Growth

According to the survey, the largest percentage of MSPs, 36.7 percent, said they expect between 5 and 15 percent growth in 2016, with 31.2 percent foreseeing growth of somewhere between 16 and 50 percent, and only 10.3 percent of respondents predicting slight growth of less than 5 percent.

But according to Bittle, providers that believe they’re going to grow 5 to 15 percent are being "a bit conservative."

Bittle said when one takes into account all the potential growth from new customers and the addition of cloud services, "you could be easily looking at 25 to 35 percent."