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Acronis: Extends Cloud Capabilities

Briefing Note: Acronis Releases New Cloud Solutions for Resellers Data Protection Is Not So Simple Anymore There was a time when protecting an organization’s data assets was a fairly straightforward and simple process. In those by-gone days, most organizations usually

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MSPs: Are You Considering All The Backup Angles?

An ideal addition to a Managed Service Provider (MSP) is cloud backup. But it is a very competitive market. The MSP is replacing an existing IT service, one they may want to get rid of, but one that they do

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MeetTheCEO: Cloud DR Vendor Infrascale’s CEO Ken Shaw

In this week’s MeetTheCEO, George Crump and I sit down Ken Shaw, the CEO of Infrascale, a Cloud DR vendor. Infrascale provides backup, recovery and disaster recovery as services. Join in this podcast as we learn about this CEO from

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Webinar: 3 Important Factors for MSPs Adding Cloud Backup to Their Portfolio

Backup, unless you are focused on it, is hard. Enterprises of all sizes are looking to outsource the problem child to someone that can babysit it. MSPs are in an excellent position to not only assist organizations but grow their

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Flash as RAM not Storage

Briefing Note: Diablo Delivers Flash As Memory Since its introduction to the enterprise, flash has been viewed as an expensive but fast alternative to the hard disk drive, but not as inexpensive as RAM. Flash implementation options like PCIe SSDs

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Infrascale Launches Cloud Failover Appliance with Complete DRaaS Functionality

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solves some important problems that administrators at small and medium-sized organizations face. When done correctly, it can provide a turnkey service that eliminates the need for managing a secondary recovery site and automate the process

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Reining in Runaway Data Sprawl

Briefing Note: Komprise Data Management Solution As anyone who has been in IT for a while knows, modern organizations are swamped by what has been called a “tsunami of data.” Various industry sources have indicated that data is more than

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MeetTheCEO: Cloud Backup Provider Datto’s Austin McChord

There has been an unprecedented number of companies entering the cloud backup market in recent years but Datto’s founder and CEO Austin McChord has been at it since 2007. In this MeetTheCEO podcast we learn about McChord and his unique

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Evolving Data Protection to the Cloud

Briefing Note: Arcserve Cloud When it comes to data protection, it is very beneficial for a backup and recovery software company to have an in depth understanding of how data protection needs and challenges have developed over the years. Shortly

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MeetTheCEO: Hybrid Cloud Provider KeyInfo’s CEO Lief Morin

Our ongoing MeetTheCEO series continues. Listen as the CEO of Key Information Systems, Lief Morin, joins George Crump and Charlie Hodges to discuss how traditional mid-market organizations can implement a hybrid cloud to solve a variety of business challenges as well as what Morin is doing for fun this summer!

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