Brands

Nine Lives Media is a division of Penton Media. Our media brands define emerging IT markets or disrupt traditional markets — or both. Our blogs lead their respective markets. But we’re more than a blogging organization. Our brands include research, events, custom media and more. Take a look.

reveals what’s next in the IT channel — from SaaS partner programs to disruptive, emerging technologies. Anonymous. Opinionated. The VAR Guy helps solutions providers to spot emerging market opportunities. His loyal readership weighs in with hundreds of comments about his blog posts. The VAR Guy features the IT channel’s top daily blog; Channel Expert Hour webcasts; FastChat Videos; and research studies including the Top 25 Channel Finance Pros; and plenty more.

MSPmentor is the ultimate guide to managed services. We cover the news, the gossip and the speculation across the global managed services community. We cut through the hype, we ignore vendor spin (or provide our own spin), and we deliver in-depth analysis of the MSP industry. MSPmentor features the industry’s top daily blog; the MSPmentor 100 (tracking the world’s 100 most progressive MSPs); the MSPmentor 250, (highlighting top executives, entrepreneurs and experts); Channel Expert Hour webcasts; FastChat Videos; traditional and sponsored research, databases, custom media and plenty more.

Talkin’ Cloud is the first video blog and online community for VARs and MSPs sorting out their cloud computing strategies. TalkinCloud.com features channel leaders who have mastered the cloud.  It includes News, Business and Technology blogs, plus multiple daily reports from NLM contributing editors.  The site also features the TalkinCloud Forum, built for VARs, MSPs and vendors to discuss and share cloud strategies and best practices.  And don’t miss the TalkinCloudTweet Widget, where cloud leaders can share their Twitter updates right on the home page of TalkinCloud.com.

VARtweet features the loudest tweets in the IT channel. The site contains multiple microblogs, allows vendors, channel chiefs and The VAR Guy himself to communicate quick, fast-moving updates to Nine Lives Media’s growing universe of solutions provider readers.

MSPtweet includes the loudest tweets in the managed services market. Similar to VARtweet, MSPtweet provides up to the minute commentary from today’s managed service market leaders.

To learn about advertising and sponsorship opportunities on any of our sites, please contact Amy Katz or Kim Daniels.