Come hear about one of the most exciting stories in the technology industry in Indiana on February 10, 2010 @ 11:30 by attending LightBound's lunch and learn. Go to www.lightbound.net to register. Scale Computing has been recognized as one of the top 20 technology companies to watch in 2010. Scale is headquartered out of Indianapolis. LightBound is a Scale Computing partner having deployed their solution for managed storage services for use with managed servers hosting or server collocation. The Scale solution is a very cost effective solution for local storage (3 TB for $14K). LightBound managed storage services can facilitate a data disaster recovery plan through a high speed WAN connection to provide off site data back service to yield a very effective business continuity plan in event of a disaster. Come learn about what we have to offer!
Data Disaster Recovery
Thursday, January 14, 2010 by
Brandon Ring
Availability means keeping IT resources continually accessible and
usable. One of the first questions management should ask is what level
of availability should the data center have. Should it be mission critical,
i.e., available uninterrupted all day and night, 365 days a year?
Does the company need its systems, data and applications to be
continuously accessible “24x7x365
usable. One of the first questions management should ask is what level
of availability should the data center have. Should it be mission critical,
i.e., available uninterrupted all day and night, 365 days a year?
Does the company need its systems, data and applications to be
continuously accessible “24x7x365
LightBound Holiday Schedule
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 by
Kate Rance
LightBound, an Indiana Internet Access company, offers server collocation, data disaster recovery, and managed servers.
Our Network Operations Center is manned 24x7x365.
Including this holiday season, and upcoming winter weather, we will be manned constantly.
Our Network Operations Center is manned 24x7x365.
Including this holiday season, and upcoming winter weather, we will be manned constantly.
LightBound rolls out its SAN
Thursday, November 19, 2009 by
Kate Rance
LightBound, an Indiana managed server host, has expanded its service offereings to include virtual servers, backups, and storgae via its new SAN.
A storage area network (SAN) is an architecture to attach remote computer storage devices (such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes) to servers in such a way that the devices appear as locally attached to the operating system. Although the cost and complexity of SANs are dropping, they are still uncommon outside larger enterprises. A System Area Network (SAN) is a high-performance, connection-oriented network that can link a cluster of computers.
LightBound can use this new technology to better serve its customers using a wide variety of data recovery, disaster recovery, business continuity, and sever collocation needs
LightBound adding third building for data center
Monday, November 16, 2009 by
Ron Pirau
LightBound will be adding a third data center for server collocation before the end of the year. This is a great site for data disaster recovery. The new site will be at 800 Oliver Ave, and is located just South of 731 W. Henry Street. This new data center is about 800 square feet and will have 26 cabinets. This data center is using some new designs and technologies. First it will be powered with a separate power feed and generator from the 731 W. Henry Street data center. So if customers want some redundancy this will be a good option. Flywheel UPS technology will be deployed. This technology has advantage of being less prone to problems due to not having to maintain batteries. Hot row containment cooling will also be used in this data center. Cabinets are configured so there are two rows of cabinets with the back facing each other and enclosed on both ends of the row and all above with heat venting out. There front of cabinets are facing out. This would be a great site for WAN consolidation due to access of carriers, 24 x 7 x 365 availability as well as having seasoned WAN engineers available to monitor and support.
LightBound offers Server Hosting
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 by
Kate Rance
LightBound, a managed server hosting company in Indiana, offers server collocation. LightBound's data center can house mail servers, manage servers, and provide business continuity and disaster recovery options to help your business run smoothly.
LightBound expanding to third building at Henry Street
Friday, October 16, 2009 by
Ron Pirau
LightBound will be expanding to a third building for server collocation in November. Customers who desire some redundancy in data centers can house equipment in separate buildings. The new building will be at 800 Oliver Street, one half block south of 731 W. Henry Street. It will be on a separate power service and generator from the building on 731 W. Henry Street.
LightBound also offers off site off site data backup service which can add a level of redundancy to your operation. Servers at the data center can be backed up and customers with circuits at T1 level or higher can have their server data backed up at their corporate locations. The backups are done over the network between data centers at the Henry Street complex to the administrative office at 2500 E. 46th Street.
If you are looking to improve disaster recovery and business continuity LightBound has the data centers and backup services to get the job done!
LightBound also offers off site off site data backup service which can add a level of redundancy to your operation. Servers at the data center can be backed up and customers with circuits at T1 level or higher can have their server data backed up at their corporate locations. The backups are done over the network between data centers at the Henry Street complex to the administrative office at 2500 E. 46th Street.
If you are looking to improve disaster recovery and business continuity LightBound has the data centers and backup services to get the job done!
Colocation for Business Continuity
Monday, October 12, 2009 by
Ron Pirau
Businesses have to plan for operating in event of a disruption in business operations at their main facilities. This planning is commonly referred to as business continuity. Since most business rely heavily on IT it would make sense to plan on having critical resources available over the Internet. Internet is highly available so employees can access when they are on the road traveling away from the office or working at home. To keep the business up and running it would pay off to have your critical information backed up using off site data backup service and using server collocation to have backup servers or primary servers This would surely help in data disaster recovery if the primary location was every effected by a power outage, damage of equipment, or theft. The data housed on equipment at the data center or back up service could be restored and get the business up and running at the main facility. LightBound can be a one stop shop for business continuity needs providing WAN, Indiana Server Hosting, and Internet Service Indiana.
LightBound Data Recovery and Disaster Recovery
Friday, October 9, 2009 by
Kate Rance
LightBound is Indiana's leading Data Recovery and Disaster Recovery businesses. We can offer off site data backup services over your current Internet service connection. Most business continuity plans today must have a disaster recovery plan. For daily backup needs LightBound can use tape backups or full server backups using Arkeia.
LightBound launches a facebook page
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 by
Kate Rance
In order for LightBound, Indiana's Largest Internet Service Provider, to become more widely known, we have launched our new facebook page. Please become a fan of LightBound. We invite you to join our discussion board where we will be posting topics on virtual hosting vs. colocation, VoIP phone systems, SIP lines,disaster recovery, business continutity, and many other subjects.
Why you should use Colocation and Data Back up
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 by
Brandon Ring
A data center is where you can transfer your hardware and see them in a proper environment and infrastructure for a nominal charge. Consider the situation when you might be housing a server room or any other heavy equipment in your office premises. Such a setup might need proper temperature and humidity levels, and at the same time, a dust free environment. While it may be possible for you to provide this for the equipment that you may be working with, it may require a considerable amount of time and attention, not forgetting the monetary requirements.
However, co-location can save a lot of space, money and your time and can help with relocating your PBX and also help with you data disaster recovery plan. Also we can take daily back up services off your plate. This can be used by small business as well as large business in Indiana and thought the US.
What is Colocation ?
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 by
Brandon Ring
Colocation is where servers are stored in a data center. The major difference is that instead of being leased, the servers are actually owned by the customers. Whereas a dedicated or managed host generally maintains the server, a colocation provider gives you access to the facility and allows you to manage your own hardware. The similarities include network connectivity, backup power sources and physical security. The greatest advantage of colocation is that it allows businesses to get the best of their servers who otherwise could not do so on their own. LightBound has one of Indiana's premier Data Centers and can also offer Data Disaster Recovery plans and Business Continuity advise..
Advantages:
Cost Saving
Higher Availability
Enhanced Security
Advantages:
Cost Saving
Higher Availability
Enhanced Security
Make sure your Internet Service Provider has redundancy
Thursday, June 4, 2009 by
Ron Pirau
If you're business relies on having high availability Internet service make sure that your Internet DSL Internet or High Speed Internet in Indiana provider has upstream redundant connections. Ask your Internet providers what business continuity and data disaster recovery plans they have to keep service running in event of upstream service interruption. There are many Internet providers that only have a single upstream connection to the Internet. There was a major outage in the area last week due to a fiber cut in a key communication line to an upstream Internet Provider in Chicago. This left many customers without Internet Service. Lightbound, which provides High Speed Internet in Indiana, has two 2.5 GB upstream connections, one to Herndon, Virginia and the other to Chicago. Even though the Chicago connection was cut there still was a full 2.5 GB connection to Virginia that provided Lightbound customers uninterrupted Internet Access Indiana. This is very important if you are using managed servers hosting or server collocation in a facility that needs always available High Speed Internet in Indiana.
Faster Connectivity and Higher Bandwidth to Internet and Data Center
Monday, May 4, 2009 by
Ron Pirau
The most common question that are customers are asking about today is higher bandwidth and faster connectivity for Internet Service Indiana or for companies to connect to Server Collocation in the data center. Many customers today have T1 circuits for Internet or Collocation and are pushing the circuits to the limits of their capacity. The cost of Ethernet circuits for 6 and 10 MB, and even 100 MB has decreased drastically compared to costs in the past. Customers are looking for the larger circuits as they are interested in moving their primary or backup servers to a high availability and highly secure data center that is staffed 24 x 7 x 365. They are also looking at disaster recovery and performing off site data back service. Customers are also moving to "cloud computing" applications such as Salesforce and need much larger bandwidth to handle the needs of increased Internet demand. An increase to an Ethernet circuit (typically at least 6 MB or above) versus a T1 circuit (1.5 MB) can result in a four fold increase in bandwidth. Customers can contract for Internet Service Indiana with a contracted Internet rate lower than the circuit bandwidth and get an advantage of bursting over the contracted rate on occasion without extra costs. Bursting is charged using what's known as 95th percentile billing which allows the customer to burst over contracted rate for 36 hours per month without additional charges. If you need High Speed Internet in Indiana contact us today to see how cost effective an Ethernet circuit can be to deliver your Internet or connect to our data center.
Optimize business continuity with data center high availability
Monday, April 20, 2009 by
Ron Pirau
For Data Recovery Indiana consider setting up a Managed Servers Hosting at Lightbound's data center. Many Small Business Server Hosting customers who are looking for business continuity are now setting up their backup or even their primary servers at the data center. Lightbound provides 24 x 7 x 365 managed support with a high availability data center with power, HVAC, and security round the clock. Customer's can consolidate their data and use our Off site Data Backup Service along with Server collocation to protect their servers. If they have a VOIP PBX solution they can move all their voice services to the data center as we are one of the few SIP Indiana VOIP providers. Additionally centralizing WAN communications at the data center can completely provide a robust solution to keep a business up an running through most any type of weather related incident. Look to Lightbound data center for the optimum in business continuity.
To control costs consider WAN consolidation in a data center
Friday, February 6, 2009 by
Ron Pirau
Companies that are looking for ways to cut costs in this economy should look at consolidating voice and data WAN circuits in a data center. The data center can now become the central hub for distributing services for Internet, Voice, and Data connectivity. Many data centers have a large number of carriers to choose from. Instead of using a single carrier the data center staff can help find the best value and cost for services by using multiple carriers. Instead of paying large fees to deliver the last mile of the circuit the customer essentially has the cost of cross connects at a fraction of the cost. In addition to costs savings business continuity can greatly improve because a data center generally has better redundancy for power, cooling, and security. Data disaster recovery can be enhanced by having servers at the data center that backups can be restored on or even mirrored production servers. Data centers typically have staff available 24 x 7 x 365 that can take care of issues when normal operations support staff are not available. In most cases problems are taken care of before a customer knows there is a problem! Small businesses can get the same type of support as large enterprises by using managed server hosting along with WAN consolidation. With cost saving and improved reliability it make sense to consider this option.
VOIP PBX Systems
Saturday, January 31, 2009 by
Jack Carr
Hi everyone,
As we continue to install VOIP PBX systems one of the interesting things that we have noticed is that many customers have purchased unlicensed VOIP Asterisk system. We have noticed there are no easy upgrade paths for these customers. What seems to be happening with these unlicensed system is that when a new version of the software comes out, the customers have to reinstall the desktop software. This means lots of maintenance issues for the customers that want to run the newest software versions, for new features the customers want.
So as you go to look for VOIP Service Providers and Indiana PBX providers make sure you understand how they are going to upgrade the system without you have to touch every desktop. Also make sure they have Off Site Data Backup Service for this system and a good Disaster Recovery plan.
Many of these providers are not CLEC's so they can't help you with disaster recovery options for your dial tone.
Just some food for thought.
Have a great day.
jack
As we continue to install VOIP PBX systems one of the interesting things that we have noticed is that many customers have purchased unlicensed VOIP Asterisk system. We have noticed there are no easy upgrade paths for these customers. What seems to be happening with these unlicensed system is that when a new version of the software comes out, the customers have to reinstall the desktop software. This means lots of maintenance issues for the customers that want to run the newest software versions, for new features the customers want.
So as you go to look for VOIP Service Providers and Indiana PBX providers make sure you understand how they are going to upgrade the system without you have to touch every desktop. Also make sure they have Off Site Data Backup Service for this system and a good Disaster Recovery plan.
Many of these providers are not CLEC's so they can't help you with disaster recovery options for your dial tone.
Just some food for thought.
Have a great day.
jack
Removing IP Bottleneck
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 by
Jack Carr
On a daily basis I spend lot's of days trying to removing the IP Bottleneck for clients. I bet you are wondering what the IP Bottleneck is. What we see on the daily basis is the need to get bigger IP pipes to our clients. Not only bigger pipes, but multiple paths and multiple applications across the same pipe. That is the real win for the us and the client.
One of the biggest education challenges is trying to show clients how to utilize the "BIG IP PIPE", basically get the most from their investment.
In this world of converging IP networks it takes lot of education to show clients that by fulling utilizing their IP connectivity they can reduce their overall IT budgets and get more bang for their buck.
Running voice, data, video, disaster recovery, across the same IP pipe is a good start.
Stay tune for more later.
jack
One of the biggest education challenges is trying to show clients how to utilize the "BIG IP PIPE", basically get the most from their investment.
In this world of converging IP networks it takes lot of education to show clients that by fulling utilizing their IP connectivity they can reduce their overall IT budgets and get more bang for their buck.
Running voice, data, video, disaster recovery, across the same IP pipe is a good start.
Stay tune for more later.
jack
Off Site Data Backup Service
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 by
Jack Carr
Almost every meeting I attend people talk about Off Site Data Backup Service. This service needs to be part of your Data Disaster Recovery Plan. Most customer need to add to their plan and put in a robust regular testing procedure to go along with their Off Site Data Backup Service. We have found that most people backup their data and some even backup their data off site, but never successfully try to recover from it.
If they are successfully with backup and restoring their data they don't consider how to restore their applications as well as their data. Making sure you have the complete solution for Off Site Data Backup Service is critical. There is so much more than just backup your data and recovery from it. This is a great step, but also having a devices(servers) to recover your data to is just as important. Also having a location(office or data center) to work out of and recover too is also important.
These are just a few things to think about when doing Off Site Data Backup Service.
Regards - jack carr
Lightbound
www.lightbound.com
If they are successfully with backup and restoring their data they don't consider how to restore their applications as well as their data. Making sure you have the complete solution for Off Site Data Backup Service is critical. There is so much more than just backup your data and recovery from it. This is a great step, but also having a devices(servers) to recover your data to is just as important. Also having a location(office or data center) to work out of and recover too is also important.
These are just a few things to think about when doing Off Site Data Backup Service.
Regards - jack carr
Lightbound
www.lightbound.com
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