Quickly Determine Your Client's Backup Needs
by Sean Curiel on Aug 24, 2021 5:49:47 PM
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 …
The Dangers of Cyberattacks to Small Businesses & How to Mitigate Them
by Paula Kubo on May 5, 2021 8:37:58 AM
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 …
One Remedy for the Slow Backup Blues
by Adam Stuflick on Mar 9, 2021 8:12:02 PM
“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 …
MSP Challenges: Building Trust with Prospects for Managed Backup
by Sean Curiel on Feb 18, 2021 6:15:09 PM
Growing your business as an MSP almost always means deliberately filling and nurturing your sales funnel as part of a repeatable sales process. A typical MSP sales process might flow from lead generation and qualification, to initial contact or discovery call, to a more structured pre …
Deploy and Configure Backup Remotely
by Nathan.Fouarge on Dec 3, 2020 2:20:02 PM
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 across home offices, branch locations, and mo …
5 Holiday Shopping Tips to Prevent Cybercrime
by Sean Curiel on Nov 24, 2020 5:28:00 AM
The holiday season is here, with more people working from home than ever before. With so much of our work, personal communication, and shopping now happening online, it only makes sense that businesses have redoubled their marketing efforts to get their best deals of the year out and …
A Practical Guide to RAID Storage
by Bridget.Giacinto on Sep 10, 2020 11:07:00 AM
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 …
How to Calculate Backup Requirements
by Sean Curiel on Aug 22, 2019 10:47:00 AM
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.
Why Hardware Maintenance is Crucial for Data Protection
by Paula Kubo on Jan 29, 2019 4:21:11 PM
According to our Support T echnicians , many of the difficulties faced by our customers weren’t caused by their backup skills or lack thereof. The majority were unable to put the best backup strategy in place due to compromised hardware performance or outdated software systems.
