Server Collocation

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!

High Performance Business Internet - Look to LightBound!

Friday, January 22, 2010 by Ron Pirau

Are you looking for High Speed Internet in Indiana for your Server Collocation and Managed Servers Hosting? LightBound can take care of this for your business. Our Internet is not like the DSL or Cable Internet offering that you get at your home. We have a 24 x 7 x 365 data center NOC staffed around the clock. We are a top tier business Internet provider with direct links to the NAP in Chicago and Ashburn, VA with direct peering connection with Equinix packet exchange. Through this the server is one hop away from Internal networks at Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and hundreds of others. We have two 2.5GB connections to the NAP, and each connection has two 1 GB upstream (for redundancy) to top Internet carriers. Our 2.5 GB connection to Chicago is also redundant with a diverse path. We have very large customers with high availability requirements so we have architected this network for premium service. That being said our pricing is not the cheapest, but we deliver the best value for your business, especially is your rely on High Speed Internet in Indiana.

LightBound State of the Art Data Center

Friday, December 18, 2009 by Kate Rance

LightBound, an Indiana server collocation provider offers a unique solution to your business continuity needs. In our data center we can supply mail server hosting, high speed Internet, and off site data backup service, along with many other services.

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 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 Server Colocation

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 by Kate Rance

LightBound's server colocation stands out among the crowd.
Our server collocation service includes: Individually locking cabinets, redundant power feeds, business grade service level agreement, 1500kW diesel generator, FM200 fire suppression, onsite monitoring, 24/7/365, real time utility for viewing usage statistics, DHS designated site, biometric access, and closed circuit surveillance

LightBound, Indiana Server Colocation

Friday, October 30, 2009 by Kate Rance

I met with a prospective client this week who was interested in colocation at our data center. His current povider is also his IP address provider. Unfitunately he has hard-coded his IP address with his customers VPN and is unable to change them. We offered a solution of housing his colocation servers in our data center and simply connecting to his existing carrier in our telcommuncations room. With this option he is able to keep his current IP addresses and lower is colocation costs.

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!

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.

Fonality will be at Customer Appreciation event on June 17

Monday, June 15, 2009 by Ron Pirau

Lightbound will be having a customer appreciation event on June 17, 11:30 at our Lightbound data center on 731 West Henry Street. Fonality, one of the leading SMB VoIP PBX Solutions provider will be at the event presenting. Lightbound is one of the few VoIP Service Providers in the area that can directly supply SIP to Fonality's trixbox server. We will also be providing tours of our data center at this event. Lightbound's data center is a great solution for business continuity and server collocation that can be used with the Fonality solution.

VoIP services to existing PBX and Phone systems delivers reliability and cost savings

Thursday, June 11, 2009 by Ron Pirau

If you are in need of an Indiana VoIP provider Lightbound can deliver the voice services you need. We are one of the few commercial grade VOIP Service Providers that delivers our services solely over dedicated private circuits. This is a critical point in delivering business quality VoIP services. There are many VOIP service providers that will deliver their services over the open Internet at a very low cost. The problem is that the service does not work reliably. Sometimes it will work great. Other times its worse that a bad cell phone call. Reliability of your VoIP phone solution can be enhanced in a few ways. First you can host your VoIP PBX Solutions our data center for server collocation which is the location of our voice switch. No need to work about problems with circuit connections to your office. If your circuit does go down the calls can be rerouted by calling our NOC and giving alternate numbers to call. Cost savings can result by purchasing only the exact number of lines needed. Instead of having to purchase a PRI with 23 lines, your can purchase only 15 lines if that is what your business needs. Look at Lightbound for VoIP PBX Solutions if your want to increase reliability and save costs for your company.

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.

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.