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Tips for Testing Backup Restorability

Restorability

A backup is only as good as its restorability. And like Schrödinger’s cat, you may not know the status until you go have a look. We’ve all heard nightmares about that business who was hit with Ransomware then when it came time to restore – realized a bad state of affairs. Perhaps the …

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Quickly Determine Your Client's Backup Needs

Quickly Determine Your Client's Backup Needs

Adding new customers is an ongoing challenge for many Managed Service Providers. It’s a process made more difficult when new customer prospects don't have the technical savvy to assess their own backup needs. As their new MSP, there is a lot you can do to quickly ascertain their basic …

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The Dangers of Cyberattacks to Small Businesses & How to Mitigate Them

The Dangers of Cyberattacks to Small Businesses & How to Mitigate Them

Cases of cyberattacks are continuously growing, especially against small businesses. Malicious agents take advantage of the fact that most small organizations do not have the resources or cybersecurity implementation to protect their systems. Based on the Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report …

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One Remedy for the Slow Backup Blues

A Remedy for the Backup Blues

“This is taking way too long” is something that System Administrators unfortunately find themselves saying from time to time. The fact is that old technologies are still out there, in fact widely used, and this can plague the day-to-day schedules of many Managed Service Providers (MSP …

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MSP Challenges: Building Trust with Prospects for Managed Backup

MSP Challenges: Building Trust with Prospects for Managed Backup

Growing new businesses often requires filling your MSP sales funnel as part of your sales process. A typical MSP sales process might flow from lead generation to initial contact, presentation or demo, and finally, an attempt to close the sale. But without the proper relationship build …

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Deploy and Configure Backup Remotely

Deploy and Configure Backup Remotely

Employees are increasingly working from remote locations, thus creating new security vulnerabilities. Monitoring and managing the data generated by these off-site workers is an entirely new challenge as data becomes more widely distributed. System administrators must be able to quickl …

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6 Holiday Shopping Tips to Prevent Cybercrime

6 Holiday Shopping Tips to Prevent Cybercrime

The holiday season is here, with more people working from home than ever before. It only makes sense that businesses have redoubled their marketing efforts to get their best deals of the year out and in front of you. The flood of advertising is an opportunity for cost-conscious folks …

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A Practical Guide to RAID Storage

A Practical Guide to RAID Storage

If uptime and availability are important to your business, you may want to consider using RAID storage as part of your data storage strategy. RAID writes data across multiple disks to provide redundancy. What is RAID Storage? RAID storage is a Redundant Array of Independent or Inexpen …

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How to Calculate Backup Requirements

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Backup of critical data is a task whose importance is often not appreciated until data loss has been experienced. Fortunately, a wide range of solutions on the market today make this job as painless as possible.

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What to Do If You Can't Move from Microsoft Windows 7

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