A Customer Feature: How LightBound Covers Reliability, Scalability, and Excellent Customer Service

By: Wednesday, July 11, 2012

No matter the size of your company or the extent of your business data needs, finding a data center facility to serve you throughout several changing growth stages, while maintaining a constant workflow and solid infrastructure, can be a difficult feat. The goal is to find a facility that allows flexibility and scalability to grow with your business demands, as well as provides outstanding customer service to continuously manage the back-end of all your IT needs.

We wanted to share an experience...

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NEWS RELEASE- Bryan Reinhart Joins LightBound as Director of Sales

By: Monday, July 2, 2012

You may have seen in today's Inside Indiana Business e-newsletter, but we are growing by the minute! The following is the information from the latest news release on our new hire, Bryan Reinhart, to the LightBound team. Welcome, Bryan!

INDIANAPOLIS- LightBound is thrilled to announce the latest addition, Bryan Reinhart, to the staff as Director of Sales. Reinhart will be working closely with our account managers to monitor sales strategies and accounts, as well as work with the Operations...

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Winter Storm Warnings and Your Business Functionality

By: Wednesday, December 28, 2011
It's that time of year again where winter is upon us, and the chances of severe snow and ice storms are a high probability. Planning for these types of conditions within your business aren't always a priority, but if there is bad weather, would you be able to access any resources from home or be able to manage the outcome of a power outage that causes access to critical servers in the office? 

Natural disasters do happen to businesses and it's important to be prepared. In cases of bad weather,...Read More »

Register For the LightBound-Scale Computing Lunch and Learn

By: Monday, November 28, 2011
 LightBound will be hosting a Lunch and Learn with our partner, Scale Computing, on Wednesday, December 7 at 11:30a-1:00p. Lunch will be provided while you learn about several types of storage solutions, disaster recovery, virtualization, and shared storage solutions to help your business. Also, Scale Computing will be introducing a new M-series storage nodes that offer additional hardware choices to maxamize performance. 

For more information or to register for the event, click here.

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Consider Moving Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery to the Cloud

By: Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Cost

Imagine for a moment that DR in the cloud is similar to the way you work with your residential electric company. You pay a small monthly fee for connecting your home to the utility, and then you pay for actual power usage. If you don’t draw any electricity, the small monthly fee remains; if you turn on your pool pump and your refrigerator and your lights, costs are added incrementally as you use increasingly more power. That’s a vastly different model than the way outsourced DR services have...

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Reasons to consider Desktop Virtualization

By: Tuesday, October 18, 2011

 

The rise of mobility

The employee ecosystem is evolving, with more organizations looking beyond “task” workers to highly mobile, remote and information-focused workers. Fifty-one percent of firms said that they are planning to deploy application/desktop virtualization for mobile workers, and the same percent also plan to deploy it for remote/branch office workers. The now-constant need for connectivity during travel, or for telecommuting employees, has led businesses to provide support for all...

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LightBound VoIP PBX Systems

By: Tuesday, August 9, 2011
VoIP Phone Systems

With consumer companies such as Skype and Vonage, VoIP is all the buzz these days. What is VoIP? VoIP stands for “Voice over Internet Protocol,” and in its simplest form means you can make telephone calls using your Internet connection. This has the obvious benefits of saving money on phone service, but also offers additional benefits to businesses that use VoIP-enabled phone systems.
VoIP Phone Systems Reduce Phone Bills

The primary benefit of a VoIP Phone System is the...Read More »

How to Conduct Better Meetings

By: Monday, July 18, 2011

1. Inform and remind team of purpose just before meeting

By informing attendees just before they are not only less likely to forget it but they will also come with any material or information needed to support the discussion topics.

2. Minimize participants

Invite only those who are truly needed. As the number of participants goes up so does the tendency to get bogged down. Often, those who are not needed will show up to obtain any information resulting from the meeting.

3. Establish and follow...

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Seven Leadership Skills CIOs Need to Drive Results

By: Friday, July 15, 2011

1.      Commit to leadership first and everything else second

Gartner and Korn/Ferry’s research reveals that the highest performing CIOs are effective because they embrace the idea that everything they need to accomplish will be achieved through people, by people, and with people. They don’t pay lip service to that idea. They live it. They lead.

2.      Lead differently than you think

A high-performing CIO is an incredibly complex and creative thinker. Yet when the time comes to lead, they don’t rely...

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Using your iPad at work

By: Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Give Presentations

Tired of lugging your bulky laptop around just to give presentations? With the VGA Adapter and supporting software, business users can make use of the much more portable iPad for this task. A number of software supports the VGA Adapter, such as the free Presentation App, or Apple's own Keynote. Getting the presentation onto the iPad will probably require the requisite files to be synced in advance, though some of the presentation software supports alternative means of moving...

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Protecting Desktops

By: Monday, July 11, 2011

Business Challenge

Many enterprises today have data living on the edge. Mission-critical data is created and stored on individual laptops and workstations, far outside the reach of traditional data center-centric approaches to backup and recovery.

This presents a challenge not only for data protection but also for long term data retention, and for eDiscovery requests. Current approaches can impose onerous demands on users and their systems, overwhelm network bandwidth and still do not deliver fast...

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Backup as a service

By: Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Data Backup and Recovery

LightBound’s backup service is an exclusive single-platform architecture which delivers what you really need: reliable data protection, multiple recovery options and sophisticated data retention capabilities, allowing maximum return on investment. The LightBound Backup and Recovery solution is designed for fast, easy deployment within your existing infrastructure.

 

Backup and recovery is usually about maximizing Returns on Investment. It is a fine balancing act...

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Backup and Archive with LightBound

By: Thursday, June 9, 2011

The LightBound Backup and archive solution meets these challenges head-on with a robust and common content archive interface approach. Its interface integrates with a range of data sources using HTTP/REST based environments to intelligently collect data, simplify management, and reduce the costs of data retention. Most requirements for enhanced security, encryption and compliance are exceeded.

  • Unify Data Retention – Reduce complexity with a single platform featuring encryption, compression,...
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Don't forget BC/DR 101: Basics of preparing for business disruption April 27th

By: Friday, April 22, 2011

BC/DR 101: Basics of preparing for business disruption

WebinarLunch & Learn

4/27/2011
11:30am-1:00pm
LightBound Data Center 731 W. Henry Street Indianapolis, IN 46225
(317) 777-7165
events@lightbound.net

Summary

LightBound Business Continuity

Description

Is your business prepared for the next ice storm or natural disaster?  LightBound’s next lunch and learn will revolve around Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning...

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Premise-based vs Hosted VoIP vs Hybrid-Hosted: Which business phone solution is right for you?

By: Wednesday, April 13, 2011
COMPARING IP BASED BUSINESS PHONE SOLUTIONS

For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) looking to not just survive but thrive during the downturn, an IP phone system may be just the answer. It will give them communication capabilities previously available to only the largest companies. It will let them work in ways that they would have found impossible before. It will help them accomplish more with fewer resources. And it can save them considerable money.

But even if a company is more than...

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What is Virtualization?

By: Tuesday, March 8, 2011

In simple terms, virtualization adds a layer in between the physical hardware and the operating system. This in turn encapsulates the entire system, making it a virtual machine (VM) where hardware becomes agnostic and creates it its own “bubble”. This environment allows you to have multiple VMs running on the same physical hardware without conflict.

 

Portability is a benefit of this technology. Any VM can be transferred to other physical machines easily. This ease of portability can come into...

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Business Continuity Voicemail for your business

By: Thursday, February 17, 2011
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...Read More »

Snow and Ice

By: Friday, February 11, 2011
I am writing from home today, but I am still connected to the office. I have my Droid X for email and calendar. I have VPN'ed into our network so I can access all my files and outlook. I can take work phone calls with find me follow me.  Weather is not a concern. Does your company have the ability for your staff to work remotely? If not, give us a call on we can talk about Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

Please click here to see a Youtube video on Fonality for...Read More »

Why Hosted IP Phone System?

By: Monday, December 20, 2010
1.) "We can focus on our core business." Smart companies focus on growing their business and don't have time to manage complicated IP PBXs.

2.) "IP PBXs can be hard to manage." Implementing the same phone system hundreds of times has taught hosted vendors  how to avoid pitfalls of deploying VoIP. Companies also save time and resources because hosted providers use proactive and reactive monitoring systems to resolve problems faster than an in-house solution.

3.) "Our phone system is a service, not...Read More »

One Neck to Choke

By: Wednesday, November 24, 2010
In this day and age where everyone depends so heavily on Technology. Isn't good to have one company that can provide ITManaged Services, Server Collocation, Web Hosting Services, Virtual Storage, Storage as a Services, VoIP PBX Solutions, Hosted VoIP PBX  Solutions, Voice Services and Data Services.

LightBound can provide your Cloud Services, Data Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity to your Voice and Data services including Off Site Data Backup Services.

Light Bound can be your Virtual...Read More »