Friday 24 April 2015

LET’S TALK ABOUT THE ADVANTAGES OF A MANAGED HOSTING PLATFORM

There are key advantages to working with a managed services or facilitating supplier. Whether the association is a start-up, SMB or undertaking – utilizing managed services like online backup solutions has some extraordinary benefits.

Wednesday 15 April 2015

TWO PRIME CONSIDERATIONS FOR CLOUD BACKUP AND DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES IN NEW YORK

Utilizing the cloud for reinforcements and catastrophe recovery permits businesses to diminish costs, both from a capex and opex viewpoint. Anyhow, before you put your reinforcement and DR eggs in the cloud container, here are two things you have to look into if you are looking for a service provider in New York.

Wednesday 8 April 2015

Factors that Helps to Assess Which Cloud is Right for Your Business

To identify which cloud technology is right for your business, starts with a closer inspection of the factors that helps to make best choice. Based on location (private, public, virtual private, hybrid, community) and type of services (infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, software as a service, etc.), the cloud technology has varied scope and sub-types.

Thursday 2 April 2015

A smart checklist: for Corporate Relocation

                            
Reason for a corporate relocation can be many including a better work environment, easy access to skill set or proximity to target market etc. Moving an office or a business is far more complex than shifting household. To make the process simple and seamless here is a quick checklist to keep your corporate move on the track.

Tuesday 24 March 2015

Which Cloud Model is Right for your Business?

Cloud has been a game changer in IT landscape. Majority of the organizations found moving to the cloud as a pragmatic approach to maximize productivity, balance workloads, resources depending upon the availability of the budget. Cloud computing provides scalability, flexibility, efficiency and on-demand access to servers, applications, storage and other resources. However, one challenge faced by businesses was in determining where they can host their technology assets and which cloud model from Public. Private, hybrid, community etc.) they should adopt for their business depends upon the closer examination of the cloud and their business needs.

Here is an overview of different cloud models:

1.Public Cloud - In a public cloud, collection of resources are owned, managed and operated by a service provider. In a public cloud many different companies together share their resources and these are provisioned for open use by the general public.

 2. Private Cloud - Private cloud is a more secure and superior option, in this pool of resources are used by a single company, all resources, are owned, managed and operated by the organization itself either on or off premises.

 3.Hybrid Cloud - Hybrid cloud offers a balanced approach, wherein a combination of two or more distinct cloud infrastructure (private, public or community) remains independent entities but are still bound by standardized technology enabling quick data and application portability.

 4.Community Cloud - In a community cloud, a pool of resources are provisioned by an organization for independent use wherein several organizations and their users own, manage and operate these resources from a specific group with common computing concerns. Community clouds are often used by businesses and organizations working on joint ventures, applications, research work etc. wherein they require a central cloud computing facility for successfully executing such projects.

Depending upon the company requirement, you can pick one of the cloud model mentioned above. However, once you establish your processes on the cloud infrastructure, it is critical that you manage it efficiently to optimize the business processes.

Wednesday 18 March 2015

Pros and Cons of Build & Buy Data Centers

In present IT landscape, many companies are facing the question whether they should build a data center in their facility or buy a data center that suits their company needs. Here, in this blog, we are going to discuss all valid implications to be aware about before reaching a conclusion whether to build or buy a data center.

For reaching a right decision, it is important to firstly evaluate your core business strengths, experience, ability of internal resources, availability of funds, size and type of organization, these all factors are necessary to consider for making a wise decision.


Build Data Center Buy Data Center
Build data center refers to building your own data center within the organization's facility depending upon the needs that best suits your company. Buy data center refers to taking a facility on lease from a service provider whose competency lies in designing a data center based on customer's business requirements.
Other thing to consider is sensitivity to cash flow that can be another deciding factor. Whether company has enough funds to invest in equipment, maintain them and take charge of other expenditures. For building a data center, company needs more funds. When it comes to buying a data center, it is a cost-effective option as compared to designing data center from the scratch. In this company needs to pay for only those services which they are using.
Another factor that can help you in taking a well-informed decision is dependency on internal resources, required deployment time-frame, accessibility to data center and most importantly your organization's experience and expertise in operating a data center. In this operation, you don’t have to be concerned about running a data center as your provider will take care of required bandwidth, required equipment, security and privacy of data. The only pull back here can be your company needs to share the space with other company's so if you are comfortable with shared space then this makes a great choice.

Tuesday 10 March 2015

Warning Signs that Means Your IT Network Needs Monitoring

A company's network is one of the most valued component to keep the business operations up and running. To ensure high performance from network, proactive approach to network monitoring is required. However, if your network displays any of the below mentioned monitoring signs then a monitoring system is required.