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April 25, 2025  — 11 min read
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April 25, 2025  — 11 min read
How do patch management solutions increase MSPs and ITs operational efficiency?
In this article, we will cover in detail what patch management software is, why it is essential, what benefits it offers, how it works, and how it improves your business. Whether you already use patch management software and want a better solution or have not equipped your organization with such a tool, this article will answer your most important questions.
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:
May 01, 2019  — 3 min read
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May 01, 2019  — 3 min read
7 Tips to Make Windows Updates Error-Proof Instead of Error-Prone
In case you missed it, Microsoft issued a warning last Friday to alert users that they might experience issues with the upcoming May 2019 Update for Windows 10 (version 1903) – and the issues are difficult to avoid. The good news is that Microsoft’s proactive communications means you can take precautions to protect your data before you initiate the update. Use these seven tips to manage any changes ahead, whether it’s a standard Win 10 update, if your one of the 35% of companies upgrading from Win 7, or you’re coping with any future system update.
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 25, 2019  — 3 min read
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April 25, 2019  — 3 min read
Acronis Cyber Platform: Handing the Keys to Developers
In today’s digital world, data is the most valuable asset that your organization has. The data economy and its key driver, the democratization of data, is changing the competitive landscape everywhere. New industries are being built while traditional industries and business models are being destroyed. In addition, the amount of data and the the number of data sources is exploding because there are more apps, more “things”, more analysis of data, and more places to store data. As a result, most organizations are falling way behind in their ability to manage and protect data. When transforming to be a “data-driven” digital transformation success story in your market space, it’s critical to remember –  your team, your partners, your investors and your customers depend on your organization to effectively protect data from loss, theft and manipulation.
April 18, 2019  — 3 min read
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April 18, 2019  — 3 min read
Subscriptions vs Perpetual Licenses: What's Right for You?
Everyone knows that change can be difficult. From minor things like always eating the same food to serious examples like staying at a bad job, our comfort zone makes it difficult to try new things – even when we know the change will be good for us in the long run. The same is true in the software industry, where companies increasingly are replacing the one-time-purchase license for their product with cloud-based subscriptions. And while some customers might prefer buying a box and keeping the installation CD on the shelf, the benefits users gain from subscriptions are driving the subscription revolution.  We thought we’d take a look at the differences between traditional one-time purchases (called perpetual licenses) and subscriptions, so you can decide which approach fits your company’s needs when looking at a solution.
April 10, 2019  — 2 min read
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April 10, 2019  — 2 min read
Five Simple Steps to Better Backups
We might only be a few days removed from World Backup Day 2019, but the idea that 65% of consumers confirmed they suffered data loss (as revealed in our annual survey of attitudes and habits about data protection) has been rolling around in my head ever since. After all, that’s nearly 30% more people who reported they or a family member lost data in 2018 – a significant jump. The fact we all use more data and we’re accessing that data on more devices makes it obvious that we’re also creating more opportunities to lose that data – so that increase is understandable. But we still can take steps to try to reduce the frequency of data loss despite the increase in volumes and devices. It seems now is a great time for a reminder about the steps needed to keep your data safe. The following five recommendations are designed to help you negotiate the modern risks to your data given today’s habits of data use and the ever-evolving threats that lurk online.
April 09, 2019  — 4 min read
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April 09, 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.