Category Archives: Disaster Recovery

Whether you are in charge of the IT department for a large enterprise or running a small business, any change in technology requires research and planning in order to ensure you are making the right decision for your business. Below … Continue reading

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Atlantic.Net offers relief to businesses affected by data center outages due to Hurricane Sandy. Atlantic.Net (http://www.atlantic.net/), a privately-held leading hosting solutions provider announced today that they will be offering relief to those affected by the Northeastern US data center outages … Continue reading

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As Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast coast on Monday, several major websites including the Huffington Post, Gawker, and Buzzfeed struggled to stay online due to the flooding of a major data center in lower Manhattan. Datagram, an Internet Service Provider … Continue reading

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Before integrating a security solution for your MySQL database, it is essential to understand what your goals are for information security and how they relate to it.  The underlying goals of any information security solution are most likely: Confidentiality – … Continue reading

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Unsurprisingly, data security is the key concern for the vast majority of businesses, and for good reason.  A business choosing a data center is likely doing so because their information is vital and needs to be secure.  The company may … Continue reading

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We all know that cloud-based computing solutions offer tremendous flexibility – not only can you set up, change or decommission servers in a matter of minutes, but additional managed hosting features are readily available, and the costs are much more … Continue reading

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In years gone by, fully redundant “hot site” colocation was seen as the gold standard for robust disaster recovery protection.  Having a geographically distinct site with redundant data storage and functionality was certainly good insurance against nearly any imaginable disaster, … Continue reading

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Cloud-based services mean instant, location-independent redundancy. Maintaining location independence is critical to robustness in the face of disaster. The worst thing possible for your business is to be caught in a local disaster that wipes out not only the business … Continue reading

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Business continuity is the measure of successful disaster recovery. Disasters can be measured in many ways. Some of these are obvious: lives lost, dollars cost, property destroyed, time spent rebuilding. But from a business perspective, the key factor is business … Continue reading

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Cloud hosting makes for easier recovery after any type of accident Disaster recovery is all about trade-offs: you need to find a cost-effective solution that is always active and makes it as easy as possible to recover your data and … Continue reading

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