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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 [...]

Is virtualization part of your IT deployment strategy? If you’re an IT professional working with a small- or medium-sized business (SMB), then chances are your answer is “yes.” A recent survey from Spiceworks reports that virtualization is the top IT initiative among SMBs. The survey goes on to say that 67% of SMBs are planning [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Some like it hot, as in a “hot site” for business continuity in the cloud. Axcient’s newly announced Cloud Continuity makes the idea of a hot site a reality for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). The power of this offering is in its simplicity: Just point, click, and virtualize an entire office in the [...]

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 [...]