11.20.22 -- How To Take Your IT Business To Scale

Are you an IT provider still offering break-fix IT services? Are you ready to make the leap to a managed services model? This e-book shares seven strategies for breaking up with break-fix and moving on up toward monthly recurring revenue, or MRR, as a managed service provider (MSP). 

With more remote work, SaaS applications have become essential to supporting collaboration and ensuring easy access to files and folders from anywhere to keep workforces productive and connected. Unfortunately, many organizations still believe that these tools are completely secure and make the need for backup obsolete. This simply isn’t true. Backup is just as important for data in SaaS apps as it is for data hosted on-premises.

When a client’s server goes down or is compromised in a cyberattack, managed service providers (MSPs) need an effective business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solution to restore data and operations quickly, without sacrificing margin. Simply put, you need a solution you can rely on, one that delivers peace of mind — for you and your clients.

As cloud adoption continues to grow among small and medium businesses (SMBs), Microsoft Azure has emerged as a popular option. When SMBs run workloads in Azure, they agree to a shared responsibility model. In this model, the cloud provider (Microsoft) assumes responsibility for the security and protection of the physical data centers, hosts, and network, while the user is responsible for everything else.

In the first half of 2020, ransomware attacks grew by 715% as cybercriminals began exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic. This has only accelerated through 2021 and 2022.

Ransomware attacks can have serious financial implications for businesses, and ransom payment is just one complication. The business downtime associated with an attack can cripple revenue generation and the reputational damage to an organization that has been breached can take years to overcome.