Not Your Typical IT Guys

This has been unbelievable!  Over 72 inches of snow this year in MD and counting!! WOW, to be 12 years old again and all this means is no school, hot chocolate, snow ball fights and sledding…. such the life.

Now for those of us all grown up and have jobs to do and business to run and we can’t even get out of our house’s… shoveling..ugh!

Well, for myself, my business partner and 200 of our clients that’s not an issue.  We all have some form of Internet… in fact, my Comcast is out, but my cellular is on and I am working.

Our clients are sleeping well because the network is available to them and their staff, with all of their data and applications. 

• There are no fears about power outages at the office shutting down the servers and terminating remote access. 
• No fears of who is going to cycle the backup tapes.
• Technical support is available like every other day to help with their needs.
• Staff is staying productive.
• Business is continuing despite the SNOW!

I try not to use this blog as an in your face sales tool, but hey… sometimes it is nice to brag about ourselves…

So if you are at home right now reading this blog thinking about all that work piles up at the office and lord knows when anyone will be able to get to it, shoot me an email… or if you don’t have email right now give me a call, I’d love to tell you more about what Simplified Innovations can do for you.

Everyone is always asking, “Do you have a Disaster Recovery Plan?” and the overwhelming answer is…. wait for it, wait for it… “I told our IT guy to come up with something.”

Grrrr, OK this post isn’t about why IT is only a component of DR and why there needs to be more involvement than just IT in the DR Plan.  This post is focused on how IT can take care of their aspect of things in one clean swoop and leave the rest up to the others!

So why do we call it Disaster Protection?

Well, we don’t want to rebuild after there has been a disaster!  I’d rather put systems and protections in place so that in the unfortunate case that there is a disaster we don’t have to rebuild from the ground up and hope we don’t miss anything along the way. Instead, thanks to the proliferation of internet access, advances in virtualization technologies, reduced cost of storage and memory and access to true Data Centers, we can now protect the IT Infrastructure from disaster and keep it up and running even if the office no longer exists, has lost power, or is frozen over!  How cool is that!?!

Here is the premise, by having your network hosted in a secure data center everything remains accessible if disaster should occur.  Now, keep in mind, the Data Center is only as good as its level of redundancies. Here is some information regarding Data Center Tiers.  HSI’s primary site uses a SAS70 Type II, Tier 3 Data Center that has the fault tolerance of a Tier 4.  Be careful, there are places out there that call themselves Data Centers that aren’t much more than a closet with dedicated A/C and some batteries, not your ideal protection!

While a disaster may require a company to rebuild their office, or replace furniture, or even replace some desktop computers and printers.  Businesses that have “Disaster Protection” in place won’t have to rebuild network servers, restore data from backup tapes (pray they work), and get your email back online and rebuild workstations before business can continue. Instead everyone can work from home, their neighbors, Starbucks, McDonald’s, Banes & Noble or the library until the office disaster has been resolved.

Disaster Protection is one of the many great features built into the HSI TruCloud™  Our clients sleep peacefully at night knowing their systems are safe, secure and protected in case of unanticipated events.  Can you say the same?

What would you do if you got that call, “Hello Anne Business Owner, this is the police, your office has been robbed and all of your computers and servers have been taken.” In LA a few weeks ago these calls really happened, here’s the article.

What would you do?  Would your company be able to recover?  Is there a backup somewhere that can be loaded to get you back up and running?  How long will you be down?

Oh yeah, no need to panic!  Insurance will replace the computers.  While everything is being replaced your employees can work from home because all of your data and applications are hosted in a Tier 3 Data Center that require biometric scanners to even walk in the door.  For you, the smart business owner that you are, this will simply be a little inconvenience. 

Wow, its a good thing you moved everything over to Hosted Solutions Inc as your technology solutions provider.

Sleep well Anne Business Owner!

If you are not Anne Business Owner… see what Darren Root from CPATechViews thinks you should consider.