/24-7PressRelease/ - CINCINNATI, OH, September 15, 2006 - The MSPAlliance (wwwmspalliance.com), the only international association for the Managed Services industry, today announced the launch of a major initiative to help reach and educate the end-user consumer on the benefits of using managed services. The initiative will be recognized by several of the MSPAlliance's members, including Intel, HP, EDS, Best Buy For Business, Altoria and others.
The initiative's objective is to help the buying public gain a greater understanding of the managed services industry and its benefits to companies of all sizes. Companies can contract with Managed Services Providers (MSPs) for a wide range of outsourced services, ranging from desktop computer management to more complex services such as enterprise data storage and information security.
Michael Backers, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Altoria stated, "We are emboldened by the impressive list of leaders recognizing and endorsing accredited MSP organizations and the ethical professionals we employ to be trusted advisors to our customers around the world. Through the vision of the MSP Alliance, a critical market imperative has been satisfied in the IT industry to fill a gap between traditional break-fix outsourcing and do-it-yourself paradigms."
The goal of the MSPAlliance is to educate the end-user consumer on the business value associated with using an MSP for corporate IT governance. "With the current onslaught of state, local, federal and international regulations on IT, it is becoming more and more difficult to manage the complexities and liabilities associated with IT. This is one reason professional MSPs are becoming as essential and beneficial as corporate CPAs and attorneys for businesses both large and small." said Celia Weaver, Co-Founder and Vice President of the MSPAlliance.
Several MSPAlliance market vertical committees and advisory board members located throughout North America and internationally, will work to effectively communicate with potential customers and product vendors.
The following MSPAlliance Members have publicly pledged their support to this initiative.
• Intel
• HP
• RSA Security
• Best Buy For Business
• Konica Minolta
• EDS
• Siemens
• Symantec
• Altoria
About the MSPAlliance
The MSPAlliance is a global organization made up of service providers and service enabling technology vendors who work in a collaborative effort to define, promote and educate the Managed Services Industry and the end-user consumer on the adoption and successful use of technology through Managed Services.
About Altoria
Altoria improves the productivity of knowledge workers by connecting them in over 160 countries to their corporate resources with advanced encryption, identity management and innovative e-learning services. Altoria integrates industry proven technologies with continuous innovation to help customers learn from their corporate information, use it as a resource and as a competitive edge. The company protects access to customer resources by integrating strong authentication, vulnerability assessments, managed firewalls, intrusion prevention, e-mail filtering, desktop management, dynamic state authorization, and advanced encryption technologies. With access to our secure portals and innovative e-learning systems, customers are able to improve productivity and meet growing regulatory compliance.
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