Cloud computing has been the buzz in the IT industry as of recent. The benefit of cloud computing is cost savings by not having to make investment in capital IT resources. You purchase on demand the the unused capacity of another companies computing power. If you are using cloud computing for applications that your information workers use on a daily basis they key to performance is a high quality Internet connection. Many companies buy Internet purely as a commodity and look at it on a price for MB basis. All Internet access is not created equal. You need to consider who is you Internet provider using for upstream connections. How large are the upstream connections. Do they have redundant upstream providers. If you have a Internet Service Provider who provides a 10 MB connection to a business, but they only has a DS3 (45 MB) connection that is shared among 100 or more businesses you are not going to get very good service. In order to get peak performance for cloud computing check into the details of what you Internet Service Provider has behind the scenes. For top quality Internet Service Indiana, Internet Access Indiana, Indiana DSL Internet, and High Speed Internet in Indiana look to Lightbound to provide you top quality high performing service.
Winter and Business Continuity plans
Thursday, January 29, 2009 by
Ron Pirau
The recent winter weather resulted in thousands of people being without power and probably effected hundred of businesses. As a result there was a great deal of lost revenue from closed businesses and lost productivity due to workers not being able to get to work. In order to minimize the lost revenue and productivity a business should have a business continuity plan to address situations. A few key strategies to keep the business running is to host critical IT and Voice systems at a data center with server collocation. When power goes down at the main office the critical systems are up and running. Remote workers can get to the systems with Indiana DSL Internet and a VPN connection. VoIP PBX solutions housed at the data center could take incoming calls and route to cell or home phones of home workers. If workers are in areas that don't have power or phone service at the very least messages are going to voice mail. I was able to work from a home office yesterday and was fully productive as I could get phone calls from customer and access all business IT systems remote to conduct my daily business. My productivity may have been down after 2 hours of snow shoveling, but I was at least able to do all the normal activities I do at the office.
Why 24 x 7 Business Continuity is needed in todays economy
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 by
Ron Pirau
How many businesses in Central Indiana can afford to maintain a staff 24x7x365 to support their IT systems? How many businesses need 24x7x365 to remain competitive in today's always business environment? All of them! In order to do so many businesses are migrating to an environment that provides business continuity 24 x 7 in order to accomplish this. Moving critical applications to managed servers hosting environment or server collocation in an Indiana Server Hosting Data Center can accomplish this. A data center that has 24x7 network operations center staff can provide data disaster recover in the event an issue happens with one of the servers. In additional moving to a VoIP PBX and locating in the data center using voice services from a VoIP service provide can bring an extra level of business continuity. This type of service is not only for large Enterprise customers. Small Business server hosting can also be done quite cost effectively. WAN consolidation can also provide enhanced business continuity by centralizing in a data center where business applications reside. WAN consolidation also provides considerable cost savings in many cases. The only way this will work for companies is by using high speed Internet in Indiana. Providers of Indiana DSL Internet, Ethernet or T1 Internet can provide this high speed Internet Connectivity. The data center and managed services can provide round the clock support in a highly available and reliable facility at a fraction of the cost of employee staff to perform the IT support functions. To keep businesses running 24x7 this should be a key part of a successful business strategy.
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