5 Tech Trends You Need To Be Aware Of

Business Solutions Newsletter | February 07, 2017 | View web version here.   In This Issue: Managing Technicians In An MSP Business For Profitability 15 Tips To Avoid Being A Crypto Ransomware Victim Can vNAS Take vSAN To The Next Level? What's In Store For Storage? Big Data Has Changed Backup & Recovery: How You Need To Respond Avoid The RMM Shelfware Trap Onboard A Client Successfully With This 6-Step Process 5 Tech Trends You Need To Be Aware Of Featured Articles Managing Technicians In An MSP Business For Profitability When running a managed services provider business, the single largest part of the overall costs of doing business are technicians that support your end customer. Whether you are a small shop with outsourced technical help or a large MSP with a full complement of technicians and a service manager, consider this in-depth look at how to manage your technicians and keep your business profitable by defining in detail the roles and responsibilities of the services manager and technicians, as well as how to maximize the billability of each technician. 15 Tips To Avoid Being A Crypto Ransomware Victim Just taking a few simple steps can mean protecting your organization from the impact of suffering such an attack and not relying on the goodwill of a criminal to get your data restored and business productive. Can vNAS Take vSAN To The Next Level? vSAN enables customers to use storage within ESXi servers without the need for external storage. The prospect of vSAN being able to deliver fast, resilient, scale-out storage was exciting. Now that the bloom is gone from the rose, so to speak, what do users think of vSAN today? What's In Store For Storage? Get a look at what to be aware of in the coming year—everything from AI to HPC. Big Data Has Changed Backup & Recovery: How You Need To Respond Today, companies in all sectors have a massive demand for data. To succeed, they must be able to take in a large amount of data and process it in real time with no room for delays, lags, or hiccups. As the demand for efficiency and fast processing times has risen, companies around the world have been forced to move beyond the relational databases of yesteryear and into new, more capable data processing methods. Avoid The RMM Shelfware Trap Buying bundles is good if you use all of the products, or at least if you're not stuck paying extra for the products you don't use. But business-to-business software bundles are the exception to the rule. Onboard A Client Successfully With This 6-Step Process At some point in the marriage between you and your client, someone might drop the ball.  After this happens, the relationship will sour, and all anyone will want to do is to get away from each other - whether this happens two days before the contract is up or two days into a newly signed contract.  5 Tech Trends You Need To Be Aware Of Tech trends are perpetually shifting, and while only a few hang around to become long-term mainstays, these are the topics likely to be dominating conversation. Sponsor   ISC WEST is THE largest security industry trade show in the U.S. NEW for 2017 - Unmanned Security Expo - focusing on UAVs, UGVs and the various software and applications that support them. Also the Connected Security Expo (CSE) moved to the ISC West Show Floor - In today's world it is increasingly important for industry professionals to protect their organizations and clients from both physical and cyber threats. 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