Consolidation Will Continue

Written by Allison Francis
January 1, 1970

Clients in certain industries will be tightening their belts and overall processes in 2023, as well as working to consolidate. Indeed, it is predicted that this MSP industry consolidation will continue, but at a slower pace.

“MSPs will need to do a number of things here:

Find additional ways to automate services and be prepared to drive down sale prices to clients while maintaining margins.
Be ready to help clients plan with more details for the next three years. We develop road maps that allow the client to talk about IT strategy and tactics to keep their systems up and running securely.
Implement additional security measures to keep things safe and sound. Zero trust, for example — how to do it with the least amount of disruption for a client.
Continue third party Backup when clients move to the cloud.

MSPs will also need to find ways to help clients sort out, manage and easily archive their data.” — Paul Riedl, CEO, River Run Computers

“MSPs want to consolidate around fewer vendors, and Microsoft is the leader. Technologies such as Azure AD Join are maturing; Intune is being adopted as a replacement for GPOs. In addition to physical endpoint security, Intune will be used for managing the security of virtual endpoints (AVD desktops and Windows 365 Cloud PCs).” —Amol Dalvi, vice president of product, Nerdio

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Allison Francis

Allison Francis is a writer, public relations and marketing communications professional with experience working with clients in industries such as business technology, telecommunications, health care, education, the trade show and meetings industry, travel/tourism, hospitality, consumer packaged goods and food/beverage. She specializes in working with B2B technology companies involved in hyperconverged infrastructure, managed IT services, business process outsourcing, cloud management and customer experience technologies. Allison holds a bachelor's degree in public relations and marketing from Drake University. An Iowa native, she resides in Denver, Colorado.