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How Managed Services Can Help You Weather the Recession

June 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Managed Services, Security

Industry analyst IDC predicts that the global economic recession will have a dramatic impact on small and mid-sized companies, but that doesn’t means these companies will stop spending on information technology (IT).
“Small and mid-sized businesses…will be increasingly interested in the productivity gains made possible by advanced technology,” said Raymond Boggs, vice president of SMB research [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Backup, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: 3 Plans You Can’t Afford NOT to Have

March 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Managed Services, Security

Companies sometimes think that disaster planning is only for larger corporations, but recent changes in technology make such planning affordable for almost all business sizes. In fact, small businesses today can’t afford to be without such planning.
As a business owner, you should have three goals when it comes to disaster planning: ensuring that you never [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What is Virtualization and What Can It Do for You?

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery, Green IT, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Storage, Virtualization

Virtualization is generating a lot of buzz in IT circles these days because it promises to dramatically change the way many companies manage and operate their IT infrastructure. Virtualization is a broad term that covers the creation of virtual computing resources—such as storage, the network, or even an entire machine. For example, using virtualization you [...]

Colocation Is The Perfect Hosting Solution

April 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Colocation, Disaster Recovery, Green IT, Managed Services, Virtualization

Attention all ex-customers of Core IP Networks

April 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Colocation, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Storage, Virtualization

If you were an innocent victim of the FBI’s raid this past Thursday at a Dallas ISP and need services, we can help. We have been helping a local company who had their 2 1/2 cabinets seized, which included all of their servers (network, web, domain, Exchange, SQL) and their backup, get back online ASAP. [...]

Open House and Networking Event

March 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Colocation, Uncategorized

Dallas Data Center is hosting an open house and networking event on Thursday, March 5, from 5pm to 7pm. All of our friends, customers, partners, and associates are invited to bring a friend and come unwind with a cold beverage and some hot conversation. We will be giving tours of the data center to all [...]

Backing up data, more cost effective than ever

February 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Storage

We all have to agree that losing our data would devastate our business. It is estimated that over 44% of people and businesses have lost data that was crucial to them. Another report states that over 50% of businesses that do loose data, are out of business within 2 years. If this is the case, [...]

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Is iSCSI for me?

February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Storage

The up and coming buzz word in the IT industry and new kid on the block is iSCSI. Before you can understand if iSCSI is for you, you need to know what it is. Essentially, iSCSI is “SCSI over IP”.SCSI has been around for many years, and it stands for Small Computer System Interface. This [...]

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