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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 [...]

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. [...]

Blog by Ed Burke, president of B2BMSP Technology Services and speaker at the upcoming HP/Axcient Cloud Roadshow, coming to five U.S. cities between February 28 and March 15, 2012 If you spend much time with your IT customer, you’ll eventually get a tour of their data center, where they’ll proudly speak to you about the mission-critical hardware [...]

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 [...]

Efficient delivery of managed services is achieved by taking advantage of technology to minimize manual activities. That’s why so many Managed Service Providers (MSPs) rely on Axcient for their clients’ data protection needs. The Axcient platform is complemented by two very important tools for the MSP: Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM), which provides insight and [...]

There is no other sport that I identify with or love as much as I do baseball.  I not only grew up playing the game, I went on to marry a baseball player and then proceeded to give birth to one. And, like true baseball fans everywhere, I’ve been going through withdrawals ever since the [...]

Wisconsin-based MSP and SMB Clients Find Peace of Mind about Facing Downtime Disasters What does a Southern Wisconsin-based Managed Service Provider do when their small and medium-sized business (SMB) clients worry about tornados and lightning strikes and have “zero tolerance for downtime”? In Wisconsin’s Rock County and surrounding areas, customers of The Computer Center are [...]