Implementing a client-server network and maintaining it with Managed Services can help businesses prevent data loss events, which lead 43 percent of such businesses to close within two years.
According to DriveSavers data recovery service, 43 percent of companies that lose data in a disaster never reopen, and 90 percent are out of business within two [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Disaster Recovery'
Preventing Data Loss with Managed Services
August 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security
Tags: Backup·Client-server Networks·Data Recovery·Managed Services·Security
Dallas Data Center has grown by 4 feet
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Cloud Computing, Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Virtualization
What four legged 9 week old requires onsite management and 24×7 monitoring? Dallas Data Center’s newest team member! Meet Melville, a 16.5 lbs male, black lab who is a guide dog puppy in training from Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, California. I’m sure you are all wondering why our new team member [...]
Tags: 24x7·Cloud Computing·Colocation·Dallas Data Center·Disaster Recovery·Future Guide Dog·Guide Dog·Guide Dog Puppy in Training·Guide Dogs for the Blind·Lone Star Puppy Raisers·Managed Hosting·Melville·Onsite Management·Puppy in Training·San Rafael California·Virtualization·www.guidedogs.org
Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season: Part 3: Has your business planned ahead?
July 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
In light of the beginning of this year’s hurricane season, we have written a three part series to keep you aware of the impact that such an unforeseen storm could have on your business.
The best time to respond to a disaster is before it even happens. As we stated in Part 1 of this series, [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·data backup·Disaster Recovery·Disaster Recovery Plan·Hurricane·Hurricane Season
Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season: Part 2: “I’m not in the flood plain so I’m not going to flood.” … Think Again!
July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
In light of the beginning of this year’s hurricane season, we have written a three part series to keep you aware of the impact that such an unforeseen storm could have on your business.
Many people think that bad things will never happen to them. They think that when a hurricane comes they won’t flood [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Disaster Recovery·Disaster Recovery Plan·Hurricane·Hurricane Season·Uptime
Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season: Part 1: How much could your business withstand?
July 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting
In light of the beginning of this year’s hurricane season, we have written a three part series to keep you aware of the impact that such an unforeseen storm could have on your business.
Hurricane season began on June 1st and will end on November 30th. During this time the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season forecast [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Disaster Recovery·Disaster Recovery Plan·Hurricane·Hurricane Season·Managed Hosting·Storm
Dallas Data Center……no flood here…..
June 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery
Recently there have been several articles written about a datacenter flooding in Dallas. I’d like to point out that this was a “datacenter located in Dallas”, not the business named Dallas Data Center as one might have been led to believe based on the subject lines of numerous articles written about the disaster. Here’s a [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Dallas Data Center·Dallas Morning News·Datacenters·Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery — An Increasingly Important Aspect of Your Business
June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services
As networks and devices become increasingly complex, more and more things can go wrong. As a result, disaster recovery plans have had to become more intricate.
Is yours good enough?
According to Jon William Toigo, the author of Disaster Recovery Planning, 15 or 20 years ago a disaster recovery plan might have consisted of powering down a [...]
Tags: Backed-up Data·Backup·Business Continuity·Disaster Recovery·Disaster Recovery Plan·Hurricane Katrina·IT Systems·Jon William Toigo·Managed Hosting·Managed IT Services·Manmade Disaster·Natural Disaster·Unforeseen Disaster
Why You Can’t Survive Without a Disaster Recovery Plan
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security
It’s simple: Businesses that suffer data losses usually fail as a result.
That’s according to a study by the Department for Trade and Industry, which found that 70 percent of small businesses suffering a major data loss are out of business within 18 months.
What this means is businesses have failed to protect themselves from a plethora [...]
Tags: Business Contunuity·Computer Virus·Data Losses·Department for Trade and Industry·Disaster Recovery·Disaster Recovery Plan·Hardware Malfunction·Managed Services·Ontrack·Security·Site Disaster·Software Malfunction·System Malfunction
Tornados and Floods…are you prepared?
May 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services
Ever wonder what it would look like if your business were destroyed by a flood? See firsthand what the Pep Boys location in Nashville caught on their security camera in early May.
What about a tornado? Watch this clip to see what impact a tornado can have on your business.
Both of these film clips should serve [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Disaster Recovery·Managed Services·Nashville Flood·Pep Boys·Tornado
Assessing and Documenting Your IT Needs
May 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security
You expect your computer to work when you turn it on. The last thing you want is to waste valuable time trying to get your email running or wrestling with a web browser that won’t load.
These are frustrations you surely have experienced, and chances are you will again. But you don’t have to. Or, at [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·IT Environment·IT Needs·IT Processes and Functions·Managed Services·Network Functions·Productivity·Recovery·Security
Brad Paisley Sings the Blues…
May 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Storage
Not even the rich and famous are immune from disasters so don’t think that it can’t happen to you. Just take a look at country singing sensations Brad Paisley and Keith Urban who are two of countless musicians that will most likely lose millions of dollars on performance gear due to the historic floods in [...]
Tags: Ben Jumper·Brad Paisley·Business Continuity·Cumberland River·Disaster Recovery·Flood·Flooding·Keith Urban·Man-made Disaster·Managed Hosting·Managed IT Services·Managed Services·Nashville·Nashville Flooding·Soundcheck Nashville·Tornado·Tweets·Twitter
Evaluating Your Backup Solution
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services
You can’t have a disaster recovery plan until you first have a good backup solution. Is your backup solution good—or just good enough?
The traditional backup process was done to tape – which had a number of limitations including high cost (particularly as capacity increases), difficult upgrades, degradation over time, and slow backup and restoration. Over [...]
Tags: Backup·Backup Solution·Business Continuity·Disaster Recovery·Disaster Recovery Plan·Managed Services
Is Your Disaster Recovery Plan Up To Date?
April 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security
Businesses are constantly changing. Is your disaster recovery plan changing, too? It should be.
Every company can experience a business-altering event at any time: floods, explosions, accidents, computer malfunctions—the list is endless.
If you have a disaster recovery plan, you’re prepared to prevent such events from disrupting your normal operations—or at least you were at the time [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Disaster Recovery·Managed Services
Cyberattacks Could Cause Disaster for U.S. Companies
March 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Security
The Cyber Security Act of 2009 was the subject of a February 2010 hearing where experts informed Senators of how U.S. companies are encountering an increasing amount of computer-based network attacks that are stripping them of much needed revenue and market advantages. With the intention to regulate entities that provide critical infrastructure for the United [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Computer-Based Network Attacks·Cyber Security Act·Cyberattacks·Cyberwar·Disaster Recovery·Electro-Mechanical Systems·Firewalls·Infrastructure·SCADA·Security·Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
10 GbE Throughput with iSCSI SAN? Wow!
February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Storage, Virtualization
An exciting new product to check out is the Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS6510 series of EqualLogic iSCSI SAN storage with supporting 10GbE technology. As stated by a recent article from Dell™, the products versions PS6510E and PS6510X integrate “intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability, and seamless [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Business Critical Applications·Data Protection·Dell·Dell EqualLogic·Dell R710·iSCSI SAN·PS6510·Storage Consolidation·Streaming Workloads·Virtualization
Are you Safeguarding your Data?
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security
With the continuous proliferation of data and its increasing importance to business, it has become critical to implement measures to safeguard it. One such measure is to make sure you have a data protection, backup, and recovery system in place. The threat of data loss from hardware failure, malware, or disaster is very real. A [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Data Loss·Data Protection·Disaster Recovery·Hardware Failure·Malware·Recovery System·Safeguard Data·Security
Business Impact of a Major Data Loss Event
February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security
Data breaches are costing companies more than ever, according to a recent study.
Data losses, which can result from theft or carelessness, are a downside of the information age. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), more than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in the United States—47 percent more than in 2007.
How [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Data Breaches·data management·Disaster Recovery·Identity Theft Resource Center·Security·The Ponemon Institute
Web Application Security a Growing Threat for Businesses
February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Security, Servers
A new report by security vendor Cenzic shares research indicating that security flaws found in Web applications continue to grow and should be a major concern for many businesses as more and more depend on the Web for their business. According to the report, almost 80 percent of more than 3,000 software security flaws publicly [...]
Tags: Apache·Cenzic·Cross-Site Scripting·IBM·Mozilla·Safari·Security·Sun·Vulnerabilities
Cloud Computing 101
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security, Servers, Storage
With more and more people and organizations accessing the Internet, and as the potential uses of the web grow, the way business is done is naturally evolving as well.
One example of this is the emergence of cloud computing services. In essence, this is the outsourcing of an organization’s IT services to a different company. Everything [...]
Tags: Budget·Cloud·Cloud Computing·Consolidation·Data Storage·Security·Servers·utility computing
Say GOODBYE to 2009 and Hello to 2010!!
January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization
Dallas Data Center would like to welcome you to a brand new year! Countless individuals start out the year with overdue New Year’s resolutions that can be tough to keep. At DDC, the commitment remains the same all year long. With a resolution to always provide excellence and value to our clients, we are able [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Disaster Recovery·Virtualization