Through November Manage Protect Managing Director Andrew Johnson and Backup365 CTO Paul Colby presented in a series of webinars to discuss Backup365 with Manage Protect partners. During the well-attended online sessions, Paul and Andrew shared some of the latest features which are about to be released, as well as discussed plans and ideas for 2021. Especially interesting was the chance to explore Backup365’s new portal and take a deep dive…
In The News
Beware! Your Google Drive Trash items automatically trashed after 30 days
G-Suite customers BEWARE! Effective from the 13th October 2020, Google tells us every item in a user’s Trash folder will be permanently deleted after just thirty days (that 30 day mark is coming up quite soon). Previously, files were only permanently deleted after a user manually emptied their Trash folders with these ‘deleted’ being maintained indefinitely. This change matches the policies of other G Suite products and services, such as…
Workplace 2019.3 Service Update
Release Notes We’re pleased to announce the 2019.3 Workplace Update, which contains the following features, changes, and issue resolutions: Features Datto Rebranding Autotask Workplace is now Datto Workplace! The changes to all components of Workplace are purely cosmetic ones, as Workplace becomes incorporated into the Datto product range. You may not see many differences if you’ve applied custom branding, but you may note new URLs and other similar underlying name changes. Your…
MPevents: Mandatory Serious Data Breach Notification to become law
On the 13th of February, the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 was passed through the Australian Senate and will become law within 12 months. Australian businesses (with some exceptions), with a minimum turn-over of 3 million a year will be compelled to notify the privacy commissioner and their customers of any serious data breach or face a fine of up to $360,000 for individuals or $1.8 million for…
SMBiT Professionals National Conference
This year, Helene, David and Andrew spent two full days catching up with existing and new partners at the SMBiT Professionals National Conference as a sponsor and vendor. This is the second year we have sponsored this event, and fifth year of sponsorship of the SMBiT Professionals group. It was an exciting event, with 140 members in attendance and many vendors that we had also worked with before. Helene took to…
Brendan Gibson – CEO Sleepout
We are proud to support Brendan Gibson from Answers IT [Gold Partner] this year for his CEO Sleepout in Brisbane. We are proud to serve an organisation like Answer’s IT who consistently tries to help their community in so many ways. Well done Brendan & the Answer’s IT team!
Manage Protect in the Media
Last month, it was officially announced in Communications Day magazine, and ARN that Intermedia has moved into a Datacenter in Sydney, and has partnered with Manage Protect. “Intermedia said that over the next month, 400 of its partners would migrate to Manage Protect’s channel program – doubling that firm’s partner base to 800. It said key benefits of the partnership included local presales capacity, along with technical and billing support…
Colocation delivers Dropbox competitor to the region
Manage Protect, cloud-based security and mobility services provider, has employed award-winning IT infrastructure provider Zettagrid to host the local deployment of the Silicon Valley-based file sharing and collaboration platform Soonr in data centres including NEXTDC’s M1 Melbourne facility. Soonr recently appointed Manage Protect as its strategic distributor in Australia and New Zealand – a deal which illustrates the ability of colocation facilities like NEXTDC’s M1 to support the rapid deployment…
Soonr selects Manage Protect as Strategic Distributor in Australia and New Zealand
Manage Protect, provider of cloud technology to meet companies’ security and mobility needs, has been appointed by Soonr (www.soonr.com) as a strategic distributor of its cloud services that deliver “secure file sharing and collaboration” functionality for business users. Manage Protect, provider of cloud technology to meet companies’ security and mobility needs, has been appointed by Soonr (www.soonr.com) as a strategic distributor of its cloud services that deliver “secure file sharing…
Corporate file sharing: Soonr the better?
Enterprise-grade secure file sharing and collaboration provider has come to Australia with the appointment of Manage Protect as its strategic distributor. Unlike the consumer-oriented services, Soonr provides the level of security required by business users, company officials claimed. Its internal operational controls comply with SSAE-16 and ISAE 340, they explained. Australian customers’ data is stored redundantly in data centres in Sydney and Melbourne, they said, providing better performance thanks to low latency,…