Datacenters are a source of fascination for me. The startups I worked on early in my career targeted enterprise-class customers, primarily telecommunications and financial services, which counted down time in ”millions of dollars per minute.” I particularly enjoyed the technical challenge of delivering products that would “measure up”. At one point the company I worked [...]
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Axcient Cloud Continuity Makes Downtime for SMBs a Thing of the Past
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 [...]
How Can You Lose Data? Let’s Count the Ways…
Users accidentally delete files Laptops are dropped Files are stolen Software is corrupted Systems are hacked Thumb drives are lost External drives fail Tape storage degrades Viruses crash drives Servers are ruined by fire, tornado, earthquake, flood, hurricane, or other natural disasters Servers are destroyed by vandals, thieves, or other saboteurs’ Administrators neglect to properly [...]
How Much Downtime Can Your SMB Afford?
Most small and medium-sized businesses have some type of backup system in place. Anyone who has extensively worked on a network realizes that it’s not a matter of if a server will fail but when. However, backup alone cannot address the problem of the lost work productivity a business faces during the period of time [...]