SIS takes a collaborative approach to develop a hybrid DR solution that minimizes risk, maximizes recovery, technical capabilities and existing infrastructure SITUATION: A large Midwest provider of health insurance plans was looking for a better defense against a catastrophic event. They were struggling with their existing Disaster Recovery (DR) provider; the off-site tape-based solution wasn’t […]
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Do you have a full view of your IT budget?
In today’s business world, companies often maintain a broad-ranging portfolio of software and infrastructure products, all of which have varying service and maintenance agreements. Complicating matters further is the fact companies constantly alter the number of products and users, which makes managing maintenance contracts and remaining fully compliant a never-ending task. Do you get surprised […]
What Organizations should consider before moving data to the cloud
Cloud storage is readily-accessible and convenient technology that gives access to data anywhere. With that convenience, however, comes risk. Companies who utilize the cloud to store their data need to make sure they are doing all they can to secure it. And cloud data security isn’t just only about technology. It’s also about managing the […]
Check list to build the right backup and recovery infrastructure
The purpose of this check list is to help you organize your infrastructure details in order to build a comprehensive data protection solution. You should also be ready to explain your current challenges you would like to address with the new solution, as well as new capabilities you desire. Items to be considered for backup […]
Recovery Challenge – Manufacturing Company Devastated by Petya
The Attack On a Sunday in early August of 2017, a form of ransomware slipped through a Google Drive document and brought down a major us-based manufacturing company with thousands of employees. Normally when attacked by ransomware, as the name suggests, a demand in the form of payment is required in order to retrieve the […]
Managed Hosting Services for Your IBMi
Asking questions of your hosting partner Why do customers host their iSeries with us? Mike: Initially, the conversation usually begins when a company wants to take another look and re-evaluate their investment in their platform and the long term management of that platform. Some soul searching takes place, questions like, “are we investing in the right areas?”, and, […]
Big Data Part 1
What’s Big Data? Big Data is a phrase heard a lot these days. It seems like there is a lot of confusion in business as to what to do with Big Data and how to prepare for it. Yet, Gartner predicts that Big Data will affect every industry – banking, healthcare, and transportation just to […]
What to consider when developing a data retention policy
As we mentioned in last month’s post on the differences between Back-up and Archive, it seems that the concepts of data retention and data retention policies have been in the news a fair amount lately. We made reference to the 6-month data retention policy utilized by the IRS as just one such example. In the […]
Do you need help understanding backup software licensing?
Insights from Jeremy Brovage who is one of our Storage Solutions Architects within SIS’ Infrastructure Solutions practice. Jeremy has more than 24 years’ experience with storage, backup and archive technologies, including 20 years as Spectrum Protect / Tivoli Storage Manager SME. There are many back-up software applications on the market today. Some are specialized for a […]
Software-Defined Storage for Digital Transformation
The case for SDS: the digital transformation imperative. IDC shows the top benefits, workloads, challenges and vendor considerations – Download PDF. SDS frees your most valuable assets – your team and data to easily adapt to new workloads and enable to the cloud initiatives. SDS is also crucial for deploying multi-cloud on-demand consumption of public/private […]