LogicMonitor CEO Kevin McGibben is striving to disrupt the traditional IT monitoring market. His company is focused like a laser on hosted monitoring of networks, servers, applications, storage… and the cloud. Target customers and partners include Web-based companies, MSPs and cloud providers, and in-house IT departments. Note: Friday's Last Word is open to cloud-centric CEOs who want to pull back the curtains on their lives.
ConnectWise CEO Arnie Bellini hosts IT Nation 2012, one of the largest annual gatherings of VARs and MSPs. Jim Collins, best-selling author of Good to Great, Built to Last, and Great By Choice, keynoted the conference on Nov. 9, 2012. ConnectWise is a Top 100 Cloud Services Provider. Several other Top 100 CSPs and MSPmentor 100 companies were in the audience. The big theme: What does it take to build a great company that remains great for 20 or more years?