Disaster Recovery and Business continuity in the Cloud
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...
View ArticleDon’t spend hours speccing out an alternative, move to the cloud!
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...
View ArticleHot site protection on the cheap
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...
View ArticleCloud Hosting Flexibility: A Key Advantage for Disaster Recovery Solutions
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...
View ArticleImportance of Security in a Data Center
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...
View ArticleAligning Your Security Goals for MySQL with a Cloud Encryption Solution
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...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy and its Effect on New York Data Centers
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...
View ArticleAtlantic.Net offers Free Cloud Services to Those Affected by Data Center...
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...
View ArticleA Few Questions to Ask Your Cloud Hosting Provider
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...
View ArticleRelease the Google Internet Balloons!
Type in the word “Internet” in Google Plus Search and you’ll be in for a surprise. The topic going viral at the moment is Google’s balloon project called Loon. In fact, Trey Ratcliff did a long post in...
View ArticleRelease the Google Internet Balloons!
Type in the word “Internet” in Google Plus Search and you’ll be in for a surprise. The topic going viral at the moment is Google’s balloon project called Loon. In fact, Trey Ratcliff did a long post in...
View ArticleWhat is a WAF (Web Application Firewall)?
Firewalls come in essentially three varieties: hardware firewalls, software firewalls, and web application firewalls (WAFs). Typically a hosting company or datacenter infrastructure will take...
View ArticleAre You Considering Colocation? Ask Prospective Data Centers These 9...
When you look into colocation, what you need to know to find the right data center is a more limited list than with web hosting because you are providing all the equipment yourself. However, a number...
View ArticleAtlantic.Net offers Free Cloud Services to Those Affected by Data Center Issues
Atlantic.Net offers relief to businesses affected by data center outages due to Hurricane Sandy. Orlando, FL – November 3, 2012 – Atlantic.Net (https://www.atlantic.net/), a privately-held leading...
View Article