Tips

Tips

• Integrated IT stacks: What they mean for VARs

  VARs competing against integrated IT stacks may find the best advantages in the areas of configuration choice, existing equipment and vendor lock-in.  Continue Reading

• Cloud storage solutions: Look to straight services as well as gateways, appliances

  In this tip, find out how VARs can look not only to cloud storage providers, but also to other solutions such as cloud gateways and hybrid appliances.  Continue Reading

• How to get in the backup and disaster recovery service game

  Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) services can be a great addition to a managed service provider’s portfolio, but it requires a deep level of trust from your customers. Learn about the risks and rewards of this solution for MSPs.  Continue Reading

• Seeking out Windows Azure and PaaS service opportunities

  Solution providers who previously thought of PaaS and Windows Azure as menacing to their business can now take advantage of the business opportunities they provide such as Azure hosted backup service.  Continue Reading

• Book chapter: IT security risk assessment and program management

  Read this excerpt from the book Security Risk Management by Evan Wheeler to learn how to build a solid risk management program for your clients.  Continue Reading

• Create a BlackBerry security policy based on BES or BES Express

  Mobile security expert Lisa Phifer outlines the many ways security solution providers can secure their customers’ BlackBerry devices.  Continue Reading

• Selling your customers on a private cloud computing environment

  The challenges of public clouds and the appeal of business continuity during Internet outages make the idea of private cloud computing compelling to your customers eyeing the cloud.  Continue Reading

• Tackle your client's security issues with cloud computing in 10 steps

  So your client wants to move to the cloud? Your job just got harder. Kevin McDonald lists 10 steps to protect your client (and yourself).  Continue Reading

• For disaster readiness, DR monitoring and backup reporting tools give customers confidence

  With customers poised to spend more money on disaster readiness this year, learn how DR monitoring and backup reporting tools can augment their disaster recovery plans.  Continue Reading

• Practicing defense-in-depth: Implementing a defense-in-depth strategy

  Implementing a defense-in-depth strategy can protect your customers’ Web applications from attack. Take a layered approach with intrusion prevention, encryption and code review.  Continue Reading

• Why Windows Intune could be what your SMB customers need

  Because SMB customers may not have the time to handle desktop support tasks, Windows Intune offers a solution for VAR customers, but it does have a downside as well.  Continue Reading

• True-CDP solutions: Use cases and recovery process

  Learn how continuous data protection (CDP) solutions can address customers’ backup window problems and read about true-CDP use cases and the recovery process with true CDP.  Continue Reading

• Establishing yourself as a trusted channel advisor

  Becoming a trusted channel advisor requires VARs to take a long-term approach and show customers that they can be direct about sales without being overaggressive.  Continue Reading

• Helping customers comply with data privacy laws by state

  Data privacy laws vary by state, yet your client must follow the law of every state in which they have a customer or employee. Richard Mackey explains how to cope with it all.  Continue Reading

• Picking the best vSphere backup options for your customer

  Virtual and physical server backup are different, and solution providers need to know the vSphere backup options at the virtualization layer, including image-level backup or backup applications.  Continue Reading