With cloud computing gaining more ground in the SMB market, the constant still remains that small to medium businesses face different challenges than large enterprises.  Per Gartner, “due to its size, small to medium size businesses have different IT requirements — and often faces different IT challenges — than do large enterprises.  IT resources (usually budget and staff) are often highly constrained.”  This is where Boutique Cloud Providers (BCPs), like Net3 Technology, can really step in and be a great ally to an SMB. 

With the new year, it’s common to re-evaluate current business processes and technologies.   We are talking to more and more companies that are thinking about moving to the cloud and we know it can potentially be a big move.  Businesses need the right technology, the right migration path, the right execution and support for successful implementation and use. In addition, business owners are also looking at the cost  - which always poses the question:

Is moving to the cloud the right move financially?

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*.

As a CSP, we speak daily about disaster recovery and over the years we have seen many definitions to what Disaster Recovery means to different people.  Not every business is going to need to recover the same way, but Net3 has universal steps and actions that can be taken to better prepare for a DR event.   In the past, we have given a 4 step guide for your DR plan, but let’s dig deeper into was it really means to be prepared.   

First and foremost, when it comes to backups and disaster recovery– we always recommend the 3-2-1 rule.  Whatever may happen: ransomware, disaster, equipment craps out, etc. – a copy of company data should be off site.  This means either building or renting a duplicate datacenter at a different location, OR utilizing the cloud.