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QuorumLabs has announced a new release of their onQ Business Continuity Appliance, giving MSPs with SMB customers one-click server recovery when disaster strikes, the company claims. Here’s the lowdown.

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Disaster recovery solution specialist Continuity Software has launched RecoverGuard 5.2, the new version of their flagship product. New to this release is a Private Cloud Advisor targeted at helping customers ensure availability and compliance with best practices in the private cloud. Here’s the scoop.

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Artisan Infrastructure, which provides “wholesale” infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) to MSPs, has separately announced the launch of a disaster recovery (DR) template for their customers and the quadrupling of their storage cloud scalability to near-petabyte size to make use of it. Here’s the scoop.

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When it comes to the managed services, Dell partners have been mostly quiet in recent months. But listen closely and you’ll hear some managed services and cloud chatter from Bluehawk Networks, a Dell partner that’s making acquisitions to expand its SMB and Fortune 1000 customer reach. Here are the details.

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CharTec specializes in hardware-as-a-service — so it’s no surprise that when they decided to build their own cloud-enabled enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery (BDR) appliance, they decided to offer it under a monthly subscription model with no money down. CharTec says it’s designed to make BDR more appealing to the midmarket, where this kind of solution can be expensive and complex to deploy. Here’s the skinny.

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Another dispatch from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC10): Microsoft is striving to help transform hosting providers and telecommunications providers into full-on IT service providers. The secret sauce, predictably, involves the cloud. But what are the implications for smaller MSPs and VARs? Here’s some perspective.

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Forget Web 2.0 and anything else 2.0. Zmanda, the open source backup specialist, is pitching Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB) 3.0. Zmanda certainly has plenty of competition when it comes to online backup. But the company says ZCB 3.0 includes enhanced geography control across datacenters on three continents, optimized Microsoft Exchange data backup, bandwidth management, and cloud-based disaster recovery. And it drops the overall price, too. Here’s the scoop.

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Perhaps former Symantec CEO John Thompson was right: When Symantec acquired Veritas in 2005, Thompson told Wall Street that the worlds of storage and security were converging, creating an information protection industry. Of course, Symantec hit plenty of bumps integrating Symantec and Veritas. But Thompson’s initial vision seems correct. One prime example: Fast forward to the present, and Symantec rival Trend Micro is buying humyo, a consumer cloud storage service in the U.K. Here’s why.

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Is CA Technologies (formerly CA Inc.) serious about the managed services market? I found my answer at the Ingram Micro Cloud Summit in Dallas, where I began to experience double-vision. In one room, CA Technologies was talking up its strategy to managed services providers. In another room, CA’s recently acquired Nimsoft team was busy describing its role in the MSP sector. But can CA really become a mainstream player in the MSP space? Here are some thoughts.

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As you begin to evaluate white label SaaS solutions for your customers, VARs and MSPs must also develop a SaaS sales pitch to help articulate your value proposition. To get started, listen and submit your questions during The VAR Guy Live’s webcast at 2:00 p.m. eastern today (Wednesday, June 9). The topic for today’s webcast: How to Sell Initial SaaS Solutions. Here are some more details.

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As you begin to evaluate white label SaaS solutions for your customers, VARs and MSPs must also develop a SaaS sales pitch to help articulate your value proposition. To get started, listen and submit your questions during The VAR Guy Live’s Wednesday, June 9 webcast. The topic for this week’s webcast: How to Sell Initial SaaS Solutions. Here are some more details.

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In India, IBM has teamed up for the next 10 years with ElectraCard Services (ECS) to provide the backbone for ECS’s disaster recovery infrastructure. Here’s the quick rundown about the agreement.

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Most companies understand that providing an outstanding customer experience builds customer loyalty and ultimately grows business. Some of the aspects that are part of building the customer experience include product design, technical support, and marketing. But your efforts shouldn’t stop there.

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They’re not in direct competition — yet — but Google is no longer the only A-list cloud services provider with disaster recovery and failover. To wit, Amazon Web Services has launched Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) deployments for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), giving users redundant cloud backups. Here’s the scoop.

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InMage, which specializes in disk-based disaster recovery solutions, has sharpened the company’s cloud computing focus. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has launched a so-called “cloud-optimized infrastructure” for customers and partners. Here’s how InMage is positioning the offering.

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The Launch Pad, a Florida-based MSP catering to SMBs, has unveiled fixed-fee managed services targeted at nonprofit organizations. The RevITUP Business Care Nonprofit Managed IT Services Series, as The Launch Pad calls it, combines remote monitoring and management, help desk and ticketing functions, backup and disaster recovery, and Internet security. Here’s a look at the effort.

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Some Friday morning SaaS chatter: Cloud services provider Jamcracker has apparently entered into a partnership with online backup software vendor BackupAgent. Under the deal, according to their press release, Jamcracker will make BackupAgent’s eponymous backup-on-demand solution available for resale through their cloud. Here’s the deal.

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Comcast is the latest telecommunications supergiant to enter the cloud backup game, as the company now offers all of their millions of ISP customers up to 2GB of free storage. It’s not the world’s most robust solution, apparently, but MSPs who cater to small businesses should take note. Here’s why.

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Datacastle and FiberCloud are partnering to promote cloud backup, recovery and data protection offerings. The move leverage’s Datacastle’s RED business resiliency solution and FiberCloud’s data center services. Here are more details.

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In a blog post, Google has announced that Google Apps — the software-as-a-service collaborative productivity suite — is now fully disaster-proof and ready to instantly restore data lost in the event of a catastrophe. Here’s why their braggadocio has some IT pros seeing red.

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LegalCloud isn’t your typical managed services provider. The Sausalito, Calif.-based company is targeting the legal vertical with a range of cloud, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), backup and disaster recovery services. I met CEO Mark Hadfield on January 15, and he shared portions of LegalCloud’s business plan with me. Here’s a look at his strategy.

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MaxSP, which appears to be a business continuity expert of sorts, says it has bolstered its Data Protection Suite with storage management software from Acronis.

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Talk about timely, on-point messaging. MasterIT, one of our MSPmentor 100 companies, is hosting a “non-technical” symposium October 30 at the FedEx Institute of Technology in Memphis, Tenn.

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