Welcome to the third and final blog in our series on how Quest® QoreStor® data protection benefits MSPs.

As we discussed in posts One  and Two, QoreStor helps MSPs boost margins, expand their services and increase customer diversity, but there is also a strategic…

In part one of the Quest® QoreStor® data protection MSP blog series, we discussed storing your customers’ growing data profitably. In part two, we’ll cover how you can create new services from long-term storage.

Data retention for…

Ransomware attacks are growing and are becoming more prevalent every year. Per the Washington Post, Ransomware payments spiked a whopping 70% last year alone, and the victims paid more than $600 million in 2021. 

“This $600 million, while extremely large…

As a member of a data protection, disaster recovery or storage management team in an enterprise IT organization, you already know how exponential data growth makes your job more difficult.

Even with data deduplication solutions to help reduce storage…

 When you’re looking for a definition of data democratization, you find a few common threads:

• making digital information accessible to the average user
• giving people the tools to understand data and make quick decisions
• opening up information systems…

As a managed service provider, are you ready to take advantage of the growing demand for data protection services? The market for data protection as a service (DPaaS) is expected to grow at a 31.3 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to $104 billion…

It’s gotten a lot more difficult to be a managed service provider (MSP), especially in 2020. Customer demands are at an all-time high for what they perceive as commodity services because of fierce competition. And margins are slim with a pricing race…

According to a recent Red Hat survey of 950 IT leaders, 95% of the respondents stated that open source solutions are important to them. So, it’s no surprise that many organizations have adopted Red Hat Virtualization (RHV, also known as Red Hat Enterprise…

“Well,” says your boss during your weekly Teams call, “I guess data privacy and data protection really need to be a priority for us now.” She shares her screen and shows you an article announcing that enforcement of the California…

As a member of a data protection, disaster recovery or storage management team in an enterprise IT organization, you already know how exponential data growth makes your job more difficult.

Even with data deduplication solutions to help reduce storage…

The risk

Ransomware attacks represent a significant danger to all organizations. Forrester Research reported that the number of ransomware attacks on enterprises is up 500% over the previous year and will cost businesses $11.5 billion. To reduce the risk…

Your bank and your cloud storage provider have a similar business model: They’re both happy to hold onto your assets. But the more often you access those assets, the more they charge you.

You can put money into a checking account, although you’ll…

“Working on our long-term storage strategy is the best part of my job.”

“Our cloud-connected storage costs next to nothing and I never have to think about it.”

“Our tape library is my best friend.”

Said no IT administrator…

Are you relying on Microsoft services and infrastructure to protect your Microsoft 365 data? Unfortunately, native Microsoft 365 data protection falls short of the backup and restore functionality most organizations need. Businesses today need a solution…

Feel like you’re performing a high-wire balancing act in your role as IT manager? Performance monitoring and capacity planning can be a real challenge regardless of your infrastructure design. You’ve got to decide what compute and storage resources are…

If you’re lucky enough to work for a growing business, then you likely know that the role of IT is also growing — and changing — quickly. Part of your job is to understand the evolving business needs and make the most of the available resources without…

“Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously. But I don’t think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.” — J. J. Abrams

Isn’t it reassuring that a guy with that…

“I thought cloud migration was going to be easy,” you say. “The development and QA teams used to just create an account with a cloud provider like AWS or Azure, whip out a credit card and bang! they were in the cloud. What’s taking so long for us to get…

Want to be the public-cloud hero of data protection in your organization?

You can, you know.

I know, because I’ve done it. I’m the public-cloud hero of data protection in our organization.

That’s me in the photo. Of course, I didn’t always…

We all remember Abbott and Costello’s skit “Who’s On First?”. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend you pop over to YouTube and give it a watch. It has become one of the legendary classic comedies of all times, with Costello not knowing baseball…

With exponential data growth, you’re probably dealing with slower backups and out of control storage costs. Everyone’s going through this, regardless of the data protection solutions they are using.

If you happen to be using Veeam Backup…

How has the cloud transformed your IT organization over the past decade? Most businesses today make use of the cloud in some way, whether it’s for data storage, for running software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, or as an integral part of the organization…

The way we do business has certainly changed over the past 10 or 20 years. We can work from anywhere and access applications and data housed in the cloud. Many organizations also still maintain physical servers for managing some aspects of their business…

With exponential data growth across most organizations in all sectors, backup and recovery processes have become cumbersome and time-consuming — not to mention the drain on performance. Maybe you’ve already seen the stats put out in Domo’s recent …

Think your Office 365 Exchange Online data is automatically archived and protected? Think again. While Microsoft may host the infrastructure to support more than 135 million active Office 365 users, the company’s services don’t include comprehensive,…