Backup & Recovery/Business Continuity Featured Editorial

31. Overcome The Greatest MSP Challenge – Customer Acquisition 1/22/2021

    Running an MSP is tough. While growing numbers of small and midsize companies are outsourcing their IT operations, presenting countless opportunities for MSPs, taking time away from operations to capture these prospects is a challenge. The day-to-day operations that go into running an MSP don’t leave much time for email marketing campaigns, attending trade shows, or networking at local events. 

32. Backup Is The Backbone Of Cyber Resilience 12/14/2020

    As more employees work remotely and businesses rely more heavily on collaboration and filesharing applications, it’s critical to continually re-examine your backup and disaster recovery plan to ensure there are no gaps in your data protection. 

33. Go-To-Market Playbook: Selling Your BCDR Solution 12/11/2020

    In this installment of the go-to-market playbook for BCDR, we are going to deep dive into how to sell your BCDR solution to your prospects and clients.

34. Proper Backup: The Last Line Of Defense Against Ransomware And Cybercrime 12/8/2020

    Cybercrime and the scourge of ransomware break through the best defenses, even if you have layered security in place. Hackers are often after your data, corrupting it through viruses and malware, and locking it up for payment through ransomware. 

35. The MSP's Guide To Better BCDR 12/8/2020

    Your business hinges on an effective BCDR strategy. Learn what you need to do to beat downtime.

36. Cyber Resilience For Business Continuity 10/7/2020

    Ten years ago, you didn’t see state actors attacking [small businesses]. But it’s happening now, warns George Anderson, product marketing director at Carbonite + Webroot, OpenText companies.

37. Prepping For Disaster: How To Make Sure You're Prepared For Whatever The Earth Throws At You 9/30/2020

    Everyday we seem to read news of a disaster, natural or otherwise, affecting an area or the world. Wildfires and hurricanes in the US, tsunamis and earthquakes in Asia, and heat waves in Europe threaten the lives and livelihoods of people all over the world. Not to mention, the pandemic the world is still currently experiencing. From power outages to the complete loss of infrastructure, being prepared to be without has returned to the forefront of many people’s minds.

38. Buyer's Guide: DRaaS Features And Functionality 9/14/2020

    When a server stops responding, for whatever reason, the fastest way to resume service is to have a secondary environment ready to go. But traditionally, the redundant hardware, server space and additional human resources required have made this a prohibitive option. Most organizations simply cannot afford the costs and resources required to maintain secondary, off-site infrastructure. In the end, many IT departments simply live with the risk of potential business-ending outages.

39. As With Security, Data Backup Should Happen In Layers 7/15/2020

    As the folks at our partner company Webroot have recently tackled the issue of whether antivirus protection is worth paying for anymore, we thought we’d take a minute to reiterate why cloud backup still beats all the great free services our there like Google Drive and Dropbox.

40. Work From Home May Mean Working From Personal Devices; Don't Forget Backup And Security 7/1/2020

    Nestled within Webroot’s chapter on malware in its 2020 threat report is a comparison of infection rates between business and personal devices. The finding that personal devices are about twice as likely as business devices to become infected was always significant, if not surprising.