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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
Backups are essential. Without comprehensive data backups — your business is balanced on the edge of a cliff with the potential to fall at any moment. But backups aren’t enough to guarantee that a... more
It is impossible to build a successful eCommerce business on slow and unreliable infrastructure. Performance, redundancy, and scalability shape the shopping experience of every customer. Poor... more
Take a moment to think about how many of your business’s operations depend on the availability of its servers and applications. Many business owners and executives find it challenging to think of a... more
In the earliest days of the cloud, adoption was driven by startups and smaller businesses eager to access enterprise-grade infrastructure without making a large capital investment. Enterprise... more
Every three years or so, businesses with on-premises server deployments are faced with a decision. Do they embark on the usual server update cycle, with the capital outlay that implies, or do they... more
In the modern IT environment, security and privacy are of critical importance to cloud vendors and their clients. Security is a partnership in any infrastructure hosting scenario: both the vendor and... more