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.
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...
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 »
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.
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...
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...
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 »
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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.
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...
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 »
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 »
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 »
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.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Lunch
& Learn
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