Vendor neutrality is easy to claim and hard to prove. The proof is structural: if an advisor can place your business with any of more than 430 providers, there is no single one worth steering you toward.
MALA sources across more than 430 providers in connectivity, colocation, cloud, security, SASE, contact center, unified communications and applied AI. That reach is how we get current pricing, how we run a competitive evaluation, and how the engagement is funded without a fee to you.
An advisor who can transact with more than 430 providers has no structural pull. If a regional fiber carrier is the right answer, we can place it. If the right answer is the incumbent you already have, on better terms, we can do that too — and frequently do. If the right answer is to buy nothing at all, that costs us the engagement and we will still say it.
Provider counts per category. Many providers work across several categories, so the numbers overlap. Select a category to jump to its providers.
Fiber, broadband, wavelength, SD-WAN, wireless and IoT from national, regional and international carriers.
Browse Connectivity providers →Public and private cloud, backup, disaster recovery, managed hosting and infrastructure services.
Browse Cloud providers →Retail and wholesale colocation, interconnection and edge facilities across North America and beyond.
Browse Colocation providers →MDR, SOC, identity, vulnerability management, testing and managed security programs.
Browse Security providers →Secure access service edge: SD-WAN, SSE, zero-trust network access and cloud firewall.
Browse SASE providers →Cloud voice, messaging, meetings and collaboration platforms for distributed teams.
Browse UCaaS providers →Cloud contact center platforms, omnichannel routing, workforce and quality management.
Browse CCaaS providers →Conversational AI, agent assist, voice bots and analytics for customer operations.
Browse CX AI providers →Specialist firms for design, migration and implementation work around the platforms above.
Browse Pro Services providers →Filter by solution category or search by name. These are providers MALA can transact with — not exclusive partnerships, and not an endorsement of any one of them.
The roster changes as providers are added or retired. If you are evaluating a specific category, ask us for the current list rather than relying on this page. Provider names are trademarks of their respective owners.
It is a fair question and it deserves a direct answer rather than a reassurance. We are compensated by the provider you select, and providers within each category have similar compensation models. That is the model, we do not hide it, and we would rather you interrogate it than take it on faith.
The things worth checking: whether we will tell you when the right answer is to stay put, whether we will recommend an option we cannot place, and whether we will say so when the honest recommendation is to buy nothing. How We Get Paid sets out the model in full.
No, and we would be wary of any advisor who claimed a portfolio this size was exclusive to them. These are providers we are able to transact with. What is specific to MALA is the advisory work around them: the assessment, the benchmarking, the negotiation and the recommendation.
Often, yes. If the right answer for you sits outside what we can source, we will say so, and in most cases we can still advise on the evaluation and the contract even where we cannot transact.
No. Providers within each category have similar compensation models, so our recommendation has no reason to lean toward any one of them. If you want to see how a specific recommendation is compensated, ask — we will show you.
That is the common case, and it is usually where the fastest value is. Benchmarking an incumbent contract against current market pricing does not require changing providers. See Technology Contract Negotiation and the Renewal Review.
We will show you what the rest of the market would offer — including when the answer is to stay where you are.