Migrating to the cloud, like all other strategic projects, should be a methodically planned exercise. As with all technology undertakings, proper due diligence, planning, testing and re-testing should take place before the actual migration starts. A good migration strategy should always contain: A full analysis of the undertaking with a detailed project plan with all the necessary project...}
Not sure if your business needs to use a virtual private server (VPS) or a virtual data centre (VDC)? While the two are related, they are not the same thing. Both a VPS and VDC are invaluable tools for businesses of all sizes, from small organisations looking for an affordable and secure server to suit their unique needs, to growing and enterprise-level organisations that require maximum...}
Business leaders and owners of small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) face a wide range of competing priorities every day. Anything that could potentially prevent normal operations, such as an unexpected outage or system downtime, simply can’t be afforded. Imagine arriving at your business in the morning only to find that your virtual servers ran updates during the night and corrupted the...}
Data replication is the process of electronically copying data from one storage location to another. If your business unexpectedly faced an outage and you needed to recover, data replication allows for the effortless resumption of operations after an incident minimal loss or corruption of data. The primary purpose of data replication in a Disaster Recovery Plan is to ensure that business...}
When you pay your cloud service provider to store your data, the assumption is that your content is fully secure. It may be well protected from hackers but what about from the cloud vendors’ interests? Do providers have the right to go in and use your data – or to allow other organisations, such as government agencies, to access your data? Data should always remain the exclusive property of the...}
Cloud-based services can increase the efficiency of your business operations, improve cash flow and bring many other benefits. There’s no doubt about its capabilities and advantages. However, did you know that cloud service providers differ in their approach to data security and use of technology? These differences may seem minor at first, but they could have an enormous impact on the...}
Businesses today rely heavily on their IT systems and there are very few businesses that will not be severely impacted by an incident which results in unplanned IT downtime. IT infrastructure, the applications that run on the infrastructure and the data that is created through the business applications are the essential life force of modern businesses today. Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business...}
Digital innovation is a driving force which leaders and owners of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) cannot ignore. Every day new digital innovations disrupt traditional business models in ways we couldn’t imagine a few years ago. Think of what Amazon has done to book stores, Netflix has done to video stores, Uber has done to the taxi industry and Airbnb has done to the accommodation...}
You may not have thought much about it, but the data you store in the cloud is as valuable - perhaps more so - as the money you keep in your bank. What if the bank took your money - money you thought was staying in Australia - and put it into a foreign bank? What if the political situation changed in that country, and the government took possession of that money? With data storage, that’s exactly...}
We're thrilled to announce the recent regional expansion of Zettagrid Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud solutions into Indonesia, with the opening of a new zone in Jakarta. This expansion is the first step in Zettagrid’s strategy to deliver cloud services to the whole APAC region. “Our decision to expand the Zettagrid cloud products and services into Indonesia is part of our global...}