Newsletter | August 29, 2012

08.29.12 -- What 1,800 MSPs Can Teach You About Your Business

Business Solutions Newsletter

| Storage & General Computing Edition

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Pricing Online Backup To Your Client Base
By Intronis
You have a great online backup solution. You have a customer base that needs the service. But how do you structure your pricing to make profits?
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If You Don’t Start Selling Flash Storage Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later
By Jay McCall, networking and managed services editor
If you’re currently selling backup and business continuity solutions, there’s a good chance you’re offering a disk-based solution that includes a local backup server coupled with a remote backup solution. However, have you considered what you could be missing by not also selling flash-based storage?
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What 1,800 MSPs Can Teach You About Your Business
By N-able Technologies Inc.
A recent N-able Technologies survey of 1,800 MSPs reveals specific growth opportunities for MSPs that are able to convert customers from break-fix programs to managed services plans.
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Join The “IN-Crowd” At ASIS 2012

ASIS draws the top players in the industry — in every sector, every year. More than half of the 20,000 attendees don’t attend any other show. So if you want to rub elbows with security movers and shakers, you need to roll up your sleeves here. Get INside the Expo and touch the technology with more than 700 exhibitors. Expo admission is free in advance. Use the Show Planner to view sessions in 24 topic tracks and search exhibitors, products, and more. Visit www.asis2012.org for details and register today.

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September 10 to 13, 2012 | Philadelphia, PA

A Clear Path To Private Storage Clouds
By Brent Rhymes, CEO, iWave Software
The possibility of a data explosion burning out talented IT staff is driving the popularity of storage automation and storage-as-a-service within enterprises.
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Cloud Computing Growth = IT Disruption, New CompTIA Study Reveals
The increasingly integral role of cloud computing in IT operations is accompanied by significant change and disruption for cloud users, their IT staffs and their technology providers, new research released recently by CompTIA, the leading non-profit association for the information technology (IT) industry, reveals.
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Guest Column

Securing The Cloud With A VAR, MSP, ISV Audience In Mind
By Andrew Hay, chief evangelist, CloudPassage

Customers have always looked to their vendors, be they VARs, MSPs or ISVs, to distill the challenges of migrating to a computing architecture. This continues to be true with regards to cloud — perhaps one of the most misunderstood and confusing architectures to arrive since the introduction of the personal computer to replace aging mainframe technology.
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News

Nimbus Data Launches Powerful New Flash Memory Arrays

Continuum Enhances Its Service Desk With Live 24 x 7 Coverage And CRM Integration

NexGen Storage Delivers Increased Performance, Capacity, And Flexibility With New n5 Series PCIe Solid State Systems

Avere Introduces Latest Entry To Its FXT Series Edge Filers

Nexsan First To Qualify And Ship Storage Systems With 4-TB HGST Enterprise-Class Drives

Industry Webinar

Growing Your MSP Using Guerrilla Marketing

August 30, 2012 | 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. EDT

Looking for ways to expand your MSP or IT support business but just don't have the surplus cash? Why not try guerrilla marketing? Seth Oxhandler, CEO of Cool Cat Inc, shows you how he expanded his business through the use of some unconventional sales and marketing techniques.
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Shows And Events

ASCII
September 20, 2012 | Rosemont, IL

N-able 2012 North American Partner Summit
September 20 and 21, 2012 | Santa Clara, CA

MSPWorld
October 3 to 5, 2012 | Austin, TX

SMB Nation
October 12 to 14, 2012 | Las Vegas, NV

IT Nation 2012
November 8 to 10, 2012 | Orlando, FL

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