Like clockwork, there are a few things we can all set our watches to this time of year: Halloween fades rapidly into the holiday “season” (trees are up and carols are playing in the mall before the trick-or-treat candy is finished), and Gartner is on hand to tell us what to look forward to in [...] [...more]
Data disaster recovery plans (DRPs) have always been controversial, at least when it comes down to the cost; upfront capital and resources must go into the system, and it’s never easy to convince a skeptical or hesitant manager to invest in a plan that may or may not ever have a return on investment, particularly [...] [...more]
Once a business or organization has made the decision to move its key business processes and IT infrastructure to the cloud, they often do so with concerns about the potential risks involved. A move to the cloud transfers serious control of a client’s privacy, availability, security, data retention and protection to the cloud service provider. [...] [...more]
BluPointe’s new replication and cross-replication features combined translate to unprecedented data protection and restoration, all but eliminating downtime. ATLANTA, Georgia, July 25, 2011 — BluPointe DRS has introduced two new features to its backup and disaster recovery ShadowProtect BDR product, offering BDR-to-BDR replication to two sites, as well as cross replication of multiple sites, [...] [...more]
Chris Stewart brings more than a decade of Internet technology, web development, virtual private server and open source experience to the BluPointe team. ATLANTA, Georgia, June 22, 2011 – BluPointe DRS founder and CEO Ron Roberts has named Chris Stewart Information Technology Director for the company’s Atlanta-based headquarters. Stewart is responsible for BluPointe’s internal and [...] [...more]
BluPointe’s new archiving platform works for MSPs, data centers, and business in either a public or private cloud, and can be combined with BluPointe’s existing data backup cloud infrastructure solution, or as an add-on to an existing solution. ATLANTA, Georgia, June 14, 2011 —. BluPointe DRS, a leader in online backup for managed service providers [...] [...more]
BluPointe Announces Cloud Back-up Solution for Businesses Businesses and their service providers can protect data through the cloud to their own data center with BluPointe’s “Try it, Buy it, Rent it,” program. (BluPointe Announces Cloud Back-up Solution for Businesses). [...more]
. Hardly a week goes by without a news story where an outage impacts key online services. . Twitter has had a series of well-documented resilience issues and more recently, errors have impacted Skype’s services too. Typically, when a tech issue hits a large tech company, they are up and running again pretty swiftly. However, [...] [...more]
While companies with unlimited storage, tiers of redundant servers, and high-speed WAN links may want to provide unlimited online storage for their users, the rest of us have to contend with budgets, hardware limitations, and bandwidth that is never enough. Combine this with users’ tendencies to use PSTs, hard drives that crash, and the chance [...] [...more]
Businesses, especially those with limited budgets, are discovering the use of cloud computing for disaster recovery. This totally dispenses with the need for expensive hardware, as data stored in the cloud is on the servers of service providers. They in turn have their own system of servers at different locations, which constantly back up any [...] [...more]