Recovery Assurance (RA): Is Your Business Data 100% Recoverable?

Ever since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of Disaster Recovery (DR) has received unprecedented attention. Most businesses have realized the importance of bouncing back quickly from a disruptive event. In 2020, about 80% of SMBs reported having a recovery plan in place.1 But are you sure your business’ data is 100% recoverable? If you aren’t sure how …

Business Continuity Plan 101

If you want your business to remain competitive even during a business disruption, you need to self-reflect. What’s your plan against the unexpected? The truth is, numerous threats can halt your business operations at any time. If your employees cannot quickly pivot to ensure business continuity, you won’t just struggle with competition, but with survival. The simple solution is a …

Why to Adopt a Comprehensive Backup and BCDR Strategy

Being a business owner is challenging. You have to deal with multiple problems at once and effectively solve each of those. You also need to have the foresight to arm your business with the right tools and solutions to deal with any issues that might arise later. One such issue that you must always focus on is data loss/data corruption …

2021 Planning Starts Now

Put yourself in the driver’s seat – We can all agree that 2020 blew up a lot of strategic plans. The message appeared in giant skywriting from above – ‘humans make plans, and the universe laughs. Unfortunately for most of us, the laugh is usually uncontrollable, and it’s directly in our faces. So, does that mean that business owners should …

Where do we go from here?

It’s already clear that executives are moving full-speed-ahead from crisis mode surrounding COVID-19 events to refocusing on strategic objectives and planning for the future. Preparing now can help organizations maintain a resilient mindset and successfully navigate uncertainties that may lie ahead. But, when it comes to your IT department, what should your recovery playbook look like? How can you make …

Preparing for the unknown

One day we are all living our lives normally, and the next we are all suddenly living in confusion and uncertainty. There has been so much uncertainty and confusion surrounding COVID-19, and with local, state and national governments stating different information, it makes it hard to determine what exactly is going on, or how long our lives will be affected …

SD-WAN Implementation isn’t as easy as 1,2,3

When companies talk about digital transformation, the reality is that bringing mission-critical applications to the cloud isn’t a company’s end goal – it’s a means to an end. Businesses are looking to harness the full benefits of SaaS and cloud-based infrastructure to reduce costs and improve scalability, accessibility, and security. But getting there, however, requires re-thinking the one-time staple of …

Safeguard your IT Infrastructure with Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

There is a new reality facing businesses today: having inadequate Business Continuity strategy and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) plans in place, can cost you your business. Think about it: the 2017 hurricane season was the costliest on record with total losses as high as $200 billion. The damage from California’s wildfires totaled more than $180 billion. Many businesses in these situations …

Is SD-WAN for you?

Listen to what your business is telling you. With the deluge of cloud applications today – Office 365, Microsoft Azure, Unified Communications (UC) solutions, and much more – we’re asking a lot of our traditional networks. WANs are being pushed to their limits, carrying increasing amounts of data to and from multiple branch offices to mobile users, and to the corporate …