Derik Belair and Gavin Garbutt are certainly familiar names to Canadian MSPs as two of the main faces behind N-able from its founding until its sale to SolarWinds and beyond. And now they’re back in the channel community, with a new venture called Augmentt.
As President and CEO, Derik leads the vision, strategy and growth of Augmentt. Prior to founding Augmentt, Derik was Vice President of Marketing at SolarWinds where he lead the digital marketing strategy for the company’s Cloud division. Derik joined SolarWinds through the acquisition of N-able Technologies, a company he help build and sell to SolarWinds in 2013. Derik has been working in the channel in a senior leadership role for over 20 years, having been through the IPO process and several acquisitions.
Cloud managed services is a practice of outsourcing IT resources and management deployed on the cloud. Growing demand among companies to slash operating and infrastructural costs to manage business processes is one of the major factors driving the growth of the market. The externalization of cloud resources to third parties increases organizational competitiveness, allowing companies to concentrate on their core competencies. The expanding Big Data field has generated a massive demand for managed cloud computing and analytical services.
Augmentt – Proactive SaaS management
The tide has always been rough for the IT sector, as it has a feisty mix of both the good times and the bad. As a result of the pandemic, the market has taken a plunge as both small businesses,and large-scale enterprises struggle to meet their targets.
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TIMING IS EVERYTHING. When the global pandemic forced businesses to accelerate adoption of cloud and SaaS applications for their newly remote workforces, it laid bare the increasing problem of SaaS sprawl. Enter startup Augmentt in August 2020 with a platform for discovering, optimizing, and managing SaaS applications.
he SaaS application management tool allows MSPs to discover, managed and secure Microsoft Office 365 cloud workloads. Support for additional third-party SaaS applications is planned.
Augmentt has unveiled Augment Engage, which “makes it easy for MSPs to accelerate secure SaaS management by streamlining provisioning, simplifying daily user management and increasing productivity and security, at scale from a single screen,” the company says.
The recently launched startup reports particularly strong interest in its products among two channel segments that see big promise in the budding market for SaaS management service.
Augmentt has launched a platform that makes it simpler for managed service providers (MSPs) to manage software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications on behalf of multiple customers.
This emerging vendor’s latest innovation cycle combines the power of SaaS discovery with multi-vendor SaaS management and security in a single solution designed exclusively for MSPs.
