In 2016, almost 85% (1) of physicians and hospital personnel reported that they brought their personal smartphones to work. At the same time, Accellion (2) also reported that 68% of healthcare security breaches were due to the loss or theft of personal mobile devices or files. These two statistics have led some healthcare institutions to … Continued
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While after-hours support might be seen as overkill, you can’t live without it either. As soon as you remove it from your quote, you increase the chance of losing the deal. As such, after-hours service is a fact of life for most MSPs. While not the most pleasant aspect of the job, there are ways to … Continued
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Working in the managed services industry has probably left you with an impressive collection of tools filling up your “toolkit”. But if you have more tools than clients then it’s time for a review of the tools you need and the tools that add dead weight to your MSP toolkit. We asked our MSP customer base … Continued
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The following is an excerpt form the thesleuthjournal.com Having an IT team on-call is very important to ensuring your company’s end product retains its high level of quality. Without this component, it would be considerably harder for the IT team to get the information they need when issues do arise. Additionally, it would also be … Continued
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Unlike other environments where IT represents a business expense, managed service providers (MSPs) are in a unique position to make money by delivering managed IT services. This gives them a unique set of IT challenges and opportunities – including the chance to create additional revenue by strategically utilizing tools like ConnectWise and OnPage to solve … Continued
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We recently published a blog article that highlighted seven reasons healthcare should end its love affair with pagers. We should have been more inclusive in our recommendation and suggested that all industries that use pagers should give them the boot. An article that came out this week in The UK Register reiterated the problems befalling … Continued
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OnPage loves going to IT Nation every year and IT Nation 2017 was no different. We met hundreds of our MSP customers over the three-day period who made us feel the love. ConnectWise currently integrates with about 200 vendors and OnPage enjoys the privilege of being the only Incident Alert Management platform to have a … Continued
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A new survey of 2,400 IT and security professionals conducted by The Ponemon Institute on behalf of IBM finds 66 percent of respondents say their organization is not prepared to recover from cyberattacks and other critical incidents. A growing trend is to let MSPs handle cyberattacks and other critical incidents. Those with experience have an … Continued
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How to Win the Alert Fatigue Battle IT engineers and DevOps teams cannot help but experience alert fatigue when they receive after-hour alerts lacking context or relevance. Messages come in, for example, telling the engineer on-call that disk space is used up. Does this mean 60% used up or 100% used up? Or an after-hours … Continued
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OnPage is in the business of saving it’s customers valuable time by mitigating human error and automating the entire alert management process. In the same vein our partners at ConnectWise and Cisco have joined hands to create a unique pilot program aimed at saving their customers time and improving overall efficiency. ConnectWise UNITE for Cisco … Continued
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