Tag Archives: MSP

Multiple Platforms Equal More Money, More Problems For MSPs

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The ability to support multiple platforms is becoming a critical need as IT environments grow in diversity. But for a managed service provider,…

Three Must-Have Features in a Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution

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As senior disaster recovery engineer at Speros, Van Heath looks for three simple requirements in a backup and disaster recovery solution. It must be flexible, fast, and foolproof. According to Van, here’s how StorageCraft ShadowProtect meets those requirements: Flexible. “A big plus for StorageCraft is that it’s vendor neutral. We can restore to dissimilar hardware,

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.

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.

Managed Service Providers Can Help SMBs Overcome Major Growth Hurdles

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One of the goals common to nearly all small businesses is to grow. Challenges come with growth, especially when it comes to technology. Hiring managed service providers can help you accommodate growth.

To Be A Managed Service Provider: The Road From VAR

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Managed services are among the most highly sought after services in the IT industry. But how can a VAR become an MSP? We’ll walk you through what you need to know.

Three Ways Managed Service Providers Can Adapt to the Growing Demands of IT

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Three great ways managed service providers can adapt and conquer in the growing world of technology.

Backup and Disaster Recovery: Critical to Growing Companies

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Is your business growing more quickly than you expected? If so, congratulations! Though you likely have your hands full with training additional staff, increasing sales, and an expanding customer base, don’t forget to address a critical element of sound business management: planning for disaster recovery and business continuity in the face of an unexpected catastrophe.

Taking a Page from the Book of Google

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Learn how Google’s Larry Page approaches business and how you can use their daring philosophies to improve your business.

StorageCraft Partners Recognized in SMB 150

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StorageCraft is proud to recognize this year’s SMB Nation and SMB Technology Network 2013 SMB 150 winners.

Pricing Your Managed Services Offering: Why the Per User Model Makes Sense!

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Many managed service providers (MSPs) struggle when determining how to price their offering. Should they do it per-device or per-user? In the past, it seems that per-device was the model of choice, but times are changing.

Broken New Year’s Resolutions… Not for Social Media

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Our friend Gabe at Chartec explains how you can promote more social media engagement.

Quarter of businesses lack disaster recovery plans

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A recent survey conducted by SolarWinds and Network World found that as many as 25 percent of organizations have no disaster preparedness or response plan.

StorageCraft MSP Model: A Great Way to Protect Your Clients

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The MSP model allows us to sell software for a monthly fee on a month-to-month basis; the StorageCraft solution is much easier for a client to adopt at a monthly rate as opposed to purchasing the full version with maintenance.

StorageCraft: the MSP’s Best Friend

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StorageCraft has been working with Managed Service Providers (MSPs) for about six years now. You may not know, but StorageCraft was one of the first companies to offer our backup and disaster recovery solution, StorageCraft ShadowProtect, to MSPs on a monthly subscription basis. So we’ve pretty much been out in front of the disaster recovery

I Am Data Man

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Last week, we introduced the StorageCraft Recover-Ability Solution, which takes the newest versions of StorageCraft ShadowProtect and StorageCraft ImageManager and adds to them StorageCraft Cloud Services to create a complete, end-to-end business continuity and disaster recovery solution. Today, we’re proud to introduce the mascot  of the Recover-Ability Solution, Data Man, now playing in his very

Adding a Loaner “Lifeboat” Server to Your Managed Service Offering

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Vince Tinnirello is the founder and CEO of Anchor Nework Solutions. As IT managed service providers, we’re always looking for ways to differentiate ourselves and provide value to our clients.  How can we deliver more services to them?  Can we do this without having to increase the cost to clients?  What unique needs do our

CASE STUDY: Citrus Networking Solutions Group Avoids Disaster

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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 of business. No one understands being prepared like Teresa Bell. She’s the founder, president, and CEO of Citrus Networking Solutions Group (CNSG), a

Avoiding virtualized storage performance issues

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As companies continue to look for innovative ways to reduce IT expenses, enhance data backup solutions, and boost support of their digital environments, virtualization is gaining momentum in the private sector.

Demand for MSPs Focused On Disaster Recovery Grows

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I hear it again and again. When it comes to disaster recovery, cloud computing, and IT security services, decision makers increasingly look to MSPs to handle their needs. In fact, Dan Berthiaume of MSPMentor recently claimed in his blog, MSPs get the call for Disaster Recovery, IT Security, that MSPs are the number one choice

Friends Who Take Care of Toys

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At a certain age, we’re all in the dark about the importance of keeping our things safe. As children we leave our bikes in the rain and scatter our toys across the floor where they inevitably lance our mothers’ already tired feet. Then we start to learn that if we take care of our things,

You Asked, We Listened

By now you may have heard that we’ve announced new virtual server pricing for MSPs on our flagship product, ShadowProtect®. We’ve had special pricing for virtual servers for a while, and our MSP partners have been asking for the same thing with ShadowProtect® for Managed Service Providers™.  Now the price discount is across the board

StorageCraft Announces Virtual Server Pricing for MSPs

ShadowProtect for Managed Service Providers gets new pricing option *** DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – Jan. 19, 2012 – StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of best-in-class backup, disaster recovery, system migration and data protection solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, has announced new virtual server pricing for StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® for Managed Service Providers™. The new pricing

MSPmentor names StorageCraft CEO as MSP leader

MSPmentor just released the MSPmentor 250, the organization’s annual look at the executives, entrepreneurs, experts, coaches and community leaders shaping the global managed services market. We’re excited to announce that our president and CEO, Jeff Shreeve, made the list. Jeff is one of the original five founders of StorageCraft and has been here since the

StorageCraft Releases ShadowProtect for Managed Service Providers – 03/21/2001

New version of award-winning backup software allows MSPs to manage ShadowProtect licenses remotely *** DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – March 21, 2011 – Managing licenses remotely and instantly is now a few mouse clicks away for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) who install and manage ShadowProtect for their customers. StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of innovative backup,