I am very excited to introduce the newest extension of the Axcient platform – Cloud Continuity. The Axcient team has been working tirelessly on this project in stealth for over a year and now we’re bringing it to the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market to end downtime for good.
Business downtime is a real issue and causes SMBs billions of dollars a year. Many of our own customers have suffered from fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and thefts. While backup helps ensure that data is recoverable, it leaves a glaring gap in today’s always-on world – the time between the event that causes downtime and the time it takes to get a business’ systems, applications, and data up and running. Axcient first solved this problem with our local failover capability, which enables a business to run its servers on the Axcient local appliance in the event of server failure. But, this didn’t provide a solution for the more widespread business outages mentioned above; if the Axcient local appliance was also unavailable, the business would be down for days or even weeks. Now, with Axcient Cloud Continuity, customers are able to get their business systems back up and running, even in the worst-case scenarios where all business servers and the Axcient onsite appliance are lost. Continue reading “Axcient Cloud Continuity Makes Downtime for SMBs a Thing of the Past” »
Cloud computing provides centralized and elastic computer resources available on demand without capital investment. You can also think of it like a utility – electricity, gas, telephone or cable TV.
I’m proud to announce the launch of the Axcient blog. In the coming months we’ll be sharing our thoughts on industry news, technology trends, product updates, strategies for growing your business, managed services tips, sales and marketing tactics and much more. You’ll see posts from a variety of key executives and contributors at Axcient offering you their perspectives on various topics and sharing the lessons they’ve learned over the years.