Secrets of a Successful Cloud Backup as a Service Strategy
Backup has always been critical, but it can be so complex that many organizations forgo it or do it poorly. The cloud changes all that, automatically protecting all of your data and holding it...
View ArticleSoftware Management Key to Updating and Securing Your Infrastructure
It’s hardly news that patching is critical to securing your infrastructure, as the majority of successful breaches are against unpatched machines. Ransomware such as Petya is one example of such an...
View ArticleSecurity as a Service: No Longer Just ‘Nice to Have’
When many MSPs think of security, antivirus (AV) and antimalware (AM) springs to mind first. That duo is certainly a key part of any proper cyber-security arsenal. Unfortunately, this style of...
View ArticleIT Operations Survey Shows Mid-Market Enterprises (MME) a Way Forward
Every year Kaseya conducts an IT Operations Benchmark survey to gauge the level of IT maturity and innovation within the SMB community. By seeing where your peers stand, you can better evaluate...
View ArticleKaseya Drives into Public Cloud Monitoring, Management and Control with Unigma
A few months back at Kaseya Connect 2017 in Las Vegas, we announced the acquisition of Unigma, a leading cloud monitoring company. Kaseya has now added public cloud monitoring and management to the...
View ArticleEnterprise Management Associates (EMA) Finds Rich MSP Value in Kaseya Traverse
When noted IT research firm EMA, Enterprise Management Associates, wanted to understand the value of Kaseya Traverse, it went to the best source it could find, a managed service provider (MSP) that...
View ArticleEverything is Critical Infrastructure, Learn How to Profit from It
MSPs are tasked with keeping everything running. They have an around-the-clock, constant flow of information, accessible at any time from anywhere. Each and every single business depends in some way...
View ArticleIT Service Provider Axians Taps Kaseya Traverse to Manage Client Networks
IT service providers have a lot on their plates. Axians, based in the Netherlands, is a case in point. This company manages client IT infrastructure, everything from hardware, software – both custom...
View ArticleX-CIO: Technology Islands — Why You Need to Consolidate to Save Big
As an IT manager, hearing “spend less” over and over again, one of the easiest tasks is to consolidate “technology islands” (i.e., multiple applications) under a single vendor. Does it make it easier...
View ArticleQ&A: VSA Drives MSP Internet & Telephone to New KPI Heights
MSP veteran Paul Cissel, CEO and founder of Internet & Telephone LLC (I&T), runs a tight ship. A big part of that discipline is the use of Kaseya VSA, a next generation RMM that helps the 14...
View ArticleTwo-Factor Authentication: Double your Defense Against Hackers
With the ever aggressive advancement of digital crime from cyber-thieves, and the increase of Internet fraud, companies now fully recognize the importance of high level security. Many businesses know...
View ArticleThe Cloud Is Way More Secure Than You Might Think
Let’s settle this old argument once and for all. With a good provider, and properly set up, the cloud is more secure than most on-premises infrastructure. Does that still sound a wee bit equivocal? It...
View ArticleSecure Your Critical Cloud ERP and CRM Data Straight to the Last Mile
In the early days of the cloud, IT worried about security. After all, if your data isn’t in your own hands, how do you know it’s safe? Fortunately, it is cloud vendors’ business to make their systems...
View ArticleLessons from Yahoo Data Breach Debacle: How to Block Breaches and Minimize...
While Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and disabling malware are IT nightmares, what really keeps IT pros (and the execs they report to) up at night are data breaches. And that means a lot of restless...
View ArticleThe Future of MSPs Lies in Adding Value to Cloud Services
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) spent the last decade or so making a major transformation ― moving from a focus on break/fix to true managed services ― and at the same expanding their list of...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn’t End 2016 Without an IT Audit
The end of the year is filled with lots of last minute work – and plenty of employee time off. Not a good combo. So it’s easy to let things slide. But one item you should not neglect is a year-end IT...
View ArticleProtect Your Clients’ Data―and Your MSP―with Layered Security
As an MSP, you have been long aware that your clients need to increase and standardize their IT security defenses to decrease the risk of cyberattacks and possible regulatory fines. However, did you...
View ArticleSecurity is an MSP’s Job One
Security is by far the toughest challenge faced by end user organizations today — which is why so many small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) choose to outsource their security to managed service...
View Article5 IT Cloud Myths and Beliefs – Debunked, Confirmed and In-Between
The cloud is still full of mystery. After all, you can’t see and touch your applications and data, and you have less control than with their on-premises counter parts. Now that the cloud is maturing,...
View ArticleHow an IT Inventory Exposes Unprotected Systems, Shows What is Out of Date,...
We old timers remember the emergence of the PC as an IT force. In mainframe dominated organizations, PCs were snuck in, put surreptitiously to work, and then proved themselves more than worthy. Today,...
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