The VAR Guy

Welcome to The VAR Guy’s Resource Center. Here, you’ll find timely guides to running and growing your business. All of the content is in PDF format for you to easily download, read and share.

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Content Downloads, Organized By Topic

1. The VAR Guy’s Guides

• The VAR Guy’s Guide to Managed Printer Services
• The VAR Guy’s Guide: 90 Days to Mastering Managed Services

2. The MSPmentor 100

• A special 2008 research report identifying 100 of the world’s most progressive managed service providers, plus key trends in the MSP market.
• Available here as a special offer from our sister site, MSPmentor.net
• Download the MSPmentor 100 research report now.

3. Educational Videos

• Avnet OneTech Services Video: Hear how Avnet partners are using Avnet OneTech Services to deliver high-value services without increasing their investment.
• Avnet HealthPath Video: Learn how Avnet can accelerate your success in the profitable health care IT market.

4. Driving Sales and Revenue

• Getting Real About Virtualization, five facts you need to know (Sponsor: Avnet)
• Boost Profits By Promoting Enterprise Security Solutions, market overview (Sponsor: Avnet)
• Case Study: Generating A New Revenue Stream From Service (Sponsor: OnForce)
• 8 Ways On-site Service Can Drive Revenue Now (Sponsor: OnForce)
• 8 Ways Every Solution Provider Can Profit From Rollouts Right Now (Sponsor: OnForce)
• Strategies for Growing IT Services Revenue (Sponsor: OnForce)

5. Strategic Partnerships

• Case Study: Finding IT Partners for Regional Projects (Sponsor: OnForce)

6. Managed Services

• Case Study 1: Endsight deployed Kaseya’s solution to proactively managed customers’ IT environments from a central console.
• Case Study 2: Think Smart’s solution from LPI could not support key remote capabilities; that’s when the solution provider found an automated MSP platform from Kaseya.
• Kaseya Managed Services Edition (product brief): Describes the core functionality within Kaseya’s IT Automation Framework
• Kaseya Backup and Disaster Recovery (product brief): Ensure business continuity through automatic data protection and disaster recovery
• Kaseya Endpoint Security Managed Services Edition (product brief): Describes how you can extend managed services to include centrally controlled security protection
• Kaseya User State Management (product brief): Describes how Kaseya’s solution ensures business consistency through Automated Desktop Migration
• Getting SMBs to Say Yes to Managed Services (white paper): Designed for channel organization decision makers
• Green Computing (white paper): Using IT automation to achieve energy efficiency