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 [...]
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DIY is for Bathrooms, Not Business Continuity
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 [...]
The Backup Bottom Line: What’s My ROI?
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 [...]
Axcient Cloud Continuity Makes Downtime for SMBs a Thing of the Past
I am very excited to introduce the newest extension of the Axcient platform – Cloud Continuity. The Axcient team has been working tirelessly on this project in stealth for over a year and now we’re bringing it to the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market to end downtime for good. Business downtime is a real [...]
How Much Downtime Can Your SMB Afford?
Most small and medium-sized businesses have some type of backup system in place. Anyone who has extensively worked on a network realizes that it’s not a matter of if a server will fail but when. However, backup alone cannot address the problem of the lost work productivity a business faces during the period of time [...]