Dan Kobialka
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Boston, MA, United States
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Whatâs Different about MAX Backup and Your Approach to the Challenge
In this FastChat, Penton Contributing Editor Ryan Morris and LOGICnowâs Chris Groot discuss the many different ways to backup customers data, and how MAX Backup allows for further efficiency and added simplicity. → Read More
Don’t Let Bad Weather Create the Perfect Storm for Your Business
When Hurricane Hermine threatened the southeastern United States, AppRiver once again activated its free Digital Disaster Preparedness Service (DDPS). → Read More
If I Were Launching an MSP Now
Eduardo Don, the President and CEO of Orange County, Calif.-based Lumen21, shares three suggestions he'd apply if he were starting an MSP from scratch today. → Read More
Why Offsite Backups Are Critical
We’ve come a long way since the days of tape backup. Today, backing up to an offsite location is as simple as having an Internet connection, yet too many businesses still don’t use offsite data replication. → Read More
Ransomware Prevention Tips for MSPs
In 2016, ransomware is having the best year ever. The attacks are successful and happening more often than ever before. In Q1 alone, ransomware delivered a cool $200M+ to the cyber bullies behind it. → Read More
MSP Delivers Value and Sees Better Margins with Webroot
After hearing about Webroot and getting a product demo, SWAT CTO David Blake was impressed. → Read More
Disruptor or Disrupted? Accelerating Your Business Innovation
While software may be “eating the world” as Marc Andreessen famously put it, what’s ultimately resulted is an application economy, an environment defined by disruption and innovation. In every industry, it is application innovators that are doing the eating, feasting on the market share previously held by market incumbents. → Read More
When It Comes to Backup, Are You Fast?
The old adage that time is money is absolutely true. Whether the costs are additional employee wages, the opportunity cost of missing sales or the cost of acquiring faster equipment, time is one of the levers in any business that is ultimately under the control of the business owner. → Read More
What MSPs Can Learn from the Q2 Global Security Report
While many businesses may think that cybercriminals only target “the big guys,” the reality is that cast-net style approaches take much less effort and can be as profitable as a big data breach. → Read More
Data Centers' Water Use Has Investors on High Alert
High demand for water has some investors concerned, especially in places where the resource is becoming ever more precious, like tech-heavy California. → Read More
Explosive DRaaS Growth a Boon to MSPs
Disaster recovery is one of the primary goals of data backup. Yet, too little thought goes into the recovery planning piece. → Read More
It’s a Multi-Cloud World We’re Living In
Industry experts and pundits have asserted for some time that multi-cloud is the future of cloud computing for enterprises, and I’d be inclined to agree with them. → Read More
Salesforce Buys Word-Processing App Quip for $582
Salesforce.com Inc. said it agreed to buy startup Quip Inc., which provides word-processing tools, for about $582 million in stock, expanding its lineup of products to reach deeper into customer budgets. → Read More
Five Factors to Consider in Managed Services Partnerships
MSPs need partnerships to deliver their services. Partners help your business round out offerings with services such as security, CRM, and data backup and recovery. But, whenever selecting a partner--be it a cloud services provider, large technology vendor or another MSP--you’ll want to conduct due diligence to avoid any potential conflicts. → Read More
Guest Blog: Keeping Your Software Defined Data Center in Full Compliance
It’s more important in the SDDC than it is in a traditional data center to ensure compliance during the development phase, instead of using the bolt-on approach. → Read More
Guest Blog: SDDC 101: What is the Orchestration Management Layer, Anyway?
The goal of this policy-driven orchestration layer is to meet service requirements of whatever workloads are required at any time. → Read More
If I Were Launching an MSP Now
Tommy Wald sold his Austin, Texas-based managed services provider (MSP), Riata Technology, after more than two decades in business. Now a private consultant to MSPs, Wald shares three suggestions he'd apply if starting an MSP from scratch right now. → Read More
6 Revenue Metrics to Watch in Recurring Revenue Businesses
Examining these metrics across different periods of time and different product lines can help identify where the company is doing well, and where it needs improvement. → Read More
The MSP's Guide To Closing SaaS Deals
So, you’re looking to start or improve your efforts in selling SaaS solutions? The first thing to understand is that selling SaaS isn’t intrinsically different from selling anything else. All the old sales rules still apply broadly to SaaS; it’s merely a matter of tweaking the finer details of your techniques to give yourself the best chance of closing more cloud deals. → Read More
TLS or SSL Encryption? What the Answer Means for Your Clients
Given that so much of your clients’ data today is transmitted on the cloud, including their most sensitive and regulated data, the security protocols that those cloud services employ are critical to the integrity of your clients’ businesses--and can even play a role in keeping them on the right side of costly regulations. → Read More