Webinar: Building the Right Cloud Backup Partnership – Five Tips for Managed Service Provider Success

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Asigra and MSP Mentor will host a Channel Expert Hour webcast featuring five tips for ensuring a successful cloud backup vendor/service provider partnership. This webinar will give Managed Service Providers (MSPs) the low down on getting the most out of their relationships with cloud backup technology enablers.

TORONTO, CANADA, February 6, 2012 (PressReleasePoint) – Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup™ and recovery software provider since 1986 and MSP Mentor will host a Channel Expert Hour webcast featuring five tips for ensuring a successful cloud backup vendor/service provider partnership. This webinar will give Managed Service Providers (MSPs) the low down on getting the most out of their relationships with cloud backup technology enablers. The speakers will also cover how they successfully set pricing, margins, and service level agreements by taking advantage of the cloud. Managed services experts will describe how partnering with Asigra has allowed them to build a cloud recovery and backup service for their business.

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WHO:   MSP Mentor, Asigra, BUMI (BackupMyInfo!), Data Storage Corporation

WHAT: MSPs are invited to learn from industry leaders who have taken control of their backup service offering by working with leading cloud backup and recovery service enablers. During the webinar, participants will learn about the challenges and successes of cloud backup. Featured speakers will focus on five key points for MSP success in the cloud.

WHEN: February 8th, 2012 from 2:00PM – 3:00PM ET

WHERE: Registration is available at http://tinyurl.com/7vrdzjy

Today, cloud backup is a hot commodity. However, Managed Service Providers are struggling to find the right business partner in a confusing cloud backup landscape. This Channel Expert Hour webcast will showcase executives from leading Managed Service Providers who partnered with Asigra to build their own cloud backup and recovery solution. Each of these Managed Service Providers utilized five key business moves that guaranteed their success in the cloud and received value beyond the software and expertise provided by Asigra.

Managed Service Providers that lack IT resources, want to improve their backup services with reliable and secure data protection or are looking to extend the capabilities of their backup service offering can take advantage of partnering with Asigra and transform the way they do business. Asigra provides businesses with a seamless, production-hardened cloud backup and recovery platform that is functional, scalable and the most secure in the industry. For progressive MSPs who seek a true business partner that transcends technology, Asigra provides an integrated business model of marketing, sales and technology to take cloud-based data protection to the next level.

During the webinar, attendees will hear from Eran Farajun, EVP of Asigra, Jennifer Walzer, CEO of BUMI (Backup My Info!), and Matthew Grosso, EVP of Data Storage Corporation about five principles that are proven to maximize the benefits of cloud backup services.

Managed Service Providers Powered by Asigra Cloud Backup protect more than 400,000 customer sites around the world. The company’s all-encompassing set of features, including the industry’s only FIPS 140-2 certified solution for unbeatable security, makes Asigra the best choice for Managed Service Providers. Asigra’s pro-channel business model rewards marketing efforts and partner sales on a pro-rata basis, leveling the playing field for any size service provider. By utilizing this model partners benefit from valuable company incentives and maximum margins.

About MSP Mentor

MSP Mentor is a fully integrated media platform that provides services, such as the MSPmentor blog, MSPmentor 100 and MSPmentor 250 lists of successful MSP businesses and experts, the Channel Expert Hour, FastChat Videos, a weekly eNewsletter, managed service tweets, databases, custom media and guest speaking for events.

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About Asigra

Asigra is the leading Canadian cloud computing vendor focused on backup, recovery and restoration with more than 400,000 customer sites deployed globally. Asigra Cloud Backup™ transforms the way businesses manage and protect their data by delivering seamless end-to-end data protection that efficiently scales and easily adapts to any IT environment. Asigra Cloud Backup is built for mature business savvy MSPs/VARs who focus on   data protection, IT constrained organizations, and industries with compliance mandates that are looking to improve their backup with a secure, proven and flexible cloud backup and recovery model. With more than 25 years of experience as backup/recovery pioneers, Asigra manages one of the largest business-class backup service provider ecosystems in the world who power their cloud backup services using Asigra technology. Asigra is recognized among top-tier industry analysts, including the Enterprise Strategy Group, Gartner, IDC, Forrester Research and the 451 Group. Recently, the company was recognized as Best Channel Vendor 2012 by Business Solutions and the company was recognized as a leader in cloud backup in 2011 by the MSPmentor 250, a leading online destination for managed service providers. Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices globally. For more information, visit www.asigra.com.

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Joe Austin

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