Our media brands define emerging IT markets or disrupt traditional markets — or both. Our blogs and microblogs lead their respective markets. But we’re more than a blogging company. Our brands include research, events, custom media and more. Take a look.

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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); MSPmentor Live webcasts and podcasts; traditional and sponsored research, databases, custom media and plenty more.

MSPtweet includes the loudest tweets in the managed services market. Featuring multiple microblogs, MSPtweet allows the most influential names in the managed services market to directly reach Nine Lives Media Inc.’s growing audience of MSPs and VARs.

The VAR Guy 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; The VAR Guy Live webcasts and podcasts; The Open Source 50 (tracking the world’s most promising open source partner programs) and plenty more.

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 Inc.’s growing universe of solutions provider readers.

WorksWithU is the independent guide to Ubuntu — the fastest-growing Linux distribution on the planet. The site serves a range of Ubuntu enthusiasts: Consumers. Small Businesses. Government Organizations. Large Enterprises. Whereever Ubuntu goes on mobile devices, desktops, servers and the cloud, we’ll be there. WorksWithU features the WorksWithU 1,000 — a list of organizations across the world running Ubuntu on a range of systems.