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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 Nov. 12, 2012. How IT Providers Used the Cloud to Weather the Storm With damage estimated at $60 billion, Sandy is the second costliest hurricane on record in the United States. Countless businesses lost revenue while waiting for power to return or floods to subside. [...]

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 [...]

It’s a sad story, one that’s been told many times: Important data wasn’t backed up. Then a tragic event struck. It was a drive crash on a critical server, or a lost laptop, or a natural disaster that wiped out an entire office. All data was lost, which had dire consequences for the affected business. [...]

By Justin Crotty, SVP and GM NetEnrich, Inc. If you really think about it, what are conventional managed services? They’re the automation of the break/fix services the channel used to call professional and value-add services.  Rather than sending a truck and technician to a customer site every time a server crashed or a switch required [...]

In previous blogs, I’ve detailed how businesses can calculate their return on investment (ROI) for a business continuity solution and explained why tape backup products don’t meet today’s business needs. In case you haven’t noticed, I think business continuity and data backup is extremely important for an SMB. Still, some SMBs insist on running their [...]