IT professionals and their clients. We deliver not only the technology and platform, but the training, and the transition tools needed to move forward with this new business model," said Kent Erickson, CEO of ChannelCloud. "With our ten years of experience in delivering hosted cloud solutions, we are experts in our field and look forward to helping the channel build successful cloud integration practices. We are excited to share our cloud platform and knowledge with MSP University and its members."

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