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Disruption From The Cloud: Opportunities And Challenges For SMB Channel Partners: Page 2 of 2

The rapid growth of cloud computing is making it much easier for SMB channel partners to provide a broader range of offerings on a 24/7 basis at a lower cost and with fewer IT staff. These offerings include services such as SaaS and managed IT services. As a result, SMB channel partners could lose more than 200,000 IT jobs over the next decade according to AMI Partners' recent Cloud Computing Research studies.
July 08, 2010

Related Studies

AMI's recently published "The Emerging SMB Managed IT Services Market Opportunity in North America: How Cloud Computing is Transforming the SMB IT Services Industry" provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly evolving remote managed services market in North America from both demand-side and supply-side perspectives. The study will help business planners and marketers understand the key dynamics of this fast-growing, but still highly fragmented market in North America. It explores the emergence of new key players in the SMB IT services market, and discusses how their entry will lead to reduced opportunities for the traditional SMB channel partners.

AMI's "Routes to Market Global Model" presents detailed market sizing and forecast for different products and services sold through different types of channels (e.g. retails chains, VARs/SIs, Direct from Vendors, Service Providers and DMRs) for over thirty countries and regions worldwide. This research draws on AMI-Partners' comprehensive quarterly and annual surveys of small (1-99 employees) and medium (100-99 employees) businesses and channel partners as well as detailed discussions held with several service providers and other key players in this market. For more information about these studies, AMI-Partners, or our global SMB research, call 212-944-5100, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.ami-partners.com. 

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