Business Health, Patient Health

Ebook: Five Prescriptions to Stop Healthcare Disasters

Healthcare is one of the most complex industries when it comes to IT support. Sprawling infrastructure, complicated and occasionally customized hardware and software, and a bevy of strict government restrictions make offering More »

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Ebook: Five Lessons about Disaster Recovery from Hurricane Sandy

If you’re looking for some doom and gloom from the hurricane, you won’t find it here. Don’t get us wrong. Hurricane Sandy was destructive and terrible and it’s hard to say that More »

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CASE STUDY: Citrus Networking Solutions Group Avoids Disaster

If you run a business in Florida, “Hurricane Central, USA,” you’d better prepare for storms. But if you run a business that keeps other Florida businesses running, you either prepare or…you’re out More »

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CASE STUDY: ITDRC and StorageCraft

Disaster recovery planning is sort of like flossing. One is a simple task that doesn’t take much time, and if you do it correctly, it’s an ongoing process. However, if you don’t More »

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Ebook: How to Prepare for Disaster

Joe, Teresa, and John have never met, but they have a lot in common. Each has used a backup and disaster recovery plan to recover from a disaster. And each of them More »

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Ebook: Why You Need Backup and Disaster Recovery

We all know the statistics. We’ve all heard the horror stories. But when it comes right down to it, can you really explain to your clients (or to yourself) why you need More »

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CASE STUDY: ACT Network Solutions Flies Through Recovery

Looking to deploy a backup and disaster recovery solution to protect your company’s mission-critical data and employee productivity? Don’t overlook the biggest risks to business continuity. What would happen if one or More »

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CASE STUDY: Cobaltix Unites Disaster Recovery Planning and Technology

There are really two components to disaster recovery: the technology and the plan. You need both to be successful, but they’re not independent pieces. For everything to work, the technology needs to More »

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WHITE PAPER: Cloud, Fog, or Smog

We recently announced the upcoming StorageCraft Cloud Services, which will be available this fall. This paper explores the current state of cloud computing and outlines our philosophy for what a good cloud computing More »

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CASE STUDY: SNC Squared Recovers from a Deadly Tornado

It’s late afternoon on Sunday, May 22, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri. The world’s single deadliest tornado flattens your building. Pieces of your office—walls, computers, furniture, files, and more­—­­­scatter for miles, carried away More »

Tech Tips with Steve Episode Seven: Pre-Staging a Restore Using HeadStart Restore

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Tech tips. In this episode, Steve shows you how to pre-stage a recovery for lightning fast restores using StorageCraft HeadStart Restore.

The Land of Virtualization: Where Virtual Machines Reign Supreme

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Virtualization has proven to be one of the most useful computing technologies to come around in a long time. Organizations of all sizes are using it to …

StorageCraft Recover-Ability: Manage

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The StorageCraft Recover-Ability Solution has four key components, the third of which is being able to manage and monitor your backup environment.

Are Your Products and Services Cheap or Inexpensive?

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Are your goods and services cheap and ineffective, or effective and at a low-cost? Wording is everything in marketing. The way you describe yourself tells customers the whole story.

Disaster Recovery: Restoration Staggering Helpful for Large Environments

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When it comes to disaster recovery, large businesses have their own special challenges that don’t impact smaller enterprises in the same way or to the s…

Tech Tips with Steve Episode Six: Offsite Replication with ImageManager

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Tech tips. In this episode, Steve shows you how to replicate offsite with StorageCraft ImageManager.

What Lee Corso Taught Us at Varnex Spring

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There’s a lot you can learn at a conference, here’s what ESPN sports personality Lee Corso had to say.

More businesses will support BYOD in near future

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The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon is greatly influencing the entire information technology industry, thanks to the growing popularity of powerful gadgets like smartphones and tablets.

Future mobile applications expected to include more cloud back-end services

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The information technology (IT) industry is experiencing several changes as a direct result of new solutions and trends like cloud computing and enterprise mobility.

Why 3D Printing Technology Should Have MSPs on Notice

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MSPs can benefit from learning how to support razor-edge technologies of the future. One technology taking flight with rocket speed is 3D printing.

StorageCraft Cloud Services Education—enroll in StorageCraft Academy to get the training you need

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Get the reseller training you need to deploy StorageCraft Cloud Services in your disaster recovery business. Enroll in StorageCraft Academy today.

Tech Tips with Steve Episode Five: Using New Features of ImageManager 6

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Tech Tips. In this episode, Steve walks you through just how easy it is to use features like enhanced collapse and consolidation, rolling consolidation, and bandwidth throttling using StorageCraft ImageManager 6.

University transitions from on-site to cloud backup

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Cloud computing may have gained its fame as a viable technology throughout the corporate sector, but even universities and colleges are finding out that the solution offers a number of attractive advantages.

Beyond the Cloud: Three Segments Driving Growth in the IT Industry

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The cloud is driving a lot of revenue in the IT industry, but that’s only part of the story. Here are a few other growing segments steering the industry toward growth.

IT industry becoming increasingly mobile

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The popularity of smartphones has taken the information technology (IT) industry by storm.

While Mobile Explodes, PCs Quietly Remain Relevant

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Mobile devices like smart phones and tablets are on the rise. Are PCs in danger of losing relevance in the face of mobile alternatives?

Tech Tips with Steve Episode Four: Setting up a VPN with Cloud Services

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In this episode, Steve walks you through just how quickly you can set up a virtual private network (VPN) using StorageCraft Cloud Services.

StorageCraft Makes Cloud Services Available to U.S., Canadian Distributors

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StorageCraft Cloud Services are now available to U.S. and Canadian distributors.

Wanted: Backup & Recovery Options

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Having the right backup and disaster recovery solution isn’t just about taking backups, it’s also about giving yourself a whole slew of options…

StorageCraft Recover-Ability: Replicate

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Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a series outlining the StorageCraft Recover-Ability solution. Last week’s post focused on Backup. While the foundation of any good disaster recovery plan is to start with a good backup, equally important is having a separate copy of your backup in another site. Any storage industry analyst will

Do You Have Small Business Envy?

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Holly Wainwright, Content Marketing Manager of Datto (StorageCraft alliance partner), analyzes what businesses are doing to compete with the larger ones and how their innovative nature allows them to expand.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Free Space (On a Hard Drive)

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There’s a lot we can talk about when it comes to space. This article is designed to help you understand how much free space you need for various StorageCraft ShadowProtect and StorageCraft ImageManager processes, and to offer some best practices when it comes to monitoring free space on various volumes.

Webinar: Disaster Recovery: Fast, Easy, and Self-Service

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Watch Disaster Recovery: Fast, Easy, and Self-Service, where you’ll learn about some of the problems with traditional backup tools and recovery services and ways that StorageCraft’s ShadowProtect and ImageManager can give VARs and their clients the tools they need to recover fast in the event of a disaster.

Tech Tips with Steve Episode Three: Recover a File Using StorageCraft Cloud Services

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In this tech tip, our very own technical marketing manager, Steven Snyder, walks you through just how easy it is to recover a file using StorageCraft Cloud Services.

Public clouds influencing many aspects of IT industry

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Some IT professionals used to question whether cloud computing had staying power or not, but these assertions appear to have missed the mark.