Progressive managed service providers are always looking to capture new revenue and retain loyal clients by delivering more value. Often this means looking at expanding the services catalog far beyond being a break/fix hosting provider. Mid-sized MSPs today are listening to the market and being open minded about new possibilities. Continue reading
Disaster recovery testing is the process to ensure that an organization can restore data and applications and continue operations after an interruption of its services, critical IT failure or complete disruption. It is necessary to document this process and review it from time to time with their clients. It will ensure that you know how to save your client in the event of any fail. Keep reading to learn more about disaster recovery testing scenarios and disaster recovery testing best practices. Continue reading
Being prepared for a disaster starts with a plan. Creating a disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a documented set of procedures to execute to recover a business IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster. Continue reading
If you're an MSP and manage an organization's infrastructure, sooner or later, you'll be faced with a phishing attack against the organization. What can you do to respond to such an attack in order to control possible damage and prevent further disruption? Keep reading for tips. Continue reading
Phishing attacks (in which hackers send fake emails in an effort to trick users into clicking malicious links or giving away private information) have been around for decades. But they are constantly evolving, with new types of phishing attacks (such as spear phishing and clone phishing) targeting users. Continue reading
The internet can be a dangerous place no matter how tech-savvy you are. Massive data breaches have become a part of the daily news cycle, mainly because of the vast number of hackers out there looking for new ways to infiltrate systems and steal private information. Continue reading
For small and medium-sized businesses Network-Attached Storage (NAS) is a convenient and cost-effective storage solution. NAS devices make it easy to expand the amount of storage available to your workstations and servers while keeping the data on your own infrastructure and local network. NAS devices also usually make it easy to configure redundant storage using RAID arrays or a similar technique.
A QNAP NAS is a great way to keep data safe and available. But the fact is that even if you have data redundancy built into the NAS, it’s still important to perform QNAP cloud backups as well to back up your NAS data to a remote location. Not only does backing up QNAP data to the cloud help you to meet the requirements of the 3-2-1 backup rule, but it may also be required by compliance regulations. Continue reading
In case that you don’t have the opportunity to activate your copy of MSP360 Explorer, MSP360 Backup, or MSP360 Drive online, you can use the offline activation.
Offline activation can be done via the command-line interface of the product, as well as via a graphical interface (check out this article for instructions). Continue reading
Azure Blob Storage offers an opportunity for organizations that store data in Azure to minimize cloud storage costs. For that, Microsoft has developed access tiers for your data. Below, we compare and contrast the different Azure storage tiers available and explain which Blob storage tiers to use under which conditions in order to strike the right balance between data availability and price.
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To use Amazon S3 effectively, you need to be aware of the security mechanisms provided by AWS to control your S3 resources. This e-book will help you to master these mechanisms.
This article covers all the fundamental basics of HIPAA cloud backup compliance. More specifically, it discusses the essential principles of HIPAA, how and why HIPAA legislation is relevant to your cloud backup strategy, plus of course, how to comply with HIPAA when you’re backing up to the cloud. Continue reading
