Dave Raffo

Feb 25, 2025 | channelfutures.com | Dave Raffo

If you have something to say to the world's leading managed service providers, this is the perfect forum for you. You can be part of the Channel Partners Conference & Expo’s MSP Summit, the industry’s largest gathering of channel leaders in the booming managed services industry. Our events team is seeking speakers who can help partners advance their managed services practices and businesses in this new era of AI.

Dec 2, 2024 | channelfutures.com | Dave Raffo |Craig Galbraith

Cybersecurity is one of the driving forces of managed services, helping MSPs grow their businesses, even in challenging times. So it’s no wonder that providing managed security services helped put many of the elite MSPs onto the Channel Futures MSP 501 list, with 99% of them reporting revenue from cybersecurity. Canalys pointed to cybersecurity as a major driver behind its predicted worldwide IT spending growth of 8.3%, to $5.44 trillion in 2025.

Nov 4, 2024 | channelfutures.com | Dave Raffo

Early bird pricing is available for the world's biggest independent channel event in 2025. Registration for the world’s largest independent gathering of channel partners is open. You can register here for the 2025 Channel Conference Partners Conference & Expo, set for March 24-27, 2025, at The Venetian Las Vegas. The event brings together representatives from the entire channel ecosystem — including trusted advisors, VARs, MSPs, MSSPs, consultants, resellers and system integrators.

Oct 23, 2024 | channelfutures.com | Dave Raffo

‘If you don't have an elite AI story, and you haven’t invested seriously, you’re quickly going to be legacy technology," CEO Jon Murchison told Channel Futures. Former NSA computer operations expert Jon Murchison started Blackpoint Cyber in 2014 and has built it into a leading MDR vendor for managed service providers. Blackpoint’s goal is to detect breaches faster than any other tool on the market by harnessing metadata around suspicious events, hacker tradecraft and remote privileged activity.

Oct 20, 2024 | channelfutures.com | Dave Raffo |Craig Galbraith

We highlight the 30 companies from the 2024 MSP 501 that are leading the way in cloud services and how they're doing it. Cloud revenue represents a high-growth area for managed service providers (MSPs), while also bringing about a high level of competition. In this list (see the slideshow above), we, in no particular order, highlight30 MSPs on the 2024 Channel Futures MSP 501 that counted on cloud services for their primary or secondary income stream and grew cloud revenue by 30% or more in 2023.