We have been working hard for the past months and are happy to announce that the new MSP360 Managed Backup 5.2 is finally here! This massive milestone release introduces the new backup format, which allows for a number of amazing features. Continue reading
According to the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., 93% of companies that experienced a data loss resulting in downtime of over 10 days filed for bankruptcy within a year of the disaster. Half of these did so immediately.
BCDR stands for “business continuity and disaster recovery.” This term aggregates the strategy and the collection of approaches that a business needs to implement in order to keep at least mission-critical functions up and running during and after any unplanned event or a disaster.
Ηaving a robust business continuity and disaster recovery plan is essential. These plans outline strategies for ensuring your organization can continue operations in the face of disruptions. The following video, clarifies the distinction between business continuity and disaster recovery plans and guide you through the key steps involved in creating both. Discover how MSP360 can help you develop a comprehensive data protection that safeguards your business's resilience.
Data loss is a very real threat to business operations worldwide. However, many small to medium-sized companies often view protective or proactive actions as unnecessary.
For MSPs, it is important to be more than a reseller or service provider. It is equally necessary to become a business partner that can identify risks and threats and can recommend proactive actions and solutions to protect business operations if a disaster occurs. Continue reading
The whole world has changed due to the pandemic. Many companies are making their best to help others to withstand the impact. At MSP360 we are also developing a solution to help our customers. Read on for the official message from MSP360 CEO, Brian Helwig.
Archives and backups serve two separate functions. However, it is common to hear the terms used interchangeably in the context of cloud storage.
Businesses need to realize the differences between the two to make sure their data storage methodology meets their requirements in various key areas: Continue reading
Our clients who want to store backup data in Amazon S3 Glacier often ask us how best to back it up: Whether to place it in S3 Glacier storage directly, or instead to select S3 generic storage and configure S3 Glacier as the storage class. Although both approaches provide the same end result, there are reasons why you might prefer one method over the other. Keep reading for an overview.
Backup is one of the most important practices for any business and should be approached with care and attention to detail. Your choice of retention and scheduling scenarios should be based on your business needs.
In this article we’ll talk about essential retention considerations and assets which will help you set up your backups properly. Continue reading
Managing one server can be complicated enough, but what if you have multiple platforms to protect? Multi-server platforms are more common as we transition to an environment of highly distributed, cloud-based platforms. As we move further, multi-tenancy is becoming the new black when it comes to digital ecosystems. Continue reading
The ever-expanding role of data in every facet of our lives has made it increasingly important to plan for the possibility that something might go wrong. And given the various threats to data, chances are it probably will. That’s why you should be prepared all the time. Continue reading
Setting prices for managed backup services is a difficult task. There are many factors to weigh and variables to consider, such as whether you should discount for archival storage tiers and whether to include disaster recovery services as part of managed backup pricing. Continue reading
Many backup and disaster recovery (BDR) vendors in the market host backups in their own clouds. While this doesn’t sound like a big deal, it can be, especially when considering control, security, and pricing.
