LightBound Managed Services offers Scale to Scale Replication and Compellent to Compellent Replication

Monday, September 13, 2010 by Jay Cutler
LightBound Managed Services offers Scale to Scale Replication and Compellent to Compellent Replication.

What does this mean?  Companies can now easily replicate their Storage Area Network Solutions (SANs) back to Indiana Premier Data Center and Managed Storage provider LightBound. 

Let one of LightBounds Sales professionals show you how to increase your Business Continuity and Disaster recovery plans with our SAN to SAN replication. Regardless if you are using a High Speed Compellent SAN for your transaction heavy data bases and applications or if you need normal speed drives for doing Archival or Business Continuity.

Even if you don't have a Compellent or Scale SAN you can still use LightBound's Managed Storage solutions for your business continuity or disaster recovery with LightBound incredible reach of huge bandwidth for Off Site Data Backup Service. We can provide many Cloud Services and Share Storage Solutions.

Light Bound can be your Virtual Service Provider. We help you answer that email and return the telephone call without worry.

LightBound is your Fonality Authorized Reseller for trixBox Pro Editions for VoIP PBX solutions both hosted and premise based IP Based Telephony with Enterprise, Call Center and UAE (SalesForce and SugarCRM integration) editions.

LightBound, your Virtual Service provider, can combine your managed servers hosting, Shared Storage server, voice and data services to provide you with a seamless Cloud Service that is economical and provides the business continuity that all businesses require regardless of their technical expertise.

LightBound is also expanding. Be on the lookout for our new state of the art 47,000 sq ft. Data Center coming out of the ground and available for occupancy in first or second quarter of 2011.

www.lightbound.net



Hear about an Indiana Technology Sucess Story, Scale Computing, February 10, 2010 @ 11:30

Friday, February 5, 2010 by Ron Pirau
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!

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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