Azure Site Recovery Features
Azure Site Recovery Features Azure Site Recovery (ASR) can provide quick, simple, and cost-effective means to design and deploy a functional disaster recovery plan. ASR can work with many on-premises technologies as well as within Azure. Microsoft has tested out many crucial business applications to ensure ASR can provide failover capabilities. In addition, you will […]
How to Save Cost with Infrastructure-As-A-Service
How to Save Cost with Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) Cost Savings Scale IT Pros say this a lot about Azure and AWS. It’s true that Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) is the most expensive way to use cloud services. Conversely, Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) and Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) keep costs lower due to economies of scale. Simply lifting and shifting infrastructure and VMs […]
Should You Back Up Your Data in Microsoft Office 365?
Should You Back Up Your Data in Microsoft Office 365? In one word? “Maybe” It is a business decision that may depend on a diverse set of factors including: What are your business objectives, requirements, policies, etc? How do your retention policies align with your objectives? Do you have to backup for auditing purposes? If […]
eGroup Named One of 2018 Tech Elite Solution Providers by CRN
Mount Pleasant, SC, March 26, 2018 – eGroup announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named eGroup to its 2018 Tech Elite 250 list. This annual list honors an exclusive group of North American IT solution providers that have earned the highest number of advanced technical certifications from leading technology suppliers, […]
Azure Backup Server Installation
Azure Backup Server Installation The final two deployment options for Azure Backup are System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) and Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). Since both are very similar this article will review how to deploy MABS. Except for the small monthly Azure costs, MABS is completely free. Customers do not need any System Center or SQL […]
eGroup named to Elite 150 of MSPs by CRN
eGroup, Together, we make IT happen, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named eGroup to its 2018 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Elite 150 category. This annual list recognizes North American solution providers with cutting-edge approaches to delivering managed services. Their offerings help companies navigate the complex […]
Getting Started with Azure Storage
Getting Started with Azure Storage Microsoft Azure Storage is a cloud-based storage solution that provides easy access and secure, high availability for all storage needs. Azure Storage has many different options to configure based on the type of storage that is required. This can provide a great alternative for tasks like backups or file shares and may even be able to […]
Azure Pricing
Azure Pricing In our last article we discussed the four (4) different ways to use Microsoft’s Azure Backup services. With Azure Backup, regardless of the way you deploy, the cost of Azure Backup is the same. You pay per protected instance and storage consumption. For storage, Azure Backup uses Block Blob storage and you can choose […]
Four Primary Ways to Use Azure Backup
Four Primary Ways to Use Azure Backup Azure Backup is the Microsoft’s cloud-based service you can use to back up and restore your data in Microsoft Azure. Azure Backup can replace your existing backup solution with a pure cloud-based solution that is reliable, secure, and competitive in cost and functionality to all major enterprise backup solutions. Azure Backup […]
How to Create Data Loss Prevention Custom SITs
How to Create Data Loss Prevention Custom SITs Data loss prevention (DLP) is a strategy for making sure that end users do not send sensitive or critical information outside the corporate network, accidentally or intentionally. Adoption of DLP is being driven by insider threats and by more rigorous state privacy laws, many of which have […]
