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Cybersecurity

Oct 13, 2021

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Common Threat Vectors for SMBs

Nina Novak

October marks the beginning of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a month-long campaign to raise awareness of the need for a collective and proactive approach to cybersecurity. The campaign comes when the threat to businesses is greater than ever.

BCDR Datto Products

Oct 06, 2021

Datto Cloud vs Cloud Backup Replication

Dan Ciccone

There was a time when taking a backup and ensuring it existed in another physical location was considered best practice. But this is no longer the case. Rather than using on prem for backup, more managed service providers (MSPs) are looking to the cloud to save clients’ time. For those companies still doing a backup and sending it elsewhere, having a true cloud failover should be a consideration because having it gives access to data within 24 hours in the event of a system failure.

DattoCon NOW isn’t your typical virtual event.

Datto News

Oct 01, 2021

DattoCon NOW isn’t your typical virtual event.

Rob Rae

DattoCon NOW is happening on Wednesday, October 13, as an entirely virtual experience. If you’re like me and have attended a number of virtual events over the past 18 months, they’re probably starting to blend together.

Autotask PSA Updates Enhance the Co-Managed Experience

PSA

Sep 21, 2021

Autotask PSA Updates Enhance the Co-Managed Experience

Deepak Manoor

Autotask PSA is designed to drive efficiency, accountability, and intelligence for managed service providers (MSPs) by unifying people, processes, and data to provide a singular view across their IT managed services business.

DattoCon Seattle is now DattoCon NOW - a virtual experience

Datto News

Sep 17, 2021

DattoCon Seattle is now DattoCon NOW - a virtual experience

Rob Rae

It’s important for DattoCon to meet the high standards set by the MSP community, and after spending weeks watching the uncertainty around travel and events in a pandemic, we realized we can’t promise a world-class in-person DattoCon.

Datto’s Autotask PSA Growth Package A Powerful Solution To Help Emerging MSPs

Datto Products PSA

Sep 15, 2021

Datto’s Autotask PSA Growth Package A Powerful Solution To Help Emerging MSPs

Deepak Manoor

Emerging MSPs require a simple platform that’s easy to learn and use, can provide visibility to drive productivity, client satisfaction, informed decisions, and profitability and can grow with them as they mature.

Datto Continuity for Microsoft Azure Has Arrived!

BCDR Datto Products

Sep 14, 2021

Datto Continuity for Microsoft Azure Has Arrived!

Sumiti Narang

With Datto Continuity for Microsoft Azure, MSPs now have the ability to customize protection and streamline recovery for critical business infrastructure residing in Microsoft Azure. When paired with cloud technology, this comprehensive BCDR solution enables new revenue streams as you support your clients and transition to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) models.

Automating the Build Process for New Workstations and Servers

MSP Best Practices

Sep 10, 2021

Automating the Build Process for New Workstations and Servers

Mathew Smith

Building new workstations and servers often involve repetitive tasks that traditionally involve a checklist and an engineer’s significant time to complete.

Datto Saas Protection Now Offers Client Billing Integration with Datto Autotask PSA

PSA SaaS Protection

Sep 08, 2021

Datto Saas Protection Now Offers Client Billing Integration with Datto Autotask PSA

Ona Blanchette

Autotask PSA is the central hub for MSPs, and we are excited to announce Datto SaaS Protection now offers integrated client billing functionality with Datto Autotask PSA.

How to protect endpoints with Multi-level Security Strategy

RMM

Aug 31, 2021

How to protect endpoints with Multi-level Security Strategy

Mathew Smith

It is important that MSPs have visibility of user devices and often turn to an RMM solution, especially as the workforce becomes further separated from the corporate network.

BCDR and RMM: SaaS vs. On-premises Solutions

Ransomware

Aug 27, 2021

BCDR and RMM: SaaS vs. On-premises Solutions

John Maxwell

In this third and final installment of our series we look at how SaaS cloud-based solutions provide benefits of on-prem solutions but without the overhead.

Practitioner Certification Now Available for Datto RMM

Partner Program

Aug 25, 2021

Practitioner Certification Now Available for Datto RMM

Jeff Reinholtz

Since the launch of Datto Academy last year, the Partner Learning team has been focused on finding ways to help our partners to maximize their knowledge and use of our products.