Intronis Cloud Backup + Recovery Blog

In a few recent blog posts we dived into the futuristic, imaginative, at times far-out world of the Internet of Things, where pretty much anything and everything you can think of is connected to the Web (bathrooms, cat feeders, milk cartons, maybe). One popular example is the driverless cars concept, which involves self-driving vehicles that navigate via global positioning systems and inter-car communication.

By Rob Merklinger, Vice President of Sales

Three years ago only 2 percent of cloud sales went through the channel, according to Gartner’s research. But, today, that percentage is more than 20 percent, and it’s growing. The cloud is not a technology for MSPs to fear, but to embrace.

The reality is: Your customers are eventually going to move to the cloud — with or without you. By playing an active role in that process, you can not only maintain and develop your status as a trusted business advisor, but you can add significant value to your clients and actually expand your services. Here a couple examples:

When a business suffers an IT interruption – let’s say, a compromised sever - its managed services provider needs to rely on backup and recovery tools to restore data access and IT services as quickly as possible. The longer the client has to wait to regain that access, the more productivity suffers, and the more frustrated that business becomes with its MSP. 

By Ben Woodford, Regional Sales Director (Chicago) and Scott Bennett, Regional Sales Director (Toronto)

Regional partner events like the ConnectWise User Group meetings, which are being held May 21^st in Chicago and May 30 in Toronto, offer one thing big shows often lack: one-on-one time with your vendor partners where you can get your business and technology questions answered in person. 

Even though it’s great to attend large trade shows where you can see 100+ vendors in one location and be inundated with product updates and industry trends, the much more focused and personal nature of these smaller events makes them invaluable.

By Scott Bennett, Regional Sales Director

We’re counting down the final weeks and days before the latest version of the Intronis Cloud Backup and Recovery solution is finally launched. With the Spring Release ’13, we’re building off the upgrades we made last fall and adding new features and experiences. 

QuickSpin: Recover virtual machines onsite within minutes with this disaster recovery tool for VMware

I spent most of last weekend agonizing over finding the perfect gift for my mom for Mother’s Day. I go through this routine just about every holiday, partly because I want to get a gift that really shows her my appreciation.

There are a few self-imposed rules in the gift-buying process – I want it to be something thoughtful and practical. That normally rules out gift cards (too impersonal) and random knick-knacks (the ultimate dust collectors).

My gift also has to be something my mom doesn’t already have, which means no gardening tools, no fancy hair care products, and for the love of all that is good, no scarves. I once gave her a scarf for Mother’s Day, an obvious mistake since she only has about 1,000 of them. That fiasco resulted in the dreaded “Did you save the receipt?” question.

For the past few years, a major motivator behind business adoption of cloud services has been its ability to reduce IT maintenance and upkeep costs.  However, one recent study says businesses today have more sophisticated reasons to adopt solutions like cloud backup, and the initial challenges of implementing these services are sometimes offsetting the popular cost benefit. 

By Nathan Bradbury, Senior Solutions Engineer

May has arrived, which means we’re only a few weeks away from the full deployment of the latest version of the Intronis Cloud Backup and Recovery solution. The Spring Release ’13 includes new features, upgrades, and experiences, all of which are designed to enhance the functionality and effectiveness of our solution.

QuickSpin: Restore data from virtual machines within minutes with this new disaster recovery tool.

Automation takes repetitive responsibilities out of your hands so you can focus on the daily tasks that are most important to you. With Intronis Cloud Backup and Recovery, we’ve built in a number of automated notifications that are meant to free you from the rigors of data backup micromanagement and offer you the time to focus on the tasks that make your managed services business run successfully. 

A few weeks ago we talked about Google’s driverless cars initiative and its place in a larger narrative surrounding connected devices and intelligent IT. The concept involves connecting more objects to the internet – often items that are completely non-intuitive. It’s called the “Internet of Things,” and as we talked about in the aforementioned post, it presents a whole slew of implications for data backup and protection.