| 6 Essential Steps To Managed Backup Success |
By David Weeks
A couple hours of downtime can do a lot of damage — just ask any major retailer or small business owner. It means lost revenues, loss of customers — and the permanent loss of data. Combine that with the estimated cost of downtime for a small to midsize business (SMB) — a staggering $12,500 a day — and you’ve got an invoice that few organizations can afford to pay. |
| Developing The Right Price For Your Services |
| These days there’s a lot of pressure to get your price points perfect. Ask too much, and you’ll limit your customer base. Ask too little, and you’ll hurt your profitability or client perception. Learn the factors that really matter when developing your prices. |
| Marketing Measurement...Who Even Does That? |
| Performance improvement and optimization are goals that many companies strive to achieve. As business owners, we want to build organizations that can practically manage themselves with staffs that are proactive and self-reliant when it comes to accomplishing tasks. The same goal should be practiced when it comes to approaching your marketing efforts. |
| MSPs, Don't Risk Missing Opportunities: 4 Factors Driving Cloud Security |
By Darren Niller
To all MSPs out there that are accustomed to managing on-premise security solutions, it’s time to take note — your business is moving to the cloud, whether you like it or not. According to a Gartner report released last year, by 2016 the use of cloud computing will increase to become the bulk of new IT spend. |
| 3 Tips To Help Your Clients Take The Sting Out Of Microsoft Licensing |
By Don Boxley
With the release of SQL Server 2012, Microsoft transitioned from a per-processor to a pre-core licensing model. One might suppose, that with the advent of ever-larger core-count processors, Microsoft saw an opportunity and took action. While this change may not have hit your clients’ radar screen yet, it will in a few months, and when it hits — it will hurt. |
| 4 Ways To Optimize Data Protection In Virtual Environments |
By Tom Fedro
When it comes to virtual machines (VMs), it’s no secret that a more robust backup and disaster recovery (BDR) approach is required — compared to what you might deploy in a traditional physical server environment. From data protection policies that are based on VM replication, to increased levels of performance to support database-driven business applications and higher I/O workloads, there’s a lot to keep in mind. |
| What Banks Can Learn From Recent Data Breaches |
By Dimitri Vlachos
It’s good to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s better to learn from someone else’s. In the case of banks — and those in charge of their IT security — it’s much better to learn from the mistakes of JPMorgan and other recent high-profile victims, as opposed to making similar mistakes yourself. |
| Don't Throw The Data Out With The Bathwater: Why BYOD, MDM Security Policies Need A Revamp |
By Ahmet Tuncay
According to IDC there will be some 1.3 billion mobile workers by 2015 and as many as 328 million employee-owned smartphones on the job by 2017. Enterprise IT needs to seriously consider its bring your own device (BYOD) and mobile device management (MDM) policies to ensure that they can protect corporate data while also supporting their employees’ need to work when and where they want in the age of the mobile worker. |
| Using Video Security Data For Truly Intelligent Business Intelligence |
By Ian Westmacott
Using the data from video surveillance systems can provide your merchant clients with a wealth of information about your sales, workforce, and even the efficacy of marketing strategies. Understanding how to transform this data and use it intelligently, however, can be a challenge. |
| Whose WAN Is It Anyway? |
By Ted Schuman
There’s a business challenge brewing in the mainstream IT channel that some are ignoring, others are talking about, and a select few have embraced — and turned into a new relationship and a revenue opportunity that keeps on growing. It’s focused on the wide area network (WAN), ties back to the local area network (LAN), and includes everything and everyone that wants to securely connect to both. |
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