Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting a webinar with eFolder partner Erik Thorsell. Erik is the President of Success Computer Consulting in the Twin Cities. Erik has been an eFolder partner since 2006. Erik is a smart businessman and a true expert on how to grow and thrive as a managed service . . . → Continue reading Three Secrets to Pricing and Packaging Your BDR Offering
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MSPs face a continual series of make or buy decisions. One decision before most growing MSPs is how to deliver disaster recovery in the cloud. Server image backup is a must-have offering for clients. Fast, on-site recovery takes things to the next level; most partners are able to commit to fast server recovery by deploying a BDR appliance to the client’s location. This BDR appliance serves as a local storage point for the server images and steps in as a standby server in the case of an outage of some kind. Virtualization technology enables the fast recovery of the servers on the BDR appliance. But what happens if the client location is totally wiped out in a natural disaster or fire? . . . → Continue reading Three Myths of Cloud Recovery Revealed Last week, I hosted a webinar with Lloyd Wolf, President and CEO of Wolf Consulting. Lloyd is an expert on the backup and disaster recovery (BDR) market. Lloyd recently completed a thorough review of the BDR vendor landscape and an overhaul of his own retail service offering. Lloyd knows how to drive recurring revenue with BDR services, while keeping his recurring costs low. Here are Lloyd’s tips: . . . → Continue reading Five Ways to Reduce Your BDR Support Costs For partners that are attending HTG, ConnectWise IT Nation, or any of the other shows this week, don’t miss the eFolder Show Special. eFolder is taking our BDR Rescue Program and adding a special sweetener. Sign up with eFolder and your first BDR appliance under the BDR Rescue Program is free for life (limit . . . → Continue reading eFolder Orlando Show Special eFolder and AppAssure have formed a strategic partnership. What does this mean for partners? Lots! Already eFolder has delivered to the channel a rock solid BDR that provides on-site bare-metal backup and recovery, near-instant on-site virtualization, NAS services, email archiving, BDR-to-BDR replication, and offsite backup and recovery, powered by Windows Storage Server 2008, StorageCraft ShadowProtect, . . . → Continue reading Three Things We Love About AppAssure We’re on ConnectWise TV! And we’re bringing one of our friends and partners, Mark Richmond of Micro Doctor. In this episode we’ll dive deep in to the ramifications of cloud storage for MSPs, business models and opportunities, and principles for profitability. Mark will keep the discussion grounded in reality by sharing experiences and best . . . → Continue reading Join the conversation with eFolder and Micro Doctor on ConnectWise TV CRN regularly analyzes the market and publishes top vendor lists for particular categories. We’re pleased to announce that eFolder has been named as one of the top 20 cloud storage vendors of 2011, no joke! Check out the slide show. We made the list last year as well. For the light-hearted, we recommend reading . . . → Continue reading eFolder named one of top 20 cloud storage vendors of 2011 This is a post in an ongoing series going in-depth into the DoubleCheck Email Manager product. Don’t miss the first part of this series, summarizing the enhancements we’ve made to DoubleCheck in 2010. Identifying spam and unwanted bulk email is inherently an imprecise art. One person’s spam is another person’s treasure. How to tailor the filtering to the individual whims of each end-user? This is where our adaptive, hierarchical, statistical spam classification technology comes into play to help address this challenge. Our partner web portal has evolved quite a bit since its initial launch in 2005. Originally, it was focused on helping partners manage their online backup accounts for their customers. Over the years, we’ve added local backup, email archiving, and recently BDR hardware monitoring and configuration. There’s a lot more information for each account than there used to be. There’s also quite a few new account actions and reports as well. While the interface is highly functional and streamlined for the common tasks, it also screams information overload. And let’s just say it wasn’t going to win awards for its aesthetic appeal anytime soon. Our web portal has long been overdue for a comprehensive overhaul. It’s been a long time in coming, but we feel you will not be disappointed! Continue reading In late 2009, eFolder quietly acquired the DoubleCheck Email Manager product, which is an email filtering and management service, hosted in the eFolder cloud, a partner’s own private cloud, or on an on-site hardware or virtual appliance. We’ve been keeping DoubleCheck under wraps since then on purpose, quietly enhancing every part of the product. This post lifts the covers on what happened to DoubleCheck in 2010. More later on what exciting things we have planned for 2011. Continue reading |
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