Data Management Blog

Top 3 Considerations When Building Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Service Offerings

Bennett Klein — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:58:00 GMT

When it comes to Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR), SMBs have similar needs as large enterprises, but a lack of IT resources, budget and experience can be overwhelming. This presents a tremendous opportunity for MSPs to build lucrative, value-added BC/DR services-whether they use their own hosting facilities or leverage others such as a public cloud. First, let's...

Leveraging The Cloud For Disaster Recovery

Bennett Klein — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:50:00 GMT

Using public cloud resources can provide remote facilities, staffing and resources for disaster recovery planning if you don’t have your own. It can make an IT organization more agile and flexible as they can add or remove resources and staff as needed, and typically pay only for what they use – helping maximize budgets. The cloud offers businesses and non-profit organization a way to convert...

For MSPs, licensing structures count

Michael Crest — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:07:00 GMT

MSPs are poised on the brink of a tremendous market opportunity. IT organizations are woefully under-resourced given the demands of the business, so they desperately need to offload “chore” tasks to MSPs in order to focus on “core” ones. But MSPs need to do three things to succeed: Craft portfolios of service offerings that tightly align with the actual needs of their target customers...

Data Protection & Cloud Computing: It Makes Economic Sense

Chris Ross — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:16:00 GMT

Market analysts suggest that the eurozone's economy will not grow this quarter and that both consumer and investor confidence is weakening. Inevitably, the IT department will come under even greater scrutiny and will need to demonstrate that it is maximising efficiency and managing costs tightly. New research we’ve just published, "Insights: Data Protection and the Cloud 2011",...

Moving Targets

Michael Crest — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:19:00 GMT

It’s harder to hit a moving target than a stationary one. That’s why T-ball is easier than hitting a big leaguer’s curve—and why skeet shooting is harder than target practice. For IT operations, the cloud has made data protection and business continuity a moving target. The server and storage infrastructure associated with any given business service can now be located anywhere within...