It’s been an eventful last few weeks in the world of data protection. As if the challenges we have faced over the last 12 months weren’t enough, the threats posed by cybercrime, hardware failure, and other accidents have been on full display recently with two data loss / downtime events hitting the newswires: Microsoft Exchange…
Part 2: Disaster Recovery economics In our last blog, we talked about the “Technology Trifecta” that can be used to determine if disaster recovery (DR) makes sense for your business. One of the three criteria is Return on Investment (ROI). ROI is a financial data point that can be used to compare two competing investments…
Part 1: Disaster Recovery and the technology trifecta. Growth in disaster recovery (DR) solutions have been outpacing the broader IT market for years. Today, some research indicates that the market is growing at nearly 40% CAGR. These numbers are impressive, for sure, but they should not be a surprise. Universal truths about YOUR business. If…
If you are a Microsoft customer looking to move your existing application licenses to the cloud, we have some great news for you: iland Cloud is now a Microsoft Authorized Mobility Partner. Like any other transformational strategy designed to reduce costs and improve efficiency, moving to the cloud requires planning and forethought to reduce…
As if we needed another challenge in 2020, the Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be “busy” according to the NOAA Climate Prediction Center. What does this mean? From a probability standpoint, the outlook “predicts a 60% chance of an above-normal season, a 30% chance of a near-normal season and only a 10% chance of…
There is an old saying that there are no solutions, only trade-offs. We have all experienced this trade-off situation in our lives at some point, when we have to make a decision knowing that there is no perfect solution available. It’s the reason why some people choose to put money in the stock market and…
The last few weeks have been a major adjustment for all of us. At no time in recent memory has there been such a contrast between what we have historically viewed as “normal”, and what we currently view as “reality”. For some of us, the best-case scenario is we are able to do our jobs…
iland has been providing cloud services for mission-critical application protection, performance, and security for over a decade. During that time, we’ve worked with a wide range of partners and technologies to understand our customers’ needs, and deliver solutions that fit those needs – without compromise. Today, if you visit www.iland.com, you will see that our…
Few things in the life of an IT admin are as anxiety-inducing as having to take down your company’s mission critical applications. The uptime of your Systems of Record (SoR) and Systems of Engagement (SoE) including the applications and infrastructure that keeps your business running and customers happy is often the lynchpin to revenue generation,…
For years, cybersecurity was a niche skill that most IT professionals were comfortable ignoring. If customers wanted to know more about a given security capability with a software or service offering, most of us would have gone directly to our security and compliance specialist for the answer, or more likely, made an introduction directly to…
