Logicalis IDs Eight Things CIOs Should Know About VMware vSphere

Farmington Hills, MI, (PRWEB) March 27, 2012

Today, with CFOs keeping a watchful eye on every penny, its more important than ever to embrace the virtues of virtualization and the ways it can help stretch server capacity, decrease the total cost of ownership of existing server equipment and enable organizations to operate at cloud scale. While hypervisor technology itself isnt new, there are some new and incredibly important advantages that the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite and VMware vSphere

Logicalis IDs Eight Things CIOs Should Know About VMware vSphere

Don"t be Complacent About Your Business Continuity Late in the Season

Grand Cayman (PRWEB) October 25, 2011

The recent heavy rain has been a stark reminder that the hurricane season is not over yet. Ignition Ltd., a leader in off-shore IT services, is reminding businesses not to underestimate the importance of having a business continuity strategy in place.

Those of us living in the hurricane belt are well-aware of the potential hazards a storm can bring. For a business, damage to property, paper records, digital data and disruption to overall business activity are very real possibilities. The most likely concerns are water damage and communications failure, both of which are fairly easy to avoid with proper storage and reliable backup procedures.

Sonya Sherman, Ignitions Senior Records Management Consultant says Information is the lifeblood of an organisation and its important to make sure that the information is backed up and secured. Most organisations will have a hurricane plan with strategies in place to protect both people and property. But it is vital that these plans incorporate your information assets. These plans should also be reviewed regularly. Its very easy to become complacent during the good times but keeping on top of your disaster recovery plans is a must.

Building a comprehensive strategy will ensure that information assets are protected. This not only helps minimise the risks and losses associated with a disaster, but will help return a business to normal as quickly as possible. It is human nature to hope for the best, Sonya continues but its good sense to plan for the worst.

Together with looking at protecting information, businesses should also consider how records and critical information systems are stored and backed-up. Backing up data is a necessary process to ensuring business continuity. The traditional approach of physically backing-up data and productions systems to a tape and then storing at a separate location is a risky approach. Data is backed up, but what about applications to run the data? What if the tape was damaged or destroyed?

This is one of the reasons more and more companies are adopting the cloud. With the cloud, companies no longer need to store systems in-house and can in fact remove their own servers altogether. A significant consequence of moving a companys operations to the cloud is that the business will automatically have a disaster recovery and business continuity solution in place. Back-ups of data and applications are made without having to duplicate everything.

With Ignition, data and company specific applications are also copied between multiple data hosting centres. says Graham Pearson, CEO of the Ignition Group. This means that should one centre go down, data and applications will still be available. In reality these data hosting centres are built far more robustly than anybodys own office building with multiple redundancy and back-up systems in place. Whether your business is a small startup or a multi-regional organisation, the benefits of using the cloud as part of your business continuity solution is clear.

Overall, the important thing to remember is not to become complacent about your business continuity plans, especially at the tail end of the hurricane season. Its never too late to look at or review your disaster recovery strategies. Graham concludes.

Ignition offers a fully comprehensive service that helps businesses address their business continuity requirements. From developing a robust information management strategy through to cloud back-up solutions, Ignition has extensive experience building business-specific solutions. For more information email smacdonald(at)ignitionmsp(dot)com.

Contact

For further information please contact

Stephanie MacDonald

Group Marketing Specialist

The Ignition Group of Technology Companies

Direct: 345-525-5771

Email: smacdonald(at)ignitionmsp(dot)com.

About Ignition

Ignition is an off-shore IT services organisation with clients in Europe, throughout the Caribbean and North America. Founded in 1998 in Bermuda, Ignition has grown significantly and is one of the leading IT service providers offering managed services, cloud computing, business continuity and disaster recovery, data backup and storage, virtualisation, records management, document scanning, application development and 24×7 service desk support. Ignition has offices located in Bermuda, Halifax and Cayman Islands with representative offices in Curacao, Bahamas, Jamaica and Trinidad. Visit http://www.ignitionmsp.com for more information.

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Don"t be Complacent About Your Business Continuity Late in the Season

Media Alert: Upcoming Complimentary Educational Webinar: The Truth About HIPAA-HITECH and Data Backup Requirements

(PRWEB) June 14, 2012

WHAT:

Complimentary Educational Webinar: The Truth About HIPAA-HITECH and Data Backup Requirements”

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Business leaders and managers with responsibility for Risk Management, Corporate Compliance, and HIPAA-HITECH Privacy and Security compliance should attend. CEOs, COOs, CFOs, Chief Compliance Officers, Chief Risk Officers, Chief Privacy Officers, Chief Security Officers and Chief Information Officers.

WHEN:

Thursday, June 21, 2012 11:00 AM CT / 12:00 PM ET

HOW TO REGISTER:

http://abouthipaa.com/hipaa-webinars/the-truth-about-hipaa-hitech-data-backup-requirements-live-webinar/

This webinar will help you understand and then implement solutions to meet the Contingency Plan Standard specifications for Data Backup and Disaster Recovery. Complying with the Contingency Plan Standard may very well serve as a last line of defense in demonstrating that you are not guilty of willful neglect when it comes to safeguarding electronic protected health information (ePHI).

In this Webinar, we will:

Media Alert: Upcoming Complimentary Educational Webinar: The Truth About HIPAA-HITECH and Data Backup Requirements

Web hosting, an industry that is growing exponentially is very exciting but, however, also very confusing. If you want to have an online presence nowadays you have to have your own website or blog. Some blogs though free, impose limitations on what you can do. If you want to be truly free on the internet and publish your uninhibited content, then you must consider web hosting. To the average internet user, social networks and email hosts are their areas of experience, but they know squat, when it comes to hosting and managing their own website. Trepidation and lack of confidence turns many potential webmasters away. Let us unravel the mystery of web hosting, shall we? Web hosting allows you to have a home on the internet; one that you have designed to the deepest desire of your heart. It may be a personal or business website, but it is still your home on the net. The internet is like a virtual city in which real estate is developed and traded. Those purchasing virtual property get to interact with each other within this virtual city. If you do not have your own website, but rely on limited free blogs, then you are like a rural individual, looking upon fast moving urbanites with envy. Your web site must be hosted on a server. A server, in layman’s terms, is the socket into the internet; it refers to the computer, group of computers or software that is used to host individual websites and allow communication throughout the internet. E.g. when you enter a query into a search engine, the query is sent from your computer to servers all over the internet that have pages relevant to your search. The results are then sent back by these servers to your computer. Virtual private servers (VPS) refer to virtual computers set aside for the exclusive use of an individual customer. A virtual machine runs on the same computer as other individual’s virtual machines but functions equivalently to a separate computer, and can be configured to run as a separate server. It is similar to when you partition a single physical hard drive in your home computer, into two or three “Virtual” hard drives. The term, cloud hosting, refers to a “cloud” of virtual servers that are networked. These networked servers could be spread out all over the internet. Britney Kalo is a journalist and an experienced content writer. She has more than six years experience in copywriting and journalism. Presently she is researching and writing on various subjects, but of particular interest are virtual private servers (VPS) and cloud hosting All about Virtual Private Servers

Web hosting, an industry that is growing exponentially is very exciting but, however, also very confusing. If you want to have an online presence nowadays you have to have your own website or blog. Some blogs though free, impose limitations on what you can do. If you want to be truly free on the internet and publish your uninhibited content, then you must consider web hosting. To the average internet user, social networks and email hosts are their areas of experience, but they know squat, when it comes to hosting and managing their own website. Trepidation and lack of confidence turns many potential webmasters away.

Let us unravel the mystery of web hosting, shall we?

Web hosting allows you to have a home on the internet; one that you have designed to the deepest desire of your heart. It may be a personal or business website, but it is still your home on the net. The internet is like a virtual city in which real estate is developed and traded. Those purchasing virtual property get to interact with each other within this virtual city. If you do not have your own website, but rely on limited free blogs, then you are like a rural individual, looking upon fast moving urbanites with envy.

Your web site must be hosted on a server. A server, in layman’s terms, is the socket into the internet; it refers to the computer, group of computers or software that is used to host individual websites and allow communication throughout the internet. E.g. when you enter a query into a search engine, the query is sent from your computer to servers all over the internet that have pages relevant to your search. The results are then sent back by these servers to your computer.

Virtual private servers (VPS) refer to virtual computers set aside for the exclusive use of an individual customer.

A virtual machine runs on the same computer as other individual’s virtual machines but functions equivalently to a separate computer, and can be configured to run as a separate server. It is similar to when you partition a single physical hard drive in your home computer, into two or three “Virtual” hard drives.

The term, cloud hosting, refers to a “cloud” of virtual servers that are networked. These networked servers could be spread out all over the internet.

Britney Kalo is a journalist and an experienced content writer. She has more than six years experience in copywriting and journalism. Presently she is researching and writing on various subjects, but of particular interest are virtual private servers (VPS) and cloud hosting

All about Virtual Private Servers