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Top 11 Cloud Managed Service Providers
Organizations en masse are adopting cloud infrastructure to compete with the ever-changing digital landscape. In the shift from legacy systems and physical, on-premises hardware, many companies are ill-equipped to make a more profound commitment to cloud workloads or don’t have the internal resources to do so effectively. Like managed services of decades past, big-name consultancies…
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Best Backup Solutions for MSPs to Protect Against Ransomware
Ransomware attacks have soared. A number of studies in the last year show it growing by triple-digit or greater percentages, and now comprises most malware. Every one of those attacks represents an attempt at digital extortion, and some go further, threatening to destroy data or leak embarrassing information of those who don’t pay. It has…
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How to Start a Managed Detection & Response (MDR) Business
The security sector is a vast area of confusion and upset for many small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Having implemented backup and antivirus (AV), they quickly found out that was not enough. They added another layer of security and then another: firewalls, anti-malware, patch management, intrusion detection, and more. Having implemented all that at great…
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MSP Survey Reveals Competitive Challenges in Cloud Era
The last year has obviously had a profound impact on managed service providers (MSPs), who have seen almost every aspect of their business transformed. A global survey of 1,884 MSPs conducted by Strategy Analytics on behalf of Datto Holding Corp, a provider of data protection and cybersecurity tools widely used by MSPs, finds half of…
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Data Protection Business Model Requires Nuanced Approach for MSPs
Data protection has been a lifeline for many managed services providers (MSPs) during turbulent times brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. A rise in ransomware attacks has forced more organizations than ever to rely on MSPs to ensure they can recover their data in the event their primary copy is encrypted by cybercriminals. The challenge…
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Starting an MSP Backup and Recovery Service: IT Partner Options
Backup and recovery has always been a critical IT issue but in the wake of a plague of crippling ransomware attacks, data protection is now a top priority for almost every organization of any size. That creates a stellar opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) – and indeed, backup and recovery was the top opportunity…
