Ransomware is one of the most dangerous and disruptive types of cyber threats we face today. Not only is it disruptive and costly for businesses, but it also causes massive disruption to the backbone of society. Here’s what happens and how to prevent ransomware in Microsoft 365 cloud.
Introducing MSP360 Connect (Formerly Remote Desktop) 2.0
A year and a half after the initial release, MSP360 Connect receives its first major update. In release 2.0, we're bringing you the highly-anticipated direct connection option as well as several other features and improvements.
MSP Voice Episode 27 – “Learn More With MSP” with John Watkins
John Watkins, who is an engineer by heart, started right out of high school in IT and later teamed up with a local break-fix shop that had multiple locations in the Tampa Bay area. After about 3 years they transition to full MSP and have been growing steadily ever since. As John says, “You’ll never learn more than working for an MSP”. Continue reading
AWS Re:Invent 2018 Recap. All About S3
During re:Invent 2018, Amazon Web Services has announced a number of features and updates for its services. In this article, we have collected and overviewed features, related to Amazon S3 storage and it’s classes. Continue reading
How to Resize an Amazon Elastic Block Store Volume
Reaching a capacity limit in Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)? Need more IOPS for an app or web-service? Due to its design, Amazon EBS doesn’t allow to scale the volume size dynamically or extend volume IOPS. If a user needs more space, he has to buy another Amazon EBS volume and then spend hours to backup data from the original volume, verify its consistency and then restore on the new one.
This article is a step-by-step guide on how to use AWS built-in features to easily resize the Amazon EBS volume.
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MSP Voice Episode 26 – “Hospitality as a Vertical” with Krunal Patel
Krunal is in the UK and he and his company support the hospitality industry (hotels, coffee shops, etc). They’ve been in business since 2009 after Krunal saw some opportunities to consolidate IT services for hotels and retail outlets and provide a one stop shop. Since many hotels are owned by a franchisee Krunal and his team have carved out a great niche for their company.
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Introducing Updates to CloudBerry Explorer
CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 Microsoft, Azure, Google Cloud, and OpenStack have each received a minor update, focusing on performance improvements and bug fixes.
Introducing MSP360 Backup 5.9.4
MSP360 Backup 5.9.4 adds important new features, including: support for Microsoft Azure lifecycle policy, enhanced Hybrid Backup functionality, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
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MSP360 Backup: 1-Click Upgrade
MSP360 Backup 5.9.4 simplifies Windows installations with the new 1-Click Upgrade feature.
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MSP360 Backup: Enhanced Hybrid Backup
MSP360 Backup 5.9.4 features enhanced Hybrid Backup functionality.
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Lifecycle Management
One of the highly anticipated features in MSP360 Backup 5.9.4 is support for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management. At the time of this post, Microsoft is making this feature available as a public preview. Lifecycle policies allow you to automatically transition blobs to a cooler storage tier (Hot to Cool, Hot to Archive, or Cool to Archive) to optimize medium and long-term storage costs.
MSP Voice Episode 25 - "Technology Success"
Doug is the founder and CEO of Brightworks Group. Brightworks has been in business for 7 years and they consider themselves at technology success providers. While similar to an MSP, Brightworks Group works with a unique set of customers focused in the high end financial and private equity services. Continue reading