Newsletter | October 14, 2011

10.14.11 -- How To Build A Backup Practice

Business Solutions Newsletter

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Your Customers Feel Threatened By Social Media
By Jay McCall, networking and managed services editor
A recent global study of 4,000 IT and IT security practitioners sponsored by Websense, a provider of unified web, email, and content security, revealed how much of a concern social media's threat really can be. I spoke with Tom Clare, senior director of product marketing at Websense, to get some perspective on the problem.
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Business Solutions Talks With Ted Roller, VP Of Channel Development At Intronis
In this Q&A we speak with Ted Roller, VP of Channel Development for Intronis and Chairman of the CompTIA MSP Partners Community.
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Who Owns The Customer When You Outsource?
By NetEnrich
If you missed our recent webinar with NetEnrich, which ran live on Sept. 15, you missed a full hour of advice about selling and managing virtualized environments from NetEnrich VP and GM Justin Crotty and Chris Cramer, owner of MSP I.T. Works.
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How To Build A Backup Practice
By Intronis
During this roundtable event on Tuesday, October 25, 2011, at 3 p.m. ET, your peers - other MSPs working in the trenches every day - share their experiences and advice on evaluated cloud-based products and vendors, evolving your SLAs for cloud-based products, selling online backup as more than just a single product, and targeting the right customers to build a successful backup practice.
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Do You Own Your Customers' Entire Environment?
By Jim Roddy, president
Learn how you can extend your managed services business (and profits!) without heavy investments in people or infrastructure during this free webinar at 2 p.m. ET, on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011.
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Data Protection And Backup: Questions To Consider When Creating Your Disaster Recovery Plan
By StorageCraft
When it comes to data protection and recovery, many businesses are not as safe as they believe. The first thing that comes to mind when considering a disaster recovery plan, by the average consumer and corporate technology professionals alike, is a backup of critical files.
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Treat Customer Interaction Like An Important Date
By Len DiCostanzo, senior VP of business development, Autotask
As a former solution provider, our goal was to own each piece of technology that helps support and run the client's business. This thought process is still the way it has to be done today. It is not about owning the office, but owning the IT solutions that resolve business needs, wherever those solutions are housed.
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ChannelEyes Creating The First Secure Social Network For The Channel

ChannelEyes recently announced that they are creating the first free and secure social network to aggregate channel program information, transforming communication between suppliers and channel partners, integrators, dealers, and agents.
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Scale Venture Partners Picks Axcient As Leader In SMB Data Protection & Continuity With $15.5M Investment

Axcient, Inc., a provider of comprehensive data backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery services to the small and mid-sized business (SMB) market, recently announced that it has raised $15.5M in new funding.
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Intronis' 5th Win For Best Revenue Generator At ASCII Reseller Success Summit Boston

Intronis, a provider of online backup and recovery solutions, was awarded its fifth consecutive Best Revenue Generator Award at the ASCII Reseller Success Summit in Boston, Massachusetts, this September.
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Symantec Survey Reveals Organizations Concerned Yet Optimistic About Security In The Cloud

Symantec Corp. recently announced the results of its 2011 State of Cloud Survey, which examined how organizations are adopting cloud computing and dealing with the changes it can impose on their approach to managing IT.
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StorageCraft, Datto Partner To Create A New Standard For BDR Solutions

StorageCraft Technology Corporation and Datto Inc. have joined to offer a backup and disaster recovery (BDR) solution that combines two products, StorageCraft ShadowProtect technology and Datto's SIRIS.
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Tigerpaw Partner Conference
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November 9-11, 2011 | Orlando, FL

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October 27, 2011 | Iselin, NJ

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