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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 [...]

You can have the best accounting system in the world but it won’t mean a darn thing if the data you input is bad. I can’t say it enough, “garbage in, garbage out.” It is the responsibility of accounting department personnel to make sure that transactions are valid and supported by audit trails. There is [...]

If sales doubled overnight, can your system infrastructure handle it? What if it tripled? This scenario is more common that one might think. Let’s take a look at the popular and relatively small photo sharing company Instagram (which had only 13 reported employees at the time it was purchased by Facebook in April 2012). On May 1, 2012 [...]

In a galaxy far-far away (the late 1970s to be exact), there were only a few choices of accounting programs available to small and midsized business (SMB) owners. Besides the shoebox, there was always the reliable One-Write System. Of course, with One-Write you needed several different systems (cash disbursements, cash receipts, payroll disbursements, etc.) where you [...]

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 [...]

Strong and consistent sales results are the driving force behind a successful business. It’s the revenue figures that determine a company’s value at the end of the day. And in order for you, as an SMB owner, to get those numbers up to the point at which you and your entire team can sleep well [...]

It’s once again the time of year when most of us make a New Year’s resolution. Some make personal resolutions to lose weight, spend more time with friends, or hold back on making those really funny but really inappropriate comments in public. But New Year’s resolutions can be professional ones too. If you’re a small or medium-sized business [...]

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 [...]

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Value Added Resellers (VARs) have been using the cloud for the disaster recovery component of data storage solutions for years. Even before it was labeled the cloud, various Internet, networking, and remote access technologies worked together to make remote disaster recovery possible. Microsoft’s “To the Cloud” ads began to give [...]

Cloud computing provides centralized and elastic computer resources available on demand without capital investment. You can also think of it like a utility – electricity, gas, telephone or cable TV. Utilities are there when you need them, but most people don’t necessarily understand how utilities work from a technical perspective. Moreover, they don’t need to [...]