 We are at the IT Nation Connect 2019 event here and MSP 360 is here, I'm here and I'm here on the behalf and this is Doug. Thanks, thanks Tom. Yeah, so first time I've ever met Doug in person I was on MSP Voice the very first episode and then twice, it's your anniversary one so it's awesome. I recently did the video on their MSP dashboard but he's going to tell you a little bit more about the product so you're not just hearing from me. I did the review of the product but he'll give you the sales pitch so go ahead and give him the sales pitch on the product. The main thing we talk about is choice and flexibility because we don't force you to go to any particular cloud. You can use any cloud storage that you want, it doesn't matter to us. We support AWS S3, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, Azure, Google, a whole host of others, anything that's S3 compatible so that gives MSP flexibility in choosing their cloud service. The other thing that's important is you own the cloud storage. So if something were to happen where you didn't want to use us anymore, guess what? That storage account is yours. We're not going to take it away if you want to move it to somebody else, not a problem. The other thing is you can back up to local so it's not just to the cloud, you can go to local, you can go to local and cloud at the same time. Image-based, file-based, virtual machine, Office 365, Google G Suite, we support all of that. This is one of the reasons we started really digging further in. So I use the product as their standalone product before and they've really matured under MSP tool for the dashboard. The client, there's a forum post I have on our forums where someone asks this question, I have so much data, sure we got it to the cloud but it would take X amount of time to get it back. I'm like, well, this is one of the reasons that we like CloudBerry is because they have that flexibility to give us a local storage option and have data replication going on. We even have clients that we're using it to replicate between two physical locations of client hands, but I can now manage it in a nice dashboard. And our dashboard has come along really well. I was actually telling him something he didn't know was when I did the review, I had talked to some of the engineers on the back end to ask a couple of questions. So I make sure I understood the product properly. I say, it'd be cool if it did this. And an interviewer was going to say, hey, this is a feature they said they're working on, but actually by the time I talked to them, like a week later, the product did it. So my review is still accurate. It actually has all the features. And I sold them. I was like, I actually had to pause. I'm like, well, wow, your guys, like their team works really fast. And that's been something kind of cool is being able to see a team that goes, hey, that's the needs you have. We're willing to program it. And being that company that's not trying to be the all encompassing one size fits all storage because, well, the reality is I have so many different clients of, you know, sure a document backup is easy, but if we're not talking about four terabytes of documents, you're talking about like clients that have crazy amounts of video storage and things like that. Who would have video storage? Oh, I know. Maybe some YouTubers. And you got to back it up. You got to put it somewhere. You know, so it's been a cool product for us. And that's why the NFRA did the review. They decided, you know, full of schools, they flew me down here and to come to the event, I'm going to be doing a couple of interviews while I'm down here. But it's kind of cool talking to I want to meet the people here in person, get to meet some interact with some people from CloudBerry, but it's a great product. If you were here, or maybe you are here, they do have candy bars. And if they have extra, maybe he can be on one. I don't know if that's true or not. I'm making it up. I'm putting them on the spot here. I think hopefully we don't have any leftover. Hopefully we give them all away because at the show there's a golden ticket and some of these, which could get you a Bluetooth speaker, which you have one of those. You know, I'm not a big Bluetooth speaker fan. And I'm like, okay, set me on cool. That's actually really nice. So the JBL ones, it actually works really good. It's on my desk all the time now. I thought about reviewing it. It's such a one off for my channel review, but I'm like, this is really nice sound. So we're giving away that as well as a drone. DJI Spark drone. Oh, those are golden tickets. That's the chance to win. But they have, we'll leave a link below for tracking. So what can we do with that? So we're giving away an iPad, maybe two. I think one, maybe two. I don't know. But anyway, if you click the link below and you sign up for our, you sign up for manage backup for the free trial, that gets you entered into a drawing for an iPad. So, you know, we're, we're trying to, if you're not at the show, we still want to, we still want to help you out. Yeah. So I know not everybody can make it down here to Florida. It's hot here too, by the way, from Detroit. It's going to be, it's going to cool off. Fall arrives tomorrow. Fall arrives. All right. It's only going to be 79 degrees tomorrow. Really? Okay. It's like 90 today. It's warm. It's someone who's like in a wilder climate. This is like one of those miserable hot days we have in Michigan. And it's like, it's all the time here. Yeah, it's been, it's been this way since April. Ah. Well May. May. Okay. So I live here. I live it. He's used to it. Yeah. He's prepared for this mother. But I'll look for some more reviews on Wasabi, because I'm doing a review pretty soon on Wasabi, which back to that storage choice, they have a really cool storage program that seems really affordable. I did some research on a company. They're kind of cool. And look for some reviews. I'm going to be testing out the Office 365 backup, because that, for compliance, that's kind of something that becomes important, being able to back up and archive a lot of stuff. So, and they have a G Suite one too. So it all becomes part of the dashboard. Like I said, it's a cool product. We've, we're slowly migrating things over to it. And it's been so far. Yeah. It's been a pleasant experience. Great. I've been doing BlackBage right now for anyone wondering, I'm looking at Wasabi. We're doing BlackBage, and it's been working great with BlackBage though, but, you know, Wasabi's got a really cool product, and they seem to be, they're a hot topic, not just because they have a lot of ads. I got them at the ads I've heard from, because like they're sponsoring every podcast I listen to. That got me at least turning it onto them. But it was actually, if you find there's an entry of the CEO down on a Twitter network, and they actually have a really neat product. When you hear it from the product standpoint from the CEO, I'm like, okay. But, you know, I don't pick any one vendor over the other, right? It doesn't matter to us, but I think the cool thing that Backblaze does is they do their hard drive report. I love Backblaze. That is like one of the coolest things, because they're literally spending thousands and thousands of drives. Consumer drives. Read the story behind Backblaze and 45 Drives, which by the way, you've seen me probably on the channel wear 45 Drives swag, they send me swag. They won't send me a Stornator, but they'll send me swag. You can build one, it's open source, isn't it? Yeah. Well, the big giant box, they make the hardware that holds like 60 drives at a time. Yeah, okay. They won't send you one of those? Not for free. I know. They said, if you look, they made a Keggerator, too. It's a rack-mounted beer holder. Nice. It's a one-off product that they made as a joke, but then had to actually produce it because people kept asking for it. And then they stopped, but they, I don't know if they'll bring it back, so 45 Drives is watching this. That's all it's there. But this is kind of the advantage, like I said, I can talk about different storage vendors, but I can keep my same backup vendor, which is kind of neat. And you understand, I can separate the backup, but having them as components now means I can change, because with Sabi's, what I'm talking about, right now, October 2019, and actually I can tell you that they suck, or that you didn't go well, and I'm still going back plays. And my clients are none the wiser. We didn't have to do any software changes. You just point anywhere you point buckets. And that's, that makes life easier. And they may, in fact, you can use both at the same time. You don't have to choose one or the other. You can actually, some of the people in back plays, which we're going to leave some of them in there because the back plays system just works well. And what's already set up in Proc, don't fix it. There's, I'll just redirect those clients with those unique storage to, like, Wasabi, or whoever the next X3-compatible storage places. There's one every day, almost. Yep. All the time. And you guys seem to write an API. You're like, oh, a new one came out. Like, your team just likes to write, time-writing our API guys. There's so many of them. That's the other thing. Here at the show, people have been coming up and saying, hey, we have our own data center. Can we have our customers write to us? And I'm like, yeah, just present some S3-compatible storage. And they're like, well, what's that? I'm like, just stand it up. You carve out some storage and guess what? You've got S3-compatible. That's an option in our software is to use S3-compatible and boom. And for your DR plan, that kind of makes sense because if you have a client, you have to have that data geographically close because you have to get it back to them fast if there's a disaster much closer than having it in your backyard. And, you know, they already have a data center. They've got all this storage. Why pay one of the cloud providers if they can do it themselves and host it themselves for their customers? Okay. That's an option too. Yeah. I think it works as well. I thought about doing a video because I think, I've never tested it, but Freeness has an S3-compatible as well. So, once again, and that's what we're going to look at. One of our tests we're going to do is see how we can build it like that. Should work? Yep. All right. Well, leave a link below so you can enter for the offer for the one or two iPads. 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