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The Steadfast blog is where our highly technical management team and engineers will offer expert, practical advice for the IT Infrastructure industry. Keep an eye out for additional special events!

Disaster Recovery: How to Survive Ransomware Strikes

08/05/2022

| Disaster Recovery, backup, cloud backup, cloud services, colocation, Dedicated Servers, Data Center, ransomware, cybersecurity

Learn how you can reduce the impact of a ransomware attack on your business with these top tips in our Disaster Recovery: How to Survive Ransomware Strikes infographic. Learn more... more

Top Reasons to Choose Data Center Colocation in Chicago – Part 3: Infographic

03/30/2022

| colocation, Chicago colocation, colocation services, cloud services, bare metal, Dedicated Servers, Data Center

In the United States, Chicago continues to hold a top position in the data center market. The city has several key advantages that have contributed to its Top 5 status. It has proven itself as a... more

(Almost) Everything You Need to Know About RAID

By: Edward Dryer

05/26/2020

| Dedicated Servers

Steadfast has been providing dedicated servers with RAID configurations for at least a decade, and while RAID is a widely used technology, how it is implemented has changed a great deal with the... more

Server Security: Are You Confident Your Business's Critical Infrastructure Is Secure?

By: Karl Zimmerman

12/06/2017

| Dedicated Servers

By any measure, 2017 has been a disaster for enterprise security. The industry lurched from devastating ransomware attacks to catastrophic data leaks. It’s no wonder consumer trust is at an all time... more

Cloud Hosting vs Dedicated Servers: Choosing The Right Infrastructure

By: Karl Zimmerman

04/26/2017

| Cloud, Dedicated Servers

The range of hosting options available to today’s businesses is bewildering — not to mention the ever-multiplying terminology conjured up by marketing departments. In this article, I’m going to... more

Bare Metal or Cloud: Choosing The Right Infrastructure Hosting For An Early-Stage Startup

By: Karl Zimmerman

11/23/2016

| Cloud, Dedicated Servers

Startup founders have no end of infrastructure hosting choices. Making the wrong choice can limit agility, increase costs, and put a brake on growth. Technological debt applies to infrastructure too... more

Bare Metal Dedicated Servers Should Be On The Table For Big Data Infrastructure Deployments

07/06/2016

| Dedicated Servers

In the mind of many, big data is intrinsically tied to the cloud. In fact, big data has often been touted as the cloud’s killer app. Big data is, quite obviously, big — involving enormous velocity... more

Data Capacity Planning: Knowing the Basics

10/31/2013

| The Cloud, Dedicated Servers, Business Talk

When it comes to controlling costs and increasing efficiency in large data centers, upper-level IT executives are usually on the look out for newer and better ways to manage their resources. In... more

Now available: Samsung 830 SSDs!

03/22/2012

| Dedicated Servers

We're happy to announce the availability of new Samsung 830 Solid State Drives!The new Samsung 830 SSDs are SATA3 powerhouses of performance and reliability, twice as fast than our previous ... more

New NetApp SAN

By: Karl Zimmerman

03/14/2011

| Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery

We've got our brand new NetApp SAN in place and have been putting it through it's paces. Overall, it will allow us to offer high speed (15k RPM SAS drives + 1TB of solid state cache) and high... more

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