Many Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMB) have turned to Managed IT Services to manage their IT infrastructure, from desktops to servers and storage. And they are doing it for the same reasons as large firms. While the scope might be different, the results are typically the same and therefore the reasons. We spend a…
Choosing a Data Center Provider for Co-location
Choosing the right data center provider to co-locate your IT infrastructure should be done with care and a lot of thought. One thing you don’t want to do is make the wrong choice up front. The cost of making a mistake can be huge. Most contracts are from 36 to 60 months in length. If…
Can Your Business Survive a Disaster?
Here at Arbor Solutions, we’re in the middle of several High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) implementations for several clients, each one different from the rest. They include full HA and DR replication hot sites as well as hosted solutions. So, when a local event happened here the other day, it caused me to…
Network Provider Expands Data Centers
US Signal has been a valued partner of ours for the last several years. Their robust network and distributed data centers have been assets to our customers, providing quality bandwidth and carrier quality data center facilities across the midwest. It’s encouraging to us, and our client base, to see that they are increasing their data…
Thoughts on Viruses and Malware
I was sitting in a coffee shop with my trusty MacBook a few days ago trying to get some work done (that’s my story anyway). I got to thinking about security as I looked across the coffee shop landscape in front of me, while connected to an unsecured network. Just a couple days prior to…