Emerging Technology Opportunities
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and continued economic uncertainty, MSPs entered 2021 perhaps more unsure than in any previous year about where to focus their strategy and resources.
But in one way, 2021 will be no different than earlier years: There will be a number of hot emerging technologies that will be in high demand and will create new opportunities for MSPs to incorporate them into their product portfolios and service offerings.
As part of the 2021 MSP 500 project, CRN asked MSPs to describe what they see as the emerging technologies that they expect to provide the biggest opportunities this year.
Not surprisingly, given the fallout from the SolarWinds cybersecurity attack, security technology and services of all types were cited as a major opportunity. And with millions of workers continue to work from home, technologies like VDI and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams were frequently cited. Artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, cloud migration, high-performance computing and next-generation data analytics also made the list.
Here’s a sampling of the responses that MSPs provided. Some have been edited for clarity.
