The 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season is expected to be an above-average hurricane season, according to the NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. The mid-season update contained 15-20 named storms, 7-10 hurricanes, and 3-5 major hurricanes. National Weather Service Director, Louis W. Uccellini, stated, "Now is the time for families and communities to ensure their preparations are in place. These storms can be devastating, so be prepared for all possible outcomes.
Data is the lifeblood of a business and it’s up to IT Departments to keep it accessible and protected. With the ever-changing landscape networks, storage growth, the current (and intense) focus on security, and more professionals working from home - there are many challenges that IT professionals can face.
Below you can find common backup challenges and Net3's solution to overcoming them.
Since data is the lifeblood of every business, companies are constantly figuring out how to best back up their data. Backups are a company’s insurance policy for data loss. But when it comes to recovery, traditional backups can pose an issue: data gaps.
Technology is not immune to false promises and there may be no better example than the faith companies put into their Disaster Recovery plans. The issue with this false promise begins in the very term, Disaster Recovery: not all disasters are equal and not everyone defines what recovery means the same way. It would be impossible to recount the number of times we have walked into a business that was confident in their untested, untried, and untrue plan to recover from a disaster. Many people also tend to think of disasters as Acts of God – floods, fires, earthquakes, or other weather related events – when a corrupted database or internal sabotage can be just as damaging as natural disasters, if not more so. For the purposes of this narrative, a disaster is anything that would cause complete interruption of business, and recovery will be defined as the ability to get your business back up and running.
A fun post for Halloween..enjoy!
“You know it’s Halloween…. everyone’s entitled to one good scare, eh?” This is exactly what businesses don’t want to hear when referencing their datacenter. To spare our customer from reliving this horror, names have been changed to protect their identities*.
