BDR Articles

41. Three Ways You Can Sell More Backup To Your Customers 9/29/2017

    These days, all businesses—from colossal enterprises to the smallest home-based ventures—depend on data. This means that protecting data is vital. That’s why backup and recovery solutions are increasingly recognized as essential safeguards against data loss. Businesses large enough to have a dedicated  IT team or department tend to be well set on this front. Small and mid-size businesses (SMBs), on the other hand, are often lacking in this crucial area. They frequently have in place unreliable, cobbled-together data protection systems—or none at all.

42. Four Reasons To Choose Hybrid Cloud For Backup And Recovery 9/18/2017

    These days, most small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are driven by data—from email and digital documents to productivity apps and point-of-sale systems. Protecting that data is critical. If you’re responsible for client data protection, you already know this. And you also know that one major data loss could cost you a customer for good.

43. Cloud Archiving 101 9/18/2017

    As the basis for so much daily business communication, email is a mission-critical service for many business people. Managed services providers must steward it carefully, with a close eye on performance. In the fight for effective email management, there is one weapon that service providers frequently overlook: archiving.

44. 5 Steps To Take Backup From Good 2 Great 9/18/2017

    You’re good at backup. But what would make you great?  Many resellers and MSPs haven’t quite mastered their backup line of business. The key is to determine how you can properly structure your service offerings, improve your efficiency, and provide service that keeps your customers happy—all at the same time. 

45. Work-Stations: Disaster Recovery's Untouched Opportunity 9/18/2017

    Often, the mention of Disaster Recovery produces thoughts of monsoons and hurricanes, complete chaos, no power, etc. In reality, for many businesses a disaster is simply as an event that creates an inability for the business to function. Disasters come in many shapes and sizes – the natural disasters we all think about, but also chemical spills, building fires, broken water pipes, and, on a much smaller scale, a virus-infected server.

46. Choosing An Online Backup Tool: Why Speed Should Be A Consideration 9/18/2017

    Backup isn’t just about storing copies of your customers’ data; it’s really more about what happens when you need to restore it. You see, the more often    you back up, the more up-to-date the data is when the time comes to restore it. Much of this is driven by the backup window, which is the time it takes to perform a backup without impacting system and network performance. Performance degradation is one reason backups are usually done during off- peak hours.

47. Becoming A Managed Security Services Provider: Why A Layered Approach To Security Is Essential 7/27/2017

    Focusing your managed services business on cybersecurity creates several opportunities to increase margins; most significantly, by implementing layers of security at client sites, you can reduce costly security-related issues. Understanding that effective cyberdefense involves multiple layers of technology is crucial, as is the understanding that customer disruption is a revenue killer in the world of the managed services provider (MSP).

48. Cybersecurity: Can Overconfidence Lead To An Extinction Event? 7/3/2017

    In this 2017 security survey, the overall responses strongly suggest that executive boards of enterprises and small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) are confident of their cyberthreat preparedness, low vulnerability, and data protection. The data reflects that their CIOs, heads of IT, and even their CISOs are all equally clear: we are secure.

49. Key Considerations For Optimized Virtual Machine Data Protection 6/1/2017

    As your customers’ work environments move to the cloud and become more virtualized, it’s important to make sure your backup and disaster recovery strategy is keeping up.

50. Big Changes to BSM 6/1/2017

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