Charles Weaver, president of the MSPAlliance, makes a simple analogy for the concept of accrediting Managed Service Providers. “When I go to a doctor, I don’t understand anything about medicine, but I trust he does because of the certificates on his wall,” he said. “There needs to be that same level of trust in Managed…

Veritas is marketing its new Backup Reporter 6.0as a visibility tool for managed service providers with a need to analyze and rein in backup operations. The product is aimed at IT organizations with runaway storage environments full of heterogeneous systems that make tracking operations a bear, not to mention the compliance concerns. But in announcements…