Erick and Rich greet the new year with a look at SolarWinds MSP’s new name, the new business plan you should be drafting right now, and the amusing fallout from a little too much holiday drinking for a reveler in the U.K.
Erick and Rich mull over the grim implications of the SolarWinds Orion hack, discuss a specific technique for taking word of mouth marketing to the next level, and gaze in delighted wonder as 32 illuminated portable toilets sing Christmas carols.
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Over half of MSPs protect Microsoft 365 data for only 10% of their clients, according to Axcient, which is offering free not-for-resale licenses to its cloud-to-cloud backup solution in response.
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The new offering, which rolls Axcient’s Replibit, BRC, and Fusion systems together into a fully-integrated package, marks a significant milestone in a strategic consolidation process that began three years ago when Axcient and eFolder merged.
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The free solution provides end-to-end support for automated demand generation campaigns, MDF activities, and more. It will also play a contributing role in forthcoming plans to funnel leads generated by Axcient itself to the vendor’s most engaged partners.
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In his new role, Robertson (pictured right) will oversee a consolidated sales, marketing, and partner success organization tasked with helping CEO David Bennett (pictured left) make Axcient the industry’s easiest data protection vendor to do business with.
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Part of a larger move by Acronis from BDR and storage into security as well, the new interfaces are designed to let a broad ecosystem of technology partners tailor Acronis solutions to specific needs or weave those solutions together with their own.
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His charter when he officially steps into his new role next month will be helping a company that has completely re-tooled itself in the last 19 months as a business availability vendor with an MSP-first channel hit the gas pedal on growth.
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The data protection vendor is rolling out new partner resources and paying “obsessive” attention to partner satisfaction as well in connection with a renewed focus on attracting and retaining MSPs, according to Chief Revenue Officer Jeff Cummings (pictured).
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The latest member of the distributor’s expanding catalog of software-as-a-service offerings gives partners another option for generating recurring commissions selling hybrid cloud solutions to their customers.
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The deal makes the Anchor file sync and share and Cloudfinder data backup solutions available through an indirect channel, and in small order quantities, for the first time.
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Called Unite and targeted at businesses with up to 100 users, the system includes tightly integrated voice, cloud PBX, collaboration, file storage, and backup features, as well as all-new mobile and desktop apps and an enhanced web portal.
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