Newsletter | June 6, 2012

06.06.12 -- Do You Recognize The Difference Between BDR And Business Continuity?

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Axios IT Improves Client Service And Maximizes Profit Through Network Monitoring And Business Automation
By Quest Software/PacketTrap
PacketTrap MSP has lessened the burden by simplifying common business processes through integration with a professional service automation (PSA) solution. PSA tools, such as Autotask service management that Axios has deployed, enable MSPs to track technician time, generate bills and invoices, and report on service activity.
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N-able's newest white paper, The 7 Keys to MSP Success, from N-able Technologies, reveals how the world's most successful and profitable MSPs deliver consistent, repeatable, scalable services with optimal efficiency — and dominate their market. N-able works with over 2,500 MSPs around the world. Over the past 12 years their top-performing partners consistently grow profitable, scalable businesses with recurring revenues and improved business valuations. In this paper, the experts at N-able boiled down their observations, and 10+ years of experience working with top MSPs, to seven key success factors.

Why Service-Level Management Is Mission Critical For All IT Service Providers
By Len DiCostanzo, senior VP, dean of Autotask Academy, Autotask Corporation
At the heart of almost every business relationship are expectations, expectations that have to be set, managed, and met, or exceeded. When it comes to IT services, your clients' expectations are going to revolve around the specific services you are delivering and the promises or claims that you make related to them.
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Business Continuity Selling And Planning Essentials For MSPs
By Continuum Managed Services, LLC
Market research has shown time and time again that every company needs a business continuity strategy, especially given the significant financial and business repercussions a disaster can have. According to research from the Gartner Group, the average cost of a single incident of data loss can exceed $10,000.
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Megatrend Two: SaaS And Cloud Computing Change The Game
By Peter Sandiford, CEO, Level Platforms
Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing are key elements of an unstoppable trend toward the delivery of IT applications using technology located outside the customer-owned local infrastructure.
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Do You Recognize The Difference Between BDR And Business Continuity?
By Matt Reilly, marketing coordinator, Datto
Understanding RTO (recovery time objective) is a key to knowing the difference between BDR and true business continuity.
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Where Are They Now? IT Authorities
By Jay McCall, networking and managed services editor
When we last spoke with IT Authorities, which describes itself as a pure managed services provider, it had already grown by 377% during the previous three years. Like you, we’re always curious to find out how sustainable that kind of growth is, and what are some things the really successful solutions and services providers are doing that you may not be doing — but could be. I caught up with Jason Caras, co-CEO of IT Authorities, to get those answers.
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News

New Active Archive Certified Architect Program Introduced By The Active Archive Alliance

The Active Archive Alliance announced today that it will be hosting its initial VAR certification program June 6 to 7, 2012, at the Chicago Marriott O’Hare in Chicago, Illinois.
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IdeaCentre A720 All-In-One Now On Sale

Lenovo recently announced its IdeaCentre A720 all-in-one (AIO) desktop is available for purchase on Lenovo.com.
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Eaton’s Latest Intelligent Power Manager Continues To Help IT Managers Reap The Benefits Of Virtualization

Eaton Corporation recently announced the latest version of its Intelligent Power Manager software with new capabilities designed to remotely shut down a host server during a power outage within VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) mode.
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NAS Optimization Top Choice in Addressing Performance Challenges

Avere Systems recently announced the results of a third-party survey that shows NAS Optimization as the top choice of solutions being considered by IT executives to meet the challenges to storage performance posed by virtualization.
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LabTech Releases Native Mac, Linux Agents

LabTech Software, a remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform developed by a managed service provider (MSP) for managed service providers, recently announced new native Mac and Linux agents for LabTech software, enabling a broader range of supported administration, configuration, and remote troubleshooting capabilities.
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Shows and Events

ASCII Success Summit
June 28, 2012 | Washington, D.C.

CompTIA Breakaway
July 30 - August 2, 2012 | Las Vegas

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