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Servers fail. It’s a question of when, not if — recent data shows that in their first year of service, 5 percent of servers fail. By year four, this jumps to 11 percent. Year seven? Almost 20 percent... more
The cloud is everywhere. Recent data suggests that companies will spend more than $52 billion on cloud infrastructure alone this year, with cloud services spending to reach $180 billion.For... more
Businesses store data for many reasons, the most prominent of which are production use, as backups, and as archives. Once upon a time, storage was expensive and it made sense to store as little as... more
Disaster recovery was once the preserve of corporations that could afford to run redundant infrastructure in several data centers. Today, cloud backup systems and virtualization allow smaller... more
In previous articles on this blog, we have stressed the importance of disaster recovery planning. However diligently IT professionals try to avoid outages and account for potential failures, without... more
How quickly would your business recover from an incident that deprived it of access to critical hardware or software? In the event of an incident, how many of the business’s operations could continue... more
An important benefit of the cloud is reducing the complexity of managing physical servers and networks. All of that is handled by us. You, as a client, access powerful compute and storage without... more
Human error is the leading cause of business data loss. Not sophisticated security breaches, hardware failures, or data corruption, but mistakes made by employees in the course of their work. ... more
Data that is only stored in one place is in a precarious position. Hard disk drives fail unpredictably. Solid state drives are more reliable, but even less predictable and it may not obvious when... more
The benefits of Disaster Recovery are undeniable. Infrastructure and network outages are a fact of life. Disaster Recovery provides a powerful solution: replicate infrastructure in an offsite data... more