Data growth has been exponential over the past few years; higher
bandwidth circuits and Off-Site Data Backup Service, Storage as a
Service, and Cloud Services has helped with this situation.
Much of the data growth has to do with database structures that
have been in use since the 1960's. See article, Big Data: Old Problem, New Urgency for a new
approach developed right here in Indiana.
I found an interesting article on the
PC being replaced by the cloud. There is quite a
bit of discussion on businesses moving to "the cloud".
How is this going to impact your business? There are
many factors and compliance with industry & government
regulations is a major one. Cloud services come in a mix of
offerings such as public, private, personal, and hybrid. A
major factor overlooked in Cloud services is performance of
Internet (latency) in getting to the services. We take
a...
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If you have IT resources spread out in multiple corporate
locations and data centers and are thinking about how to leverage
cloud services and server collocation to reduce complexity,
resources, and costs you may want to see the following article in
PC Advisor,
IT Pro rethinks infrastructure from the ground up, ends up in the
clouds. The article has a good overview of how a company
consolidated down from 10 to 4 data centers using server and
desktop virtualization. LightBound has went...
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If you have every been on public WiFi and doing business or
personal transactions that require security you may want to think
twice about doing it in the future. A lot of companies are
moving toward Cloud Services for business with their workforce
being mobile. They may want to set up some guidelines on
being careful as to what WIFI hotspots they are connecting
to. WISH TV recently did a story and Mark Clausman's
company, Sterlyn Group, http://www.sterlyn-group.com/,
provided some insight...
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If you are in the Indianapolis area and looking to rent a car from
one of the tops in customer satisfaction nationally you don't have
to look too far. Indianapolis based Ace Rent A Car,
http://www.acerentacar.com/, had some very good news about how they
fared in overall cusotmer satisfaction versus the major
players. See the news at
http://www.ibj.com/local-rental-car-firm-named-best-in-nation-in-jd-power-survey/PARAMS/article/30804.
Ace use LightBound's VoIP PBX Solutions to handle...
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I attended
Training, Inc.'s
"Success in the City" celebration the evening of November 15,
2011. This event was held in the newly
renovated
Indiana Landmarks Center at 12th & Central
in Indianapolis. If you are in the area it's definitely
worth a stop to see the beautiful restoration of this historic
building. It is also a great place to host a business
or personal event.
If you have not heard of Training, Inc. you really
need to check them out as well. This organization
helps individuals...
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If you are in the Indianapolis area and want the best service for
car rentals in the industry look no further than Ace Rent A
Car.
Ace
Rent A Car was recently name the tops in the industry for
customer satisfaction by J. D. Powers and Associates.
Ace offers rental services in over 200 locations and uses
LightBound VoIP PBX Solutions and Server Collocation to
provide the IT and Telecommunications systems to support the high
level of service for their customers. Congratulations to Ace
on a...
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LightBound has launched a new website, www.lightbound.net. Our new
tag line: "Extremely, exceedingly, overwhelmingly customer focused"
is really what sets us apart in the industry.
There new site features a section on Cloud Services, Virtualization
Services, VoIP PBX Solutions, and Scale Computing
SAN. The site has been designed to be more streamlined
and easier to navigate. The main page also features a
listing of our events, posts to our blog, and links to our
Facebook, Twitter, and...
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LightBound is an Indiana VoIP service provider and is also
a CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) providing
voice services to customer on premise PBX and Key systems
over T1 and Ethernet circuits. LightBound is one of the few
companies in the Indianapolis area that can provide SIP voice
transport which many of the newer VoIP PBX solutions in
use. We can also provide PRI or Analog voice service as well
using a voice gateway. If you are using LightBound
voice service we have the capability...
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If you
are a Small to Medium Enterprise business with growing data storage
needs look to Indiana based companies to help you out: LightBound
and Scale Computing both based out of Indianapolis, IN.
LightBound offers Server Collocation and Cloud Services and will be
opening up a 47,000 square foot state of the art data center at the
end of Q1 or early Q2 2011. LightBound offers Storage
as a Service with Scale Computing as the target platform for off
site data backup service. If a company has...
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The effects of the winter storm
have prevented me from coming into the office, but not from being
able to work productively. I work for LightBound and we are in
the business of providing voice, Internet, and data services no
matter what the weather conditions are. We provide server
collocation and cloud services from our data center for our
customers to have rock-solid availability around the clock for
their critical IT and voice systems. We drink our own
champagne so we run all of our services...
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Is your direct attached storage at capacity for your servers and
your are thinking about adding more storage or a NAS? Is the
maintenance for your current SAN up for renewal but budget is
limited? Are you at capacity for your current SAN but
don't have capital to acquire another SAN chassis? If you
answer yes to any of these question Scale Computing SAN is
something you need to look at. Scale Computing SAN is about
1/2 to 1/3 the price of competing SAN solution, is less complex...
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Do you currently have a SAN (Storage Area Network Solutions) from
one of the top tier providers? Is you maintenance contract
currently up for renewal? You may want to consider
comparing the cost of renewing maintenance on that SAN with
purchasing a new SAN from Scale Computing. A county
in Michigan recently went through this scenario when their
maintenance came up for renewal and in scrutinizing costs for
savings went the route of purchasing a Scale SAN. They were
able to save money and got...
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Learn about the next generation in storage. LightBound has
partnered with Scale Computing to offer their complete, end-to-end
midmarket storage solution. During this session, you will gain
insight into how you can reduce costs while increasing control over
your storage systems, as well as making the management of those
systems more convenient. Learn more about the Scale 3-C's - COST -
CONTROL - CONVENIENCE. Customers are able to build out storage
clusters, starting with just 3 useable terabytes...
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LightBound now has a direct fiber connection to the Chase Tower in
downtown Indianapolis. The direct fiber connectivy
enables tenants in the building to take advantage of LightBound's
suite of services such as hosted virtual server, cloud services,
hosted VoIP PBX Solutions, virtual storage, and off site data
backup service. Customers can connect to the fiber for
$995 per month which provides a 100 MB connection to the data
center bundled with 10 MB of Internet with bursting
capability....
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LightBound is an Indiana VoIP provider that is now offering a
complete hosted VoIP service service. If you are looking for
VoIP PBX Solutions and don't want to invest a lot of up front
capital this is the service that you have been looking for. A
hosted VoIP service is a great part of a Business Continuity
solution that can help keep your business up and running in the
event of business disruption at your office. The LightBound
hosted voice fits directly inthe Cloud Services model that...
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I just read a great article about Cloud Services. Check
out this
link. LightBound is
a Hosted Virtual Server provider offering custom cloud
services. What do I mean about in reference to custom cloud
services. LightBound's cloud service offering has
controls for security to meet government and industry compliance
that many others don't offer. If you are looking for some
more details on Virtualization Services that LightBound offers come
to our Lunch and Learn on April 14, 2010 to find...
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Are you overburdened with IT and telecom responsibilities and don't
have enough time to take care of applications that give your
business a competitive edge? Do you currently have to manage
the PBX, firewall, conference bridge, fax server, call center, and
unified message on top of all the various business applications
servers? Are these services that your company sells of offers
as a service to your customer base? If not you should
consider going with hosted VoIP PBX Solutions and SIP...
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Today's tough economic times are causing many businesses to look at
ways to reduce costs and improve productivity to gain a competitive
edge. Some of the newer VoIP PBX Solutions provide both the
ability to reduce overall costs and improve business productivity.
If you have an older phone system that is paid off there may be
some reluctance in looking at new VoIP PBX solutions due to
tight capital constraints. If you have costs for annual maintenance
and moves/adds/changes on your existing phone...
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If you have a Compellent or Scale SAN and desire to replicate for
business continuity or data disaster recover LightBound offers
Storage as a Service to meet your needs.
LightBound can be the one stop shop to accommodate as we have
Indiana WAN services with multiple carriers to provide a large
circuit directly from your office to our data center to provide
backup needs. A large circuit is generally needed as 100 GB
takes 2.2 hours to replicate your SAN. If you have a
SAN with another...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
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