Managed ServicesMarketing 2.0

Why brand your managed backup service?

Have you thought about your brand lately? Have you asked yourself the simple question “What’s the first thing that comes to my customers’ minds when they think of us?”  If you haven’t, now’s the time to start. Here’s why:
The Managed Backup Services market is heating up
Forrester’s Henry Dewing reported in mid-2009 that 49% of North [...]

Managed Services

MSP Interview: Backup My Info!

We just did a Twitter interview with Jennifer Walzer, the CEO of Backup My Info!, Inc. this morning. She had some really good insight that we wanted to share with all of you. Here’s the full interview.
asigra @BackupMyInfo Good morning Jennifer. I will start tweeting you questions for our #interview and will later post this on [...]

Cloud Backup

IDC’s Top 5 Cloud Applications for 2010

While the “cloud” term has been used and abused by everyone under the sun, there are in fact true cloud applications that deliver value to customers looking for data mobility and shared hardware/software costs, particular for data or content-heavy applications.
IDC recently released a report* outlining the top 5 cloud applications organizations are looking to pursue [...]

FeaturedManaged Services

How to choose a cloud backup delivery platform: A guide for MSPs.

For over 20 years, we’ve helped Managed Service Providers make well informed decisions in regards to their foray into cloud backup and recovery. We recently decided to put all that experience into a concise 6 page guide with the idea of helping MSPs in their decision making process.

We hope this document serves as a useful [...]

Managed Services

Top 3 business reasons to choose Asigra

Why do so many MSPs choose Asigra? I get that question all the time. There are many reasons. Considering that this is a blog post, I will stick to highlighting just the top three.
Agentless Architecture- You may wonder how that can be a business reason, when it seems like a technical feature. Well it is [...]

Sales Insights

A fly on the wall

Those of you who know me well know that I’m a very inquisitive guy. I very much enjoy being a fly on the wall while listening to a nearby conversation that could potentially add some comedic value to my day.
I was on the commuter train early last month going to lovely downtown Toronto and became [...]

Cloud Backup

Public Vs- Private Cloud Backup

We were recently at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. For those of you who attended that as well, you’ll recall that throughout the week, there was tons of buzz around cloud computing. People were trying to make sense of public and private clouds and trying to understand how they might be able [...]

Cloud Backup

28th Gartner Data Center Conference Highlights

The team and I were in attendance at the 28th Annual Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas earlier in the month.  There were a few talking points that became central to most conversations on the show floor and around the hotel.  The two points that I saw the most reinforced were cloud computing and [...]

Cloud BackupFeatured

I Want to Restore my Data but . . . . . . . . . It’s Not There!!

This post is inspired by a tweet I saw recently from @thedren about having recovered data that was corrupted.

As a Solutions Engineer for a backup and recovery software vendor, the following customer conversation is all too familiar to me –
Customer – “I would like to talk to you about your backup software solution.”
Me – “OK. [...]

Cloud Backup

Backup of a mobile workforce

Asigra’s worldwide presence among service providers allows our team continuous exposure to some of the most complex business continuity and disaster recovery requirements. Building solutions to meet those dynamic customer requirements and compliance regulations is exciting and challenging work.
The loss of sensitive data is occurring almost daily throughout the world. There is even [...]