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08 April 2025  — 3 min read
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08 April 2025  — 3 min read
Acronis Cyberthreats Update, April 2025
The Acronis Cyberthreats Update covers current cyberthreat activity and trends, as observed by the Acronis Threat Research Unit.
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:
25 April 2019  — 5 min read
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25 April 2019  — 5 min read
10 MSPs in the USA You Should Keep an Eye On
To stay competitive and agile in an increasingly digital world, businesses are relying more and more on managed service providers (MSPs) in the USA, primarily, for IT support. In fact two years ago, 64 percent of organizations reported using MSPs in one form or another — and that growth shows no sign of slowing.
09 April 2019  — 4 min read
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09 April 2019  — 4 min read
How Managed Service Providers Can Differentiate Their Cloud Business with the Cyber Protection Advantage
Today rising downtime costs, pressing data privacy concerns, crippling non-compliance penalties, and new, ever-evolving digital security threats have raised the stakes for business managers and service providers alike. Customers are rightfully concerned about modern data threats.
25 March 2019  — 4 min read
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25 March 2019  — 4 min read
Standing Out From The Crowd: The Business Potential of Cloud-based Blockchain Notarization
Considering the business opportunities on the horizon for cloud-based service providers, it’s no wonder there’s been an explosion of new competitors entering the market. After all, when Gartner projects revenues from public cloud services will jump 62.3 percent in the next three years, a lot of johnny-come-latelies will try cashing in – flooding the market with competition. Cloud service providers looking to differentiate their portfolio must offer solutions built for the business needs of today and the future.