A recent survey on the perception of cloud computing shows that almost half of small businesses are unconvinced of the benefits that cloud computing can offer. With better and easier IT management through the Internet as well as features like secure off-site data storage, cloud computing is at least worth a second look.
A recent survey [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Storage'
The Cloud: What Difference Does It Make?
October 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Cloud, Cloud Computing, Storage
Tags: Cloud·Cloud Computing·Storage
Eight Questions to Ask Yourself about Disaster Recovery
July 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Backup, Disaster Recovery, Storage
One of the most dangerous yet common mistakes business owners make is assuming “it will never happen to me”. However, there are only two types of people: those who have had a data loss and those who are about to.
What would happen to your business if you had a major data loss? The possibility is [...]
Tags: Backup·Disaster Recovery·Storage
Lost Laptops: a Billion-Dollar Annual Expense for Business
July 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Security
Every time a business laptop is lost or stolen, an organization takes a direct cost hit to the tune of millions of dollars. Given the significant financial impact of missing laptops and the vulnerabilities of stolen laptop data, it is astonishing that the majority of companies aren’t taking even basic precautions to protect them.
The worst [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Data Loss·Security·Storage·theft
Lessons Learned from Japan
May 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
The 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan was not a local event; it triggered a tsunami warning for Southern California, impacting many American companies—and reminding all of us just how important it is to have a Business Continuity Plan.
What Japan Can Teach Us about Business Continuity
When a powerful earthquake rocked northeast Japan [...]
Dropbox: 5 Uses You Might Not Have Considered
April 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Backup, Cloud Computing, Storage
I’m a Dropbox fan boy; I admit it, and am going to weekly meetings. Not really, but I have sincerely drunk the Dropbox Kool-Aid. There are many services that do the same thing Dropbox does (Sugar-Sync, SpiderOak, etc.), but none of them do it nearly as elegantly and efficiently. Dropbox isn’t as cheap as other solutions [...]
Tags: Applications·Backup·Cloud Computing·dropbox·Productivity·Storage
How Adding Cloud Services Can Save Your Business
March 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Backup, Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting, Servers
If you’ve seen the current commercials Microsoft is running, you may already have the feeling that cloud-based services are great for personal use, whether it’s for accessing your home media center from a distance or storing the family photos online. But as cloud computing becomes more widespread, it’s establishing itself as a viable and smart [...]
How to Assess Your Backup Solution
March 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Backup, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security, Storage
Most backup solutions available these days certainly do a good job of backing up your data. However, all backup solutions are not the same, and careful assessment is needed to ensure your backup solution is suitable for your requirements.
It’s impossible to have a disaster recovery plan without first having an efficient backup solution. So, the [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Disaster Recovery·Managed Services·Security·Storage
Three Business Plan Essentials: Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity
November 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security, Storage, Virtualization
Erratic by nature, disasters (natural or man-made) can happen anywhere at any time, and often with little or no warning at all. Planning ahead is imperative to ensure that your business can get back to normal operation as quickly as possible, with minimal loss and damage.
Small to medium-sized businesses usually think that disaster plans are [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·catastrophic·Colocation·Dallas Data Center·disaster·Disaster Recovery·Disaster Recovery Plan·IT Infrastructure·IT Management·IT Services·Managed Hosting·Managed Services·ROI·Storage
Storage At Its Finest
November 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Dedicated Servers, Managed Services, Servers, Storage, Virtualization
For those who haven’t heard or aren’t familiar with the EqualLogic line of SANs from Dell, they recently announced some quite impressive changes for the PS6500 series of products. These new options include a PS6500E with 96 Terabytes of disk space in a 5U package, a PS6510E with the same capacity, the PS6500X and PS6510X [...]
Tags: Dell·EqualLogic·Fiber Channel·Managed Services·SAN·Servers·Storage·Virtualization
Dell Awarded the 2010 CRN Channel Champion: Network Storage Award
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Storage
CRN recently celebrated their 20th Channel Champion Award ceremony where the Vice President and General Manager of Dell Global Commercial Channels, Greg Davis, accepted the 2010 Network Storage Award during the XChange Solution Provider conference that was being held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. This award is regarded as the “people’s [...]
Tags: -1·2010 CRN Channel Champion·CRN·Dell·Enterprise Network Storage·Financial Performance·Hyatt Regency Century Plaza·Network Storage Award·Storage·Support Satisfaction·Technical Satisfaction·XChange Solution Provider
VMware Migration
March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Consolidation, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Dedicated Servers, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Routers, Security, Servers, Storage, Switches, VMware
Our Dallas Data Center team recently took over IT management for a customer who was experiencing poor VM performance in an environment which consisted of ESX 3.5 Enterprise with two hosts and an iSCSI SAN which was, for all practical purposes, homemade. The performance issues appeared to reside primarily in the SAN which only had [...]
Tags: 10Gb Interfaces·Business Continuity·Consolidation·Dallas Data Center·Data Centers·Database Performance·Dell EqualLogic PS610X iSCSI SAN·Dell PowerConnect 8024F 10Gb Switches·Dell PowerEdge R710·ESX 3.5 Enterprise·ESXi 4·High Disk Queue Lengths·I/O Capability·iSCSI SAN·IT Management·LAN·LUNs·Managed Hosting·Managed Services·NIC Ports·Palo Alto Networks PA-500 Firewalls·Poor VM Performance·Routers·Security·Servers·Single Gigabit Connections·Storage·Storage vMotion·Switches·vCenter·Virtual Machines·VM·vMotion·VMware·vSphere·Xeon Quad-Core Processors
Colocation Is The Perfect Hosting Solution
April 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Colocation, Disaster Recovery, Green IT, Managed Services, Virtualization
Tags: Backup·Budget·Business Continuity·catastrophic·colo·colo by the u·Colocation·Dallas Data Center·data backup·data center·data center security·data management·data security·Dedicated Servers·disaster·Disaster Recovery·green data center·Green IT·green ITgreen technology·iscsi·Managed Hosting·Managed Services·Management·north texas data centers·ROI·Storage·utility computing·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. [...]
Tags: Backup·catastrophic·colo·colo by the u·Colocation·Dedicated Servers·disaster·Disaster Recovery·failure·Host·Managed Hosting·Managed Services·Storage
Can you afford not to dedupe?
March 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Backup, Disaster Recovery, Storage
IDC recently did a study of IT administrators and found that over the last 3 years, data storage has grown to over a petabyte (1 million GB). The technology has pushed us to create larger files and email them everywhere and store them in multiple places. The problem with storage is that much of the [...]
Tags: dedupe·deduplication·ROI·Storage·TCO
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, [...]
Tags: Backup·deduplication·Storage
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 [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Disaster Recovery·iscsi·Storage