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May 16, 2019  — 6 min read
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May 16, 2019  — 6 min read
Reducing Downtime Costs In Automotive Manufacturing With Improved Cyber Protection
A combination of legacy IT systems on the factory floor, lack of skilled local IT support, and growing data volumes driven by emerging technologies like smart sensors and IoT devices is driving up downtime costs in automotive manufacturing. The future of the automotive manufacturing industry depends on its ability to improve business continuity and reduce downtime costs by deploying data-center-quality cyber protection at the plant level.   By James R. Slaby
May 14, 2019  — 8 min read
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May 14, 2019  — 8 min read
How to Choose Your Business’ Perfect Data Backup Services
Data is the lifeblood of a successful business. It enables companies, from fledgling start-ups to the world’s biggest enterprises, to maintain business-as-usual and grow through data-backed strategies. The trouble is, with so much of modern business success riding on properly maintained and readily accessible business data, the consequences of data loss have never been more serious.
May 13, 2019  — 13 min read
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May 13, 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.
May 07, 2019  — 5 min read
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May 07, 2019  — 5 min read
Google Cloud Platform: What it is, how to use it, and how it compares
The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a platform that delivers over 90 information technology services (aka products), which businesses, IT professionals, and developers can leverage to work more efficiently, gain more flexibility, and/or enable a strategic advantage.
May 05, 2019  — 6 min read
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May 05, 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.
May 05, 2019  — 2 min read
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May 05, 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.
May 03, 2019  — 3 min read
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May 03, 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:
May 02, 2019  — 2 min read
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May 02, 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.
May 01, 2019  — 2 min read
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May 01, 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:
April 25, 2019  — 5 min read
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April 25, 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.
April 25, 2019  — 2 min read
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April 25, 2019  — 2 min read
Just Opened: Early Access to the Acronis Cyber Platform
Today we announced that we’re opening the Acronis Cyber Platform to give developers, ISVs, OEMs, service providers, and others access to our core platform. This early access is designed to encourage expanded functionality and application integrations by developers while giving them access to Acronis’ large ecosystem. The Acronis Cyber Platform, which is the foundation of the company’s existing services, features a series of APIs supported by software development kits (SDK) and sample code. With today’s early access, developers can have the kind of access was previously available only to Acronis and select integration partners such as ConnectWise, Microsoft and Google.
April 19, 2019  — 4 min read
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April 19, 2019  — 4 min read
For Businesses Everywhere, The Coming Win 7 End of Life Looms Large
When setting the annual IT budget, a lot of businesses seem to lean on the old adage “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That would at least explain why Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system – which admittedly has been a reliable workhorse – still owns 35 percent of the market nearly 10 years after its release. Now that the Windows 7 End of Life (EOL) deadline is less than a year away, a lot of companies are suddenly realizing they need to act fast to ensure their computers are supported after January 15, 2020.