Backup & Recovery/Business Continuity Featured Editorial

  1. Rapid Recovery Planning Guide 6/17/2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the worldwide economy, an event unprecedented in modern times. The immediate future is uncertain, and yet we must plan and execute to keep our Solution Provider businesses moving ahead, and continue to serve our shareholders, business partners, customers and employees and their families as well as possible.

  2. Town Of Colonie Avoids More Than $400,000 In Ransom Due To Appliances And Backup 6/1/2020

    The stories of ransomware attacks have unfortunately become more common, especially among municipalities. But, when the Town of Colonie, in the greater Albany, NY region, became the latest to fall prey to a ransomware attempt, the outcome was different than many others thanks to protection from Carbonite. 

  3. MSP Erases Time Spent On Manual Backup Reporting 5/29/2020

    Spirit/21 is a managed service provider (MSP) with deep experience offering IT consulting, management, and digital transformation services to multi-national enterprises. With data backup and protection being one of the MSP’s core service offerings, they strive to ensure streamlined oversight over all internal and external customer environments to maintain high security standards.

  4. Cloud Storage vs. Cloud Backup 5/21/2020

    With more employees working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic, a lot of people are trying to figure out how to protect the files they’re working on outside the office. Some are stuck between “cloud storage” services and “cloud backup.” While many confuse the two, there are important differences.

  5. What You Need To Know About Backup And Backup As A Service 5/7/2020

    Matt Hall, Head of Global Sales at Bocada, has 20 years of experience developing and executing growth strategies. During that time he’s held leadership positions that have spanned general management with P&L responsibility, strategic alliances, product development, and corporate strategy. Hall also has experience building new lines of business in IT software and services and consumer payments.

  6. Carbonite Endpoint Encryption: An In-Depth Look At The Encryption Technology Behind Our Premium Endpoint Backup Solution 5/4/2020

    As one of our core pillars, addressing the end-to-end security and privacy of data is a primary requirement of Carbonite Endpoint. By utilizing our automated key management and encryption technology in conjunction with our unique data deduplication, both efficiency of data deduplication and security of data can be accomplished. This document describes the end-to-end encryption process and encryption key life cycle management.

  7. Increase Revenue With Office 365 Backup 5/4/2020

    Many IT service providers have moved, or are in the process of moving, their customers to Microsoft Office 365. Office 365 offers a variety of user benefits, including improved security, easier collaboration, increased mobility, and simplified pricing, among other things. It also offers benefits for service providers, such as ease of deployment and management, lower operating costs, and a foot in the door to other cloud services. 

  8. The Importance Of Microsoft 365 Backup 5/4/2020

    Developing an effective protection strategy for Microsoft 365 data.

  9. How MSPs Can Drastically Reduce Backup Storage Capacity Needs 4/23/2020

    A major US hospital group’s internal data security and backup team was responsible for managing backups that fully complied with organization and HIPAA regulations while keeping overhead costs as low as possible. Working in a resource-constrained environment, the team knew they had to manage their backup volume and minimize infrastructure usage. 

  10. How MSPs Can Use Backup Monitoring To Build Cybersecurity Defense 4/23/2020

    MSP customers dealing with a cybersecurity attack isn’t a matter of if but when. While putting the necessary barriers in place to ward off these attacks is a critical part of any cybersecurity strategy, knowing how the IT infrastructures you’re building are at rebounding from an event is just as important. After all, without a clear understanding of how well critical assets are protected on a recurring basis, you’ll never know until a cyberattack happens if you and your customers will be dealing with a catastrophic loss or an inconvenient blip to IT operations.