There are a lot of attractive cloud deals out there.

1¢ a gig here! Free Tier 1 services here!  Being that the cloud market is still a low tapped resource and relatively new for most businesses, it’s so easy to click “Buy Now”, enter the business credit card and take advantage of these great offers.  But when you look at the fine print, are these really great offers?

A 4 Step Guide for your Disaster Recovery plan

True Disaster Recovery is taking data from one site to another where it will be safe and separate from the event you encounter. There are many factors that separate a great DR plan from good one such as infrastructure, cloud provider, replication technology, cost, etc.  Though every business prioritizes their plan differently, this checklist is essential to make sure your DR plan is the best it can be for business continuity:

Zerto and Net3 Partner to Protect your Business

Hundreds of thousands of organizations around the world leverage virtualization technologies to deliver their IT services and applications on scalable and efficient platforms.  Regardless of the virtualization platform, the same key challenges of implementing a complete business continuity plan and disaster recovery strategy for virtualized applications remain.

Definition:

Insurance – the act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event. (Webster Dictionary)

We’re all used to buying insurance: home, car, life, and the list goes on.  In business, we insure our data with backups and disaster recovery against power outages, fires, hurricanes, and the employee that just happens to make a wrong click in the wrong spot.  We pay insurance for the event that we hope never happens, and when you think about it, it’s basically a sunk cost until you need it - praying you never do.  That brings up the question:

“It’s evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.” Craig Charles.

This quote by the famous British actor Craig Charles has never rung more true than in today’s business landscape. The battlefields are littered with so many examples where businesses refused to keep up and evolve. When is the last time you went to rent a movie at a Blockbuster, used a Blackberry device, mailed a letter at the Post Office, or even taken a taxi? It’s a Netflix, iPhone, Email, Uber kind of world out there. This same type of evolution is taking place in your datacenter whether you want to admit it or not.
Most people want to be out of the server business not because they have fallen out of love with their equipment, but because this model simply cannot keep up.