After The Storm: The Hard Lessons
Florida has been very lucky over the years with potential Hurricanes coming through. The Bay area was largely unaffected with flooding and property damage at least with the Shield Watch client base, however we did see countless issues with Power and Internet outages throughout Tampa Bay affecting day to day operation, email flow, internet connectivity and backup concerns.
The Shield Watch team has a number of recommendations that will help alleviate these problems with just such outages in the future.
Backup & Cloud Redundancy Concerns: We all know how important having a backup of our backup of are backup is, however if you haven’t adopted some form of file or redundancy cloud option than it’s time to take a second look. If you have Datto or eFolder’s Replibit server in place we feel more than confident about the restoration process in the event of a major disaster and the need for recovery. If you’re the business is still swapping hard drives in a daily or weekly rotation than a cloud backup solution should be adopted to ensure business continuity in the future. If you’ve received pricing in the past for just such backup services, it’s worth a second look yet again. Contact the Shield Watch sales department further to discuss your options today!
Internet Services Outage: Throughout Tampa Bay Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable) was largely affected throughout the entire state of Florida. Frontier FiOS had limited failures throughout the state, but not in the capacity that Spectrum received. For anyone without a secondary Internet Service Provider it’s imperative to have one in place. If you’re interested the Shield Watch team can get the ball rolling with FiOS or competing ISP company directly and potentially provide service options that are more competitive than going direct then contact the Shield Watch sales team further to discuss your options today!
Email Service Outage: Businesses without Microsoft’s Office 365 or Google Business Services you may have been affected by email flow failure. Shield Watch recommends whenever possible to incorporate one of these services to avoid disconnection of a localized mail flow. We completely understand that with these services the total cost of ownership in cases with 50+ employees can be rather high so it should best be taken in a case to case basis. Contact the Shield Watch sales department further to discuss your options today!
Power Service Outage: Power outages have been ramped especially throughout Pinellas county especially Clearwater & St. Petersburg. Cloud solutions have come along way and they continue to evolve annually. If you were one of the many affected a Power Outage it may be a good time to see what your options are to move your local server infrastructure to a comparative cloud solution. We have various providers that we work with like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Hivelocity & Nerdio which are perfect for any small business. For those that require a more robust infrastructure we can even help migrating the infrastructure to your own co-location facility like Peak 10 for a true redundant cooling, power & internet infrastructure. If you’re interested in more information contact the Shield Watch sales team to discuss your options today!
Blog: https://shieldwatch.com/blog/storm-hard-lessons/
Professional Commercial Photographer at Angela Mann Photography
7 年Hi Tom! I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Angela Mann and I am the owner of Angela Mann Photography https://angelamannphotography.com We are commercial and event photographers with a keen eye for detail, providing high-quality images that are unique to your business. With integrity and a commitment to customer service and satisfaction, we are experts in our field. Our commercial model service may be used by our clients to reach their target audience. Thus resulting in unique, beautiful, quality images making their website, flyers, business cards and marketing materials much more effective. My team and I would love the opportunity to work with your business. Please check out our website and let me know if we can ever be of help to you or your clients with website photos, branding photos, headshots, social media photos, etc. We do everything! Looking forward to talking with you, Angela Mann [email protected]