Let’s start someplace you might not expect: At the “Doors of Durin.” For those who lack this level of nerd knowledge, the Doors of Durin were the western entrance to the great Dwarven kingdom of Khazad-dûm in Lord of the Rings. If you saw The Fellowship of the Ring, you might remember that the Doors,…
iland provides IT resilience for Sound Community Bank and Benchmade Knife Company with Backup, DRaaS and more. iland recently announced partnerships with two amazing customers — Sound Community Bank and Benchmade Knife Company. Find out more about each unique journey toward IT resilience and peace of mind below. Sound Community Bank About: Sound Community Bank…
Last month, technology reporter John Edward wrote a story in Information Week on the importance of using a roadmap to develop a cloud infrastructure. The article was intended for company IT leaders who are under pressure to move as much as possible to the cloud as fast as they can – which seems to be…
Last week Veeam released a blog post detailing how IT professionals can protect their remote workers’ important data for free using Veeam agents. This is a fantastic way for IT professionals to continue to perform their critical data backups even in these “work from home” times. However, there’s one key flaw in the advice given…
Last month Hannah Murphy wrote a story in the Financial Times about how organizations are having to learn “how to negotiate with hackers.” The article was fascinating in a number of ways but especially in how ransomware attacks have become so common that we’re actually having conversations about how to talk to hackers. Murphy’s article…
Background The city of Geneseo, Ill. represents the best of small-town America with more than 6,500 residents, 100 acres of parks and playgrounds, 19 restaurants and one IT professional named Garrett Griswold. Before Garrett joined Geneseo as Director of IT four years ago, the city had no IT infrastructure to speak of. But over the…
Are you one of many considering the public cloud for your disaster recovery plan? Public cloud has the potential to be a useful part of your DR strategy, but it doesn’t come without its challenges too. DR in the public cloud can be complex and expensive to build and test, and your organization has to…
Recovery testing is about much more than simply verifying that data can be restored. It’s about making sure that workloads can be brought back online following a disaster. In order for recovery to be effective, administrators need to understand the complex mesh of dependencies that are at work and must also understand (and leverage) the…
No service is invulnerable, and Office 365 is no exception. Organizations today are incredibly dependent on services like messaging and collaboration tools, so when a service like Office 365 inevitably experiences an outage, what is the impact to business? Having proper data protection and disaster recovery mechanisms in place is key, but since SaaS platforms…
Although data recovery capabilities remain important, especially in the age of ransomware, data restoration capabilities alone are no longer enough. In today’s world it is more important to focus data protection efforts around operational resiliency and ongoing availability. Organizations are largely shifting their data protection efforts towards disaster recovery. Whereas backups focus on making recoverable…
