Business owners and IT managers spend an inordinate amount of time calculating levels of productivity, comparing those figures to previous fiscal periods, and determining ways to maximize profit when business is brisk. It’s only natural to focus on how to capitalize on the good times and hope for sustained growth. Unfortunately, too few businesses and […]
In the uncertain world of IT management there is no such thing as predictability. Safeguards can be instituted, protections put in place, and reasonable assurances can be made that data is secure. But as businesses have discovered since housing data on servers became commonplace, managers can never feel 100 percent complacent about their IT protections. […]
SANs were a great leap forward for reliable centralized data storage. Yet storing most of the company data on a single SAN presented challenges for IT managers, who feared that a catastrophic event such as a flood or fire might damage or destroy priceless stored data. Replication is the ideal solution to protect data against […]
Applications are the lifeblood of your business. Should a power failure or some unforeseen event occur that results in unplanned downtime, it can wreak havoc in the form of the lost priceless data. The ensuing costs to your company can be astronomical and might take years to recoup. Or your business may never recover. Before […]
For years businesses believed that adopting a business continuity and DR program was beyond their budget. Yet business owners and IT Directors need to ask themselves one simple question: “Can we afford NOT to have such a plan in place to protect our data?” Thanks to technological advances resulting in more efficient data protection, Disaster Recovery is […]
