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20 May 2025  — 22 min read
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20 May 2025  — 22 min read
From banks to battalions: SideWinder’s attacks on South Asia’s public sector
Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) uncovered a new SideWinder APT campaign targeting high-level government institutions in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
31 March 2020  — 4 min read
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31 March 2020  — 4 min read
What is an SDN switch?
In the traditional IT environment, a network switch (also called switching hub or bridging hub) is defined as a piece of hardware that utilizes packet switching to receive, process and forward data between devices within a computer network. Today, with the global rise of server virtualization, traditional network switches are being gradually replaced with software-defined network controllers (SDN switches) that rely on the code as opposed to network bridges and hardware.
10 March 2020  — 7 min read
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10 March 2020  — 7 min read
Outsourced Backup: The Complete Guide for Businesses
If you just Googled “outsourced backup” you are already on to something, having at least heard that backup and recovery are essential to protect your organization’s most precious asset – your data. Of course, the topic is a minefield for businesses to investigate: Each organization’s needs and budget are different.
28 January 2020  — 6 min read
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28 January 2020  — 6 min read
How to Deploy a Remote Backup Server: A Simple Guide to Effective Backup for Different Business Use-Cases
Backup today is a lifeline to the future for small, medium, and enterprise organizations alike. That’s because data is the world’s most valuable resource (more so than oil, according to The Economist) and you have to protect it. With a backup solution in place, businesses can keep running.
09 January 2020  — 4 min read
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09 January 2020  — 4 min read
Decisions, Decisions: How MSPs Can Use Third-Party Reports When Considering Ransomware Solutions
Ransomware and cyberattacks are in the news almost daily now. Small businesses are known to have weaker cybersecurity solutions in place and service providers are having a difficult time selecting, integrating and implementing modern solutions to prevent attacks. By 2021, the rate of ransomware impacting business is projected to be 11 attacks per minute.
26 June 2019  — 6 min read
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26 June 2019  — 6 min read
Why Delivering Managed IT Services is Advantageous – and How to Sell Them with Ease
Making money is the number one business objective no matter who you are or what you do. And with the global managed services market expected to hit $282 billion by 2021, it’s no surprise IT consultants and technology resellers are wondering: What are managed IT services really? Could it be a way to expand my business and get a piece of that pie?
22 May 2019  — 7 min read
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22 May 2019  — 7 min read
Why Acronis Files Cloud Is the most secure cloud file sharing service
Over a decade has passed since “cloud computing” entered the global vocabulary. In that time, the ideas of cloud computing, cloud storage, and cloud services have been depicted alternately as a fad and as the future of IT, as compellingly easy-to-use and unapproachably complex, and as woefully unsafe and more secure than traditional computing.
13 May 2019  — 13 min read
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13 May 2019  — 13 min read
Thirty-one top ops and security conferences in 2019
Whether you’re maintaining the IT infrastructure of a global enterprise or a thriving small business, you’re faced with an ever-changing and continuous set of challenges. Some of these might be unique to your organization’s situation but, more often than not, someone else has likely faced the same problem in the past.
05 May 2019  — 6 min read
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05 May 2019  — 6 min read
Leveraging MSP Marketing to Grow Your Business
While most businesses know they need someone responsible for IT, it can be a challenge for managed service providers (MSPs) that deliver IT services to close a sale quickly. Fortunately, MSP marketing helps close deals faster and open new revenue streams more efficiently.
05 May 2019  — 2 min read
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05 May 2019  — 2 min read
How Managed Service Providers Can Reduce the Proof of Concept Stage to Make a Sale Quickly
Even in a more efficient cloud world, IT service providers find that making a sale quickly is not a small hurdle. IT systems are so complex it takes time to vet new solutions given myriad use-cases. That process inevitably slows down the time it takes to actually close a sale.
03 May 2019  — 3 min read
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03 May 2019  — 3 min read
How Managed Service Providers Can Lower Overhead While Effortlessly Delivering More Services
Every business wants to earn more money. But that often involves three different, time-consuming elements that can be difficult to balance:
02 May 2019  — 2 min read
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02 May 2019  — 2 min read
How Managed Service Providers Can Boost Their Cloud Business by Delivering Affordable, Cutting-Edge Anti-Ransomware Protection
For a long time, only enterprises were able to afford sophisticated backup and cyber security solutions that ensure business continuity and prevent costly downtime and data restore expenses. This meant some SMBs were left to hope for the best with a cheaper, less effective solution while others skipped the investment altogether, jeopardizing their bottom line.
01 May 2019  — 2 min read
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01 May 2019  — 2 min read
How Managed Service Providers Can Reduce Churn - Three Easy Upsell and Cross-Sell Opportunities
Managed service providers (MSPs) may have hooked customers with basic IT services and done a great job making sure their brand is front-and-center for them – but they need to keep customers buying in order to grow. Studies show: