Hot on the heels of the Cloud Computing World Forum 2011 in London, we hosted a Service Provider breakfast and discussion in the clouds at The Gherkin, 30 St Mary Axe, London. This is the beginning of a planned series of these open exchange events sponsored by Nimsoft
The Gherkin is a great venue and provided our customers and audience an amazing view of London while we shared the Nimsoft Datacenter to the Clouds IT Service Management as a Service strategy. This was followed by a business discussion led by Simon Gray of Adapt.
Simon stepped us through his business strategy for Adapt and the process his team managed while evaluating Nimsoft Unified Manager. He drew from his many years of IT experience and offered insights, recommendations, and advice. Thank you Simon!
After some great eggs benedict and smoked salmon we enjoyed a lively open forum and Q&A.
Key takeaways from this Simons discussion:
- Choose a solution that is able to expand as you grow and adjust your business.
- Optimize and reduce costs by choosing a standard solution. Selecting, learning, and understanding the costs of a single tool, rather than multiple tool fits well with an msp’s business model.
- Select a partner and work side to side together. Down the road things will change and a good working relationship will allow you to roll with the changes.
