Free White Papers from our Sponsors

• Protecting Windows Microsoft Exchange Server

  Growth in data for Microsoft Exchange is expanding at a rapid growth rate. Mailbox sizes are increasing due to multimedia file, documentation collaboration and database growth. With this growth, mobility and virtualization of applications and data is increasing as well. Learn how to keep your Exchange Servers protected. Read on.

• StorageCraft Recover-Ability Solution

  If you’re offering (or planning to offer) your clients disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) you need to think about more than just backup. You need to find a solution that will actually recover systems and data when the inevitable disaster strikes. In this paper authored by Storage Strategies NOW, analysts explain why you need more than data protection in your disaster recovery offering and how the StorageCraft Recover-Ability solution can help. Read now!

• Reduce Complexity Managing Lync and Hybrid UC Environments

  Microsoft Lync connects people everywhere as part of their everyday productivity experience. When issues in the underlying IP network affect a user’s Lync experience, unified communications (UC) managers need to solve those problems immediately. Learn more.

• Manage Your Virtual Ecosystem

  Gain insight on how to provide companies with the tools and performance they need to get to the next level of growth.

• Don’t Let Automation Pass You By

  If you’re an MSP and you haven’t looked into automation software as a new avenue for driving revenue and cutting costs, you should. Find out more in this white paper from a noted industry expert. Learn more.

• 5 Reasons Not to Build Your Own: A Better BDR Revenue Model

  This white paper outlines the reasons why an MSP will benefit from partnering with the right BDR vendor vs. attempting to build their own. Learn more and read on.

• Demystify tempdb Performance and Manageability

  Partners need the latest technical knowledge as much as their customers need it and perhaps more so. In this white paper, partners can catch up on managing tempdb to provide maximum performance and reliability.

• Using Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) for Break-Fix Customers

  MSPs generate a large chunk of revenue from break-fix customers. But break-fix clients can be a fickle source of sales. Is there a way to turn them into a more reliable revenue source? There is in this white paper.

• Avoiding Disaster Recovery Epic Fails

  Most disaster recovery articles focus on convincing readers that the risk of a business altering disaster is real, and as such, they should buy a set of products to mitigate that risk. This isn’t that article. Instead explore various causes of DR epic fails. Read on.

• Vendor Management Reduce Complexity for Your Clients

  In just about any infrastructure, software tends to build up a bit, as do the vendors who provide it. IT service providers can help their clients with this problem by offering vendor management. Read more

• 7 Steps to Next-Gen IT Managed Services

  As the market for managed services grows, customers expect MSPs to offer increasingly more numerous and complex services. Find out in this white paper how to stay ahead of the services curve.

• Create a Referral Program to Grow Your IT Business

  Referral leads are great, but many companies just aren’t quite sure how to get them or what to do with them. The answer is to start a referral program. Find out how to do that in this white paper.

• Avoiding Common Pitfalls of Evaluating and Implementing DCIM Solutions

  While many who invest in Data Center Infrastructure Management(DCIM) software benefit greatly, some do not. Research has revealed a number of pitfalls that end users should avoid when evaluating and implementing DCIM solutions. This white paper describes these common pitfalls and provides practical guidance on how to avoid them. Learn more.

• Managing Mobile Devices: The New MSP Opportunity

  Managing mobile devices might be a problem for IT professionals, but that just makes it an opportunity for MSPs. Find out in this white paper how MSPs can profit from helping customers go mobile.

• 6 Criteria for Small Business Data Protection: Datto Redefines BDR for Small Business

  This white paper reviews both the unique pain points faced by small businesses in regards to data protection, as well as the solution provided by Datto ALTO, the first BDR solution designed specifically for small business with the power of an enterprise BDR. Learn more.

• 6 Keys to Expand Your Revenue Opportunities: BDR Designed for SMBs

  This paper outlines how Datto ALTO can expand an MSPs customer base and revenue growth with a BDR that addresses the unique needs of small business, from features to price. Read this paper to learn the 6 keys to expand your business with untapped small business market. Learn more.

• Accelerating a Profitable Microsoft Cloud Business

  Solution providers today must grapple with both growing their businesses and transitioning customers to the new world of the cloud. Vendor partnerships must enhance this transition and serve as a platform to drive new levels of profitability and provide competitive advantages. Learn more.

• Disaster Recovery Best Practices

  While you might think just because you have a disaster recovery plan in place that your company is fully protected should disaster strike. The reality is, in most cases the amount of data being protected has grown exponentially, leaving the original plan outdated. In this Solution Brief you’ll learn how to put together a sound disaster recovery strategy that will grow with your data.

• Protecting Windows Microsoft Exchange Server

  Growth in data for Microsoft exchange is expanding at a rapid Growth rate. Mailbox sizes are increasing due to multimedia file, documentation collaboration and database Growth. With this growth, mobility and virtualization of applications and data is increasing as well. Read on.

• What Most Backup Vendors Don’t Want You To Know

  There are always a few “secrets” in any industry – and the backup and restore business has its share. Our secrets are widely known within the industry but are less well-known outside of it – for the obvious reason that none of these secrets helps the majority of the vendors in this space. In this white paper, we will reveal these secrets to you.

• 5 Things Every MSP Needs to Know about Mobile as a Managed Service

  How are your clients going to COPE with BYOD? If you don’t know, you need to read this white paper. And if you don’t know what COPE or BYOD means, you really need to read this white paper.

• Best Practices For Disaster Recovery Scenarios

  What happens when backup alone isn't enough? This Disaster Recovery Best Practices brief will describe how to leverage data protection and best practices for disaster recovery scenarios. After reading this brief, you will understand how to protect businesses' most critical data where backups alone simply will not meet the recovery need.

• BlueWave Computing Realizes Million-Dollar Productivity Gains

  How did BlueWave Computing, an Atlanta-based, MSP save $1million in engineering time and costs in 2012? Find out in this informative case study.

• Business Health, Patient Health: Five Prescriptions to Stop Healthcare Disasters

  In this new ebook “Business Health, Patient Health: Five Prescriptions to Stop Healthcare Disasters,” four managed service providers who specialize in the healthcare industry offer their recommendations for how to provide successful disaster recovery to doctors’ offices, clinics, hospitals, and more. Learn more.

• Better Data Recovery Yields Happy Clients

  Stephill Associates, a valued Datto Partner, compares their experience using Axcient’s BDR solution and Datto SIRIS. Datto has made life much easier both for Stephill and their clients. Read on.

• Sandy Put Disaster Recovery to the Ultimate Test

  Sandy put Datto’s backup and disaster recovery solutions and people to the test. This white paper details how Datto more than passed the test of Sandy. Read on.

• 4 Criteria of Intelligent Business Continuity; Beyond Backup and Disaster Recovery

  Just because you have a backup plan, it doesn’t mean your data is safe; let alone easily accessible in case of a technical or natural disaster. The risks of protecting data have become more complex as the technology and market for services has changed. Download this white paper and learn how Datto can help you.

• Eliminate the Risks in Data Protection

  Just because you have a backup plan, it doesn’t mean your data is safe; let alone easily accessible in case of a technical or natural disaster. The risks of protecting data have become more complex as the technology and market for services has changed. Learn more.

• Effectively Selling Business Continuity

  In this white paper Datto presents six key takeaways to help MSPs; including, sell the value of business continuity (vs. traditional backup), maximize revenue from improved service, manage TCO to yield additional profit, it’s not beneficial to build your own device, and the benefits of partnering with an award-winning business continuity vendor who is 100% channel-focused. Learn more.

• 7 Essential Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Backup

  In this white paper, you'll learn what exactly the hybrid cloud platform is, how hybrid cloud backup compares to other backup solutions, and seven essential benefits the hybrid cloud backup platform utilizes to accelerate your business. Learn more.

• Things Partners Should Know About Windows Server 2012

  With an all-new model of computing, the next version of the Microsoft flagship server OS comes with new editions, licensing, product dependencies, features and partner opportunities. Redmond Channel Partner provides the top things partner should know now.

• Selling Managed Services to your Clients

  In this white paper learn how a break/fix IT service model is both unpredictable and unsustainable for both service providers and their clients. Learn more.