Disaster Recovery | Dallas Data Center

Entries Tagged as 'Disaster Recovery'

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

IT Asset Management

October 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Consolidation, Dedicated Servers, Green IT, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Uncategorized

Did you know….?
• IT Assets comprise the 2nd largest operational expense, next to employees in a typical company?
• IT Capital Expenditures represent a significant and in many cases majority share of annual capital expenditures for many companies?
IT Asset Management has been around for a long time in large Fortune 500 businesses and is now gaining [...]

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. [...]

Living in an HA World

April 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Cloud Computing, Colocation, Consolidation, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Green IT, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Virtualization

Today’s business can’t afford to be down. If you have a web presence, your business is on 24/7. If you don’t treat your infrastructure as if you are open around the clock, you could be losing opportunity. Many people think that in order to get HA (High Availability) in their hardware that they have to [...]

Dedicated Servers Now on Sale

March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Colocation, Consolidation, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Virtualization

Trying to grow your business but don’t have the technology to move forward? Dallas Data Center’s dedicated servers provide you with the hardware for only $249 per month with no term commitment and only a $100 set up fee.

Dallas Data Center’s dedicated servers are configured with the following specifications:

· Dual Xeon 3.2Ghz Processors
· 4 [...]

Successful Companies Run at Dallas Data Center

Pages

Archives

Categories

Tags