Best Practices for Business Continuity
A company’s ability to avoid downtime and power outages in the face of natural disasters, international or domestic terror threats and large scale theft or security threats is the backbone of their survival. As demonstrated during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy storm, relying on human power and remote server backup systems is not enough for business continuity […]
Understanding Managed Hosting and How It Can Help Your Business
Managed hosting refers to the IT provisional mode in which a provider company leases servers and associated applications and hardware to a client. The providing company houses and manages all equipment. The client may or may not have administrative access to these servers and applications but rarely utilizes this access. In most cases, a web-based […]
The Differences Between Disaster Recovery From Cold, Warm and Hot Recovery Sites
A thorough, effective, redundant and complex disaster recovery service is vital for the continuity of any business. Today’s world is full of both man-made and natural disaster threats to data security. With the increase in the use of data centers and colocation services, disaster recovery services have become a hot topic in the IT world […]
Mission Critical Data Storage for Small Businesses: How Managed Backup Services Can Help
As the name suggests, mission critical data refers to any and all information that would cause irreparable damage to your business’s ability to function if lost. As technologies improve and cyber threats grow exponentially each year, the need for secure storage and backup services for this mission critical data is crucial for the survival of […]
Data Protection and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Unfortunately in life, terrible events such as natural disasters or other incidents happen almost every day. When these situations happen, one of the biggest problems for businesses that rely on vast amounts of data is disaster recovery. In today’s world, more businesses than ever need immediate and uninterrupted access to their data around the clock, […]
Creating a Business Continuity Plan That Uses Cloud Resources
Simply put a business continuity plan is something that you would put together to keep your business operational if your regular offices are affected by a disaster. This could be a short-term problem, such as a power failure that lasts a couple of hours, or it could be more serious, such as a broken water […]
Someone Broke The Internet – Major Network Issue
On Thursday August 27th, 2015, Volico started receiving calls from clients regarding a network issue around 2:55PM EST. Volico Engineers were immediately notified and investigation of the network problem was immediately escalated to top priority. Volico Engineers noticed that multiple eBGP sessions where flapping from multiple providers. Volico immediately began opening upstream support tickets to […]
Reasons to Use a Cloud-Based Infrastructure from a Hosting Service
Cloud-based hosting services are the future. Businesses need to have the hardware and software necessary to deliver this type of functionality to customers or employees. Creating this type of setup is not easy and requires expertise. Fortunately, hosting services can deliver hardware access across the Internet. There are several reasons to consider using a cloud-based […]
Why You Should Be Using Third-Party Backup Services
Any business that relies on digital data needs to back up internal systems regularly. This could be done through in-house staff and hardware. A better option is to use a third-party backup service. These services can manage backups through the cloud and make the process more reliable and secure. There are several reasons why you […]
Why Your Host Needs to Plan for Disaster Recovery
Disasters are a fact of life that individuals and businesses must face. While it’s hard for individuals to cope with the loss that tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes and fires can bring, it’s excruciating when your business’s valuable and irreplaceable records are wiped by an unfortunate event. It’s even worse to find out that your hosting services […]
