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By Andrew Alegria As published March 11, 2013 in CRN As an increasing number of VARs add SaaS offerings to their portfolio, those without cloud services will find it increasingly hard to compete for customers – and to maintain profitability without the margin-rich reoccurring revenue streams that SaaS services provide. In North America, there are [...]

Today, customers expect businesses to be always up and available, and to safely handle more personal data than ever before. The more common these expectations become, the higher the cost of falling short by suffering from data loss and extended IT downtime.

This blog was originally published on The VAR Guy on Sept. 12, 2012 If you think you can afford downtime, ask the small-business owners who faced Hurricane Isaac in the U.S. Southeast. Many of them had to close their doors as the Category 1 hurricane left more than 900,000 people and businesses without power for [...]

By Leticia Rodriguez A full length version of this blog was originally published on MSPmentor on Aug. 9, 2012. After hearing stories of frustration with tape from several small businesses, I did some number crunching to find out what it really costs the average SMB to manage what was once considered an “inexpensive” method to  data backup and [...]

Todd Scallan is Axcient VP of Products. This blog was originally published in The VAR Guy on July 9, 2012. I enjoy “do-it-yourself” (DIY) projects, but I know my limits (well, most of the time). If a project is deemed to be within my abilities — either rightly or wrongly — it’s off to the [...]

This blog by Axcient was originally published in The VAR Guy on May 16, 2012. Everyone in the IT industry likes to talk about the importance of ensuring a quality data backup. We all know how vital that data is to our customers, and how losing data can cripple an otherwise flourishing business. But in [...]

For most managed service providers, the big questions are “how do you grow your business, add new customers, and reap the benefits of monthly recurring revenue (MRR)?”  I’ve seen many strategies over the years, but I want to share one with you that works particularly well for service driven businesses. Introducing the “Wedge” product, a [...]

“I’m so glad that never happened to us.” “We’re really not big enough to have a disaster.” “There isn’t so much here that we couldn’t recreate it.” Does this sound familiar? Have you caught yourself thinking these thoughts in the back of your mind when debating the various ways you could and should protect your [...]

The first time I got a PC with a hard drive I remember thinking, “10 MB is more than I’ll ever need.” Aside from just now disclosing that I began my career in the days of punch cards and floppy disks (where did the time go?), it illustrates something I’ve come to believe: Disk storage [...]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again…I firmly believe that engineering data protection solutions for the SMB market is more challenging than doing the same thing for the enterprise market. I know what you’re thinking…enterprise systems are so much more complex, and they have extraordinarily high expectations for reliability and availability. Maybe so, [...]