Press Release from Quadriga Consulting and Replify:
New Report from Replify Argues that a New Breed of MSP is Emerging

Belfast, United Kingdom – Replify, the first company to introduce an end-to-end all-software wide area network optimization solution, today announced a new initiative focused on Managed Service Providers.  In conjunction with technology analyst firm Quadriga Consulting the company has published a new report and short video for the MSP community. 

The firm has coined the term Accelerated Managed Service Provider to denote MSPs that embrace the idea of enhanced user experience over bandwidth constrained wide area networks.

According to Kevin Donaghy, Replify’s CEO, “We asked Quadriga Consulting to look at what’s happening to the managed service provider market – and they came up with a novel approach.  Quadriga had a look at the market trends material being assembled by the MSP community itself, summarized it and responded to it.  The report pinpoints the new hot segments of the MSP market but suggests that unless we see the emergence of MSPs that actively consider user experience, service quality will be seriously questioned.”

He continued, “We hear lots about the explosion in on-demand software, software as a service, cloud computing and virtualization – and these are all hot technologies as far as MSPs are concerned.  But MSPs also provide hosted enterprise applications, to back-up and DR services, network management and email services.  But the elephant in the room that is rarely mentioned is the wide area network.  The WAN represents a productivity bottle-neck.  It’s often slow, it introduces latency into mission critical applications and can make MSPs look bad because it impacts quality of service.

“Let’s face it – cloud computing is all very good when users have robust broadband connections.  But try using hosted SharePoint on the road, or from a customer’s premises – or even from a modest speed broadband connection.  It’s not a LAN experience.  However, as far as the user is concerned, it should be.  And it can be with all-software based application acceleration from head end to work-group to client.  Replify is the only company able to provide such a solution – and on a subscription based pricing model for MSPs.”

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Copies of the report From MSP to Accelerated MSP can be downloaded from Replify.com – and a summary video version of the report is also available on the company web site.