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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.

Prometheus, developed by SoundCloud, is a powerful open-source system for service monitoring and time series data storage. It collects metrics from configured targets, evaluates rule expressions, presents results, and triggers alerts based on defined conditions. Thanos, on the other hand, is a collection of components designed to create a highly available metric system with limitless storage capacity.

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.