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Embrace The Cloud

August 26, 2019 /

As Information Technology becomes more and more strategic and critical in impacting an organization’s bottom line, companies look to the Cloud to decrease IT complexity and drive ROI. For some organizations, Cloud solutions can be more secure, predictable and scalable than on-premise solutions.

Hackers, cyber-terrorists, natural disasters, and man-made disasters are no match for the Cloud. When you consolidate your hardware infrastructure or become completely hardware independent with a virtual disaster recovery and business continuity solution, you can provide a seamless, secure, redundant environment at a fraction of the cost of traditional disaster recovery on-premise solutions.

The Cloud offers the same unified communications and collaboration that a traditional system offers, but with the benefit of not having to maintain your own equipment. Allow on-site and remote users to collaborate seamlessly between devices and platforms. VoIP, mobility, video-conferencing, instant messaging, bring-your-own-device (BYOD), and presence technologies all work together in the Cloud environment. Not ready to go “All In” with a Cloud solution? You don’t have to. You can have a Hybrid solution until you’re ready to cut the cord with your traditional system. This provides you known stability with your on-premise system, along with the disaster recovery security of a Cloud system. We can help you strategize and implement a custom Cloud solution for organizations in any vertical market. It’s time to embrace the Cloud.

Geo-Redundancy: What You Need To Know

July 26, 2019 /

When it comes to Cloud Communications, how stable is your phone system during carrier issues such as cable cuts, power outages, and natural disasters?

To answer this, it’s helpful to know how the cloud works. “Cloud” is simply a word that has come to mean “I don’t have to store anything on my local PC.” We store our pictures online. We do our banking online. We do our shopping online. The history of these events are stored “on the cloud.” Or, more accurately, in some huge warehouse that is full of servers that you access via your internet connection. Over time, this has become a more and more secure way of saving data. If I have a disaster at my house, gone are the days where I have a meltdown over all my pictures being lost, because they’re saved to the cloud. There are more important things to worry about than losing data, right?

How does this relate to our communications?

Simple.

With the cloud, you no longer have your hardware stored onsite. It is stored in one of those massive warehouses – or multiple massive warehouses – on servers that, prior to “the cloud,” you kept in your phone and data closets. You still have a phone on your desk, but in case of an emergency you don’t need it. A flip of a switch (so to speak) and you can start taking calls on your cell phone until you’re able to get back to your desk.

But what if the disruption in service doesn’t happen locally? What if it happens in one of those massive warehouses where all the servers are kept?

This is where Geo-Redundancy comes in.

As the name infers, Geo-Redundancy means that no matter your geographic location, your data (or service) is replicated elsewhere. It gives you an extra layer of protection. It allows you to continue receiving calls even if your cloud carrier, for whatever reason, loses power. If you have an internet connection, and your provider’s servers are geo-redundant, it is business as usual for you. If you are the one losing internet connection, with a couple minor tweaks you can continue doing business from your cell phone until your internet connection is restored. It is your best option for not losing business when life happens.

With everblu, we always strive to stay ahead of the game and keep up with the latest technology. Beginning June 1, 2019, all our cloud installs will go onto geo-redundant servers, giving our customers the best chance to keep business up and going when disaster strikes.

Don’t wait for an emergency. Contact us now!

Disaster Recovery – Are You Prepared?

June 25, 2019 /

With the rising waters of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, Disaster Recovery has come to the forefront of our minds. It’s one of those things like life insurance that you just don’t want to talk about. It’s easy to get apathetic and feel like it’s money that could be spent on other seemingly more important things in your normal day to day business life.

We insure our homes, our cars, our health for a sense of security in our personal lives, knowing that if anything out of the ordinary happened we would be alright. As business owners, we insure our buildings, our inventory, our fleet so that we’re protected from unforeseen events. It seems like enough, right?

But what about your information? Are you insuring your day to day business records?

What about your communications? Do you have insurance that guarantees your clientele can always reach you?

Can you continue to business if you have a blizzard and your staff can’t make it to work?

This is what we are talking about when we begin the Disaster Recovery discussion.

Disaster recovery (DR) is an area of security planning that aims to protect your whole organization from the effects of a significant negative event. DR allows you to maintain or quickly resume mission-critical functions following a disaster – or even just a major inconvenience.

A few questions you can ask yourself to see if you’ve taken adequate steps to protect your business in the case of a catastrophic event:

  1. Can I still access my data base?
  2. Can my employees get to work?
  3. Can my employees effectively work from an off-site location?
  4. Can my customers contact me?
  5. Can a transition from on-site to off-site be made easily?

Making assumptions that your organization is immune to natural disasters can be an extremely costly mistake. Some businesses never fully recover from it. Would yours?

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