Ultimate Guide to Partnering®

Ultimate Guide to Partnering®


#60 – Spotlighting An Innovative Solution to Cloud Risk, Complexity, and Cost.

July 12, 2018

For this episode of the podcast leading up to Microsoft Inspire, I spotlight a Microsoft partner introducing and showcasing their new innovative solution at the event.

My guest for this episode of the podcast is Vadim Vladimirskiy. Vadim is the CEO and Founder of Nerdio. a Microsoft partner with a long tradition in delivering value-added managed services that have developed an innovative platform that reduces the risk, complexity, and cost for service providers delivering cloud services.

In this episode, Vadim and I discuss his experiences and insights as a managed service provider, the best practices his organization brings to this new innovative product offering, why other Microsoft partners should work with Nerdio and where partners can meet he and the team at Microsoft Inspire, July 15th to the 19th in Las Vegas Nevada.

And if you are coming to Inspire, please join me in the Commons Theater on Wednesday, July 18th at 2:30 for a special session where I’ll share “What they don’t teach working with Microsoft”.

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TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW

Vince:                 Vadim, welcome to the podcast.

Vadim:                Thanks. It's great to be here.

Vince:                 I'm excited to have you as a guest on Ultimate Guide to Partnering. You and I have gotten to know each other pretty well over the last several months working on your Go-to-Market plan with Microsoft.  I'm glad you could join today to discuss your company, its value proposition, and your personal and professional journey. So, welcome.

Vadim:                Thanks so much. I'm really glad to be here, and thanks for having me on.

Vince:                 Can you begin by telling our listeners a little bit about Nerdio, and how you got started.

Vadim:                Absolutely. We started Nerdio back in 2005. Initially, we were an online backup company in the market that was pretty new back in those days and then quickly evolved into a managed services provider, an MSP, that was offering a very unique hosted IT type of a service.

We were using cloud-type IT before cloud was The Cloud, so initially, we were offering services around RDS and remote desktop services, and terminal services, and then eventually transitioned to more of a VDI-type of technology, and have created a business that has hundreds of companies all around the world using our services.

Vince:                 For our listeners who don't know, how do you define MSP or managed service provider?

Vadim:                I guess the easiest way to think about it is an IT services company that takes care of either some or all of the IT needs of a particular organization. These IT needs typically include things like: monitoring of the IT system, fixing any problems as they arise, providing tech support to users, help desk, and providing consulting services, and things like that. Usually these services are provided as a month subscription by the MSP or the managed services provider.

Vince:                 I've heard you talk about IT as a service. For our listeners, what is IT as a service? Can you explain that to us?

Vadim:                Sure, sure. The easiest way in my mind to think about IT as a services is as a superset of other as a service technology.