Imagine a disaster recovery protocol that accepts multiday downtime of critical systems, damaged equipment, devastating losses, and collective misery as part of the standard operating plan — where those outcomes or their severity are largely preventable. In a truly sad turn of events, this is the scenario the State of Texas is facing in the […]
Downtime is the Enemy of Presence As businesses change and adapt, one thing is for certain: their online presence (website, ecommerce, service portal, public web services, etc.) continues to grow… and is so does the importance of that presence. Expanded presence offers tremendous opportunity, but also brand, business, and operational risk. Outages become much more […]
On February 6, the New York Times published a potent and timely article, How the United States Lost to Hackers, with the subhead, “America’s biggest vulnerability in cyberwarfare is hubris.” It’s a compelling read that both sketches a threat landscape long known to cybersecurity and data protection experts, and includes accounts of some exploits that […]
As modern IT infrastructures explode with exponential data growth and as downtime becomes prohibitively disruptive for business operations, hybrid cloud backup seizes the opportunity and serves as one of the most important items in an IT toolkit. Hybrid cloud backup solutions combine both the performance of the traditional on-premises backup with the infinite scalability, and […]
Some special days on the calendar are whimsical, some are too commercialized. International Data Privacy Day is neither. It highlights a massive and unwieldy problem requiring immediate global attention from individuals, businesses, governments, and organizations of every kind: Exponential data growth in our data-filled work, lives, and world means unprecedented personal and business data exposure. […]
At Infrascale the definition of customer goes beyond that of a transactional relationship. We believe that a customer is a partner with whom we strive to form a long-lasting, “people-powered” relationship. To achieve this mission, we work diligently to go beyond merely providing answers to questions when partners reach out for support. We endeavor to […]
The pandemic sparked accelerated corporate adoption of cloud services, but, as we move into 2021, business executives increasingly seek ways to protect hosted data, infrastructure, and their organizations from an array of potential problems ranging from bad actors to data loss to vendor lock-in. Public cloud will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 18.3% […]
What is Disaster Recovery as a Service? Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a service model that provides backup and recovery via the use of a third-party cloud environment, whereby all of the disaster recovery functionality, including orchestration, are provided as-a-service. As-a-service means that the consumer of DRaaS need not own, nor manage, the […]
Many have heard the adage that in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. However, in 2020, we may want to also include cyber-attacks and other disasters that jeopardize your data. The global pandemic has seen a huge rise in people working from home, shopping online, and being more […]
Cyber Monday is always the Monday after Thanksgiving. In 2020, that date will be Monday, November 30. Are you ready? No, we don’t mean ready to make a lot of online purchases. Or, from a retailer perspective, ready to process higher-than-usual data transaction volumes. Those are givens. Rather, are you prepared for a secure Cyber […]