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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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

This blog was originally published in The VAR Guy on March 19, 2012. You’re a VAR, trying to crack into the cloud solutions market. You understand why the opportunity is hot but you’re not exactly sure how to make your first monthly recurring revenue (MRR) sale. After meeting with hundreds of VARs at the HP/Axcient [...]

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 [...]

This is first in a series of guest posts from presenters or sponsors of the HP/Axcient Cloud Roadshow.  From Jeannine Edwards, Director, ConnectWise Community: ConnectWise is excited to hit the road to join the HP/Axcient Cloud Roadshow as a Platinum sponsor! Join us in DC, Dallas, LA, Chicago, or New York to find out how you can leverage the [...]

As appeared in The VAR Guy on February 16, 2012. If you’ve dismissed the cloud as “just another marketing term” to hype the on-demand solutions that businesses have been using for more than a decade, then you’re missing the point. Dave Nielson of Cloud Camp defines cloud technology as that which is “on-demand, self-service, scalable, [...]

With all the talk about the Cloud and SaaS applications, I wanted to share a few thoughts on the current state of the market, what we can expect in the future, and how best to manage through the transition from the old world to the new. The market currently offers many world-class SaaS applications to [...]

We get it. You run a small business. You’re cash-strapped. Monthly profits have been unpredictable, margins are tight, and you need to make a killing in December to meet your 2011 revenue goal. And you’re using all of these reasons, plus others, to explain why you can’t afford a backup and disaster recovery (BDR) or business continuity solution, at least not right [...]

Datacenters are a source of fascination for me. The startups I worked on early in my career targeted enterprise-class customers, primarily telecommunications and financial services, which counted down time in ”millions of dollars per minute.” I particularly enjoyed the technical challenge of delivering products that would “measure up”. At one point the company I worked [...]