Cloud Backup Solution for outsourced IT Management company

I  really like Carbonite for this. We have used it on our subsidiary of 4 people. It is pretty much set it and forget it. You will get emails when backups are not working for a set amount of time.

In addition to working as an IT Manager, I also work as an outsourced IT Consultant for small / medium sized companies (and some individuals) that don't need or can't afford a full time IT person in house.Part of the services that I provide is ensuring that each customer's computer (or server) is backed up. Now that cloud backup has become more reasonably priced, I am looking for a solution that would allow me to centrally manage these backups for all of the different companies in one place. The current project that I'm working on is for a very small law office that doesn't even have a server, so it's only backing up desktop machines, but as time goes by I hope to implement a standard across all of my clients servers and/or desktops as needed. Some of the companies already have other solutions in place, so I guess my ideal would be to...
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