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It's #WorldBackupDay, and we're here to say something that others might not: Backup alone is not enough. 🫣 If you're an #MSP, your clients aren't just paying for backup. They're trusting you to guide them, instill confidence, and be their support system when things go very wrong. When you onboard, you'll need to be ready to answer hard questions: 🔴 Can you guarantee recovery if an entire cloud region, or an entire cloud goes down? 🔴 Can you protect #multicloud clients or assist those that are looking to be expand to another hyperscaler? 🔴 Are your clients getting surprise storage bills? 🔴 Do you understand legal requirements and can you prove compliancy with all relevant industry and government standards, and even future ones? If you are hesitating at all, join us tomorrow and learn how to: ✅ Confidently prove your indispensability to clients ✅ Scale your client base without bottlenecks ✅ Stop managing every customer workload in a silo Petar B. and Catalin Voicu will show you how it's done. 🗓️ Tomorrow, April 1st. Choose your timezone. Don't miss it. https://lnkd.in/eGsyjgxp

Running #cloudbackup for multiple clients is no small feat. At N2W , we completely get it. Every customer has different needs, different budgets, different risks, and #compliance requirements that seem to grow exponentially. The tools you rely on to manage backup and #disasterrecovery directly affect the risk your clients carry. And the wrong approach will make you feel like each additional customer is a time-intensive project. MSPs aren't just backup providers. You're trusted partners, which means bringing compliance expertise, cost savings, and multi-cloud resilience to every client relationship. That's why we're hosting a session built specifically for MSPs. Join us to learn how to speed up client onboarding, manage every account under one roof, and grow your future-focused business with the tools built to help you. 📅 Wednesday, April 1st (choose your timezone) 👥 Petar B. & Catalin Voicu 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eGsyjgxp

New case study just dropped. 🚀 Zero&One is one of the most prominent #MSPs in the Gulf Region, and the Middle East's first homegrown Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Consulting Partner. Six years ago, Wassim El TAWIL's cloud engineering team adopted N2W to tackle a problem every growing MSP knows well: every onboarded customer became a huge project, as they all came with completely different expectations. Their vast wishlist ranged from any of the following: 📝 Cross-region disaster recovery 📝 Faster restore times 📝 Frequent backups without touching production 📝 Multi-account visibility and DR 📝 Cost-optimized storage strategies 📝 Automated drills, reporting, and more compliance evidence Six years later and N2W delivered on all of it, and then some. Wassim's team is rapidly scaling their client base while cutting backup costs by up to 85%. Check out not only the full case study, but also watch Angel Wakim, who leads the innovation team, sit down with Jon Myer for an interview that gets into the details of how they pulled it off. 👉 https://lnkd.in/e7mg9ud4

New case study just dropped. 🚀 Zero&One is one of the most prominent #MSPs in the Gulf Region, and the Middle East's first homegrown Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Consulting Partner. Six years ago, Wassim El TAWIL's cloud engineering team adopted N2W to tackle a problem every growing MSP knows well: every onboarded customer became a huge project, as they all came with completely different expectations. Their vast wishlist ranged from any of the following: 📝 Cross-region disaster recovery 📝 Faster restore times 📝 Frequent backups without touching production 📝 Multi-account visibility and DR 📝 Cost-optimized storage strategies 📝 Automated drills, reporting, and more compliance evidence Six years later and N2W delivered on all of it, and then some. Wassim's team is rapidly scaling their client base while cutting backup costs by up to 85%. Check out not only the full case study, but also watch Angel Wakim, who leads the innovation team, sit down with Jon Myer for an interview that gets into the details of how they pulled it off. 👉 https://lnkd.in/e7mg9ud4

If you're running backup operations for an MSP, chances are every new client you onboard is a huge undertaking. Our upcoming session on April 1st is dedicated to #MSPs and resellers that are looking to address this and other critical pain points we've seen in nearly every partner we work with, and of course, how to fix them. 💡Scaling data, #compliance mandates, #RPOs and other complexities that come with every new customer 💡Suprise storage spend that you only find out about after the fact 💡Recovery uncertainty and providing trust that's more than just 'we backed it up' 💡Becoming the future-forward #multicloud partner your clients need If backup ops are slowing your growth, this one's for you (choose your timezone) 🗓 https://lnkd.in/eGsyjgxp

#Kubernetes seems to be everywhere. And #AWS #EKS adoption is surging right along with it as organizations hand off upgrades, patching, and high availability to the hyperscaler. Snapchat, VMware, Netflix are just a few massive enterprises running workloads on K8s. So why is backup still so hard? Kubernetes isn't like other services. It's dynamic, constantly moving, volumes are attaching and detaching, components scatter across your cluster... K8 refuses to sit still long enough to be protected cleanly. This is why it's known as the "eight-headed monster". Backing up a single EKS cluster means you have to wrestle eight things at once. Our own Tsofnat Chai lived this firsthand while building N2W's EKS backup system. In her latest, she shares five hard-won lessons from that process. A must read if you're running EKS and assuming your data is protected. 👇 https://lnkd.in/e5VXmE9b 

We've been following the aftermath of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) UAE outage, and there's one aspect that isn't getting enough attention. For regulated organizations operating under the Central Bank of the UAE (#CBUAE), when an entire AWS Middle East region goes down, even if they did have cross-region #DisasterRecovery in place, they could not simply failover to Europe or the US. The CBUAE requires that customer data be processed and stored within UAE borders. What's an IT team to do when their only compliant region is offline? And what can any organization learn from this scenario, particularly when geopolitical risks aren't factored into our recovery scenarios? Read our full analysis HERE: https://lnkd.in/erVr8ChS

Before you can fix spending problems, you need to understand what you’re actually paying for. #Azure backup costs are not predictable, nor are they transparent. Most teams haven’t even thought to analyze their #cloudstorage costs because that’s just ‘what the bill says’. We broke down exactly what's driving the cost, and how to fix it: smart tiering, licensing fee elimination, and a simpler way to protect your data. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dFgBVbs8

On March 1st in the UAE, something physically struck an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in the middle of the night. What the fire department initially assessed as a minor incident escalated quickly into something that forced #Amazon to cut all power to the facility. An entire Availability Zone was instantly gone. The other AZs were technically healthy and failover should have worked. But the sudden surge of traffic hitting those zones caused overload, and #EC2 instances became unreachable via APIs, without a warning. Businesses across the Gulf region went down and it took a full 17 hours to resolve. N2W has been around since 2012. We've seen many data centers go dark via misconfigurations, flooding, hurricanes, an update that should have gone smoothly. But a physical military strike in the middle of the night wasn't something many saw coming. These AWS customers in the Gulf region weren't being careless. They had multi-AZ configured, UAE has no real hurricane exposure. Perhaps negligible flood risk. From a traditional DR perspective, the architecture looked solid. We can say confidently that after contacting our customers affected in the region, those that implemented cross-region #DisasterRecover using N2W weren't at all caught off guard. They had a clean, isolated backup in a completely separate region that took a minute or two to restore. They didn't have to manually configure air-gapping and they were able to automatically drill a complete multi-resource recovery on a regular basis using Recovery Scenarios. Geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruptions, physical security incidents, all of these variables are expanding, and looking at an unknown future, there's no way we can understand what our risks are. The time to discover your gaps is not at 2am when the API calls start failing. If you feel you need a bit more prep and are unsure where your team stands when it comes to #cloudnative disaster recovery, we urge you to read our Cloud Outage Guide.> https://lnkd.in/ef4Y82ZE Or simply reach out to us. We're more than happy to assess your BDR health. info@n2ws.com