N-able started its Business Transformation Program a few years ago, and since then it’s been helping N-able partners boost their business growth. In a recent video shot during Empower in Prague, Robert Wilburn, VP partner growth, and Chris Massey, senior product marketing manager, Partner Success, discussed how and why it was important for N-able to create this program for its partners.

In a world where technology is ubiquitous, network security is of paramount importance. Every day that goes by, cybercrime evolves and becomes more sophisticated. They improve the materials of their balaclavas and spend more on incognito sunglasses. In 2015, the damage caused by cybercrime already cost the world 3 trillion dollars, since then the figure has only multiplied. No wonder companies are looking for ways to protect themselves against cyberattacks, don’t you think?

In this day and age, reliable data backups are essential for the success of every business or organization that uses technology. There are many effective data backup software solutions that you can rely on to keep your data safe. However, when it comes to choosing a provider to safeguard critical data, organizations don’t want “good” options; they want the best. As you search for a new provider, reference this list of the best backup software for businesses in 2023.

Amidst mounting pressure from macroeconomic headwinds, businesses must prepare for declining consumer spending, less investment, and tighter credit conditions to survive. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) play a valuable role in helping businesses to navigate upcoming economic downturns, from optimizing costs to providing scalable solutions.

Endpoints can be found in a variety of industries and settings, but we’ll be focusing on endpoint devices within IT environments. In this article, we provide a general overview about what endpoint devices are, the purpose they serve, as well as how you can better manage and protect these devices within your organization.

There are plenty of disturbing data backup statistics everywhere you look. For instance, “60% of backups are incomplete and 50% of restores fail,” Ontech systems confirms. According to Invenio IT, “ 72% of all users had to recover from a data backup at least once in the past year, and 33% had to do so more than once.” All these statistics make one fact crystal clear: data backup software is essential for every organization.

A variety of factors, such as the pandemic and digital transformation, have moved organizations and all their data online, which has made backing up business data to cloud storage become more of the norm.

Ask Maria von Trapp from the Sound of Music what her favourite things are, and she’ll quickly rattle off a list including, raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens and even brown paper packages tied up with strings. But over the years if you’ve ever asked me what my favourite things are (to Automate), I’ve often struggled to give an answer. The problem is, there is so much to choose from and where do you begin?

The Patch Management Engine (PME) in N-able N-sight RMM has been updated! I cannot stress how excited I am for granular patching. With the ever-changing security landscape in today’s world, we need more control over patching than ever. In this blog, I will quickly review the PME updates and give some quick-hit best practices that have served me well in the real world.

Monitoring disk space is a basic but core component of proactive IT support, critical to reducing ticket volume and maintaining system health and stability. Running low on or running out of disk space can obviously be responsible for a host of issues and user complaints — from application failures to complete system crashes — so creating alerts for when drives fall below a specified threshold is a great way to head those off.

At N-able’s recent Empower partner event in Prague, we took the opportunity to ask some Cove Data Protection users what they actually think about the product. Naturally, we were pleased to hear so many positive comments, but we also found that their reasons for choosing Cove varied, as did the capabilities they value most. Here’s a little sample.

The world around us continues to evolve and as a result, critical events are increasing in frequency and severity. This evolution has created a critical need for organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover quickly when they happen.

The dawn of the SaaS-first era, paired with the proliferation of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, has undoubtedly reshaped the business landscape. Organizations now have an arsenal of SaaS tools at their disposal—everything from email to CRMs, to file sharing to AI tools that make their job easier. These SaaS tools foster innovation, streamline workflows, and ultimately drive profitability.

As N-able Head Nerds we are continually looking for ways our partners can better support their end-users. So it’s hugely beneficial for us to visit with our partners when we can to see all the different approaches they take in supporting their customers. On a recent trip to South Africa, Marc-Andre Tanguay visited First Technology KZN in Durban. Whilst there the team showed Marc-Andre the custom BSOD monitor they had built to detect if a machine had suffered the dreaded Blue Screen of Death.

Mobile device management (MDM) is software that enables organizations to support, automate, control, and secure mobile devices that are connected to the workplace and that have access to organizational data. MDM software is needed for each type of operating system because they all function a little differently from one another. Android MDM is software designed specifically for mobile devices that run the Android operating system (OS).