Posts Tagged ‘data storage’

Always On Part II: How long can your business survive without your data?

Randy Weis

I’m finally getting back to this train of thought. To recap… Read More »

Network Utilization, KPIs and the Truth

Nate Schnable

Recently, I came across a question posed on our website asking how to effectively measure network utilization.  On a high-level that answer seems easy, but in reality there is more to it.  One should certainly measure bandwidth, and for the sake of this conversation we are talking WAN bandwidth, from both inbound and outbound perspectives.  While this snapshot could help from an immediate remediation perspective, it is only a snapshot.  If you didn’t run the command at the exact correct moment you might have missed something.  Actually, we probably already did. Read More »

Earthquakes? Vacations? Always On: Highly Available Data

Randy Weis

How long can your business survive without your data? What data, you ask? We’ll get back to that in a minute.

How long can your business survive if your people can’t access the internet? How long can you go without cable or satellite TV at home, especially in football season or <insert your sport here>?

How long can you go without a mobile phone signal, where you can’t text, call or browse with your BB/Android/iPhone? Read More »