By Laurie Head AIS Network VP, Marketing Communications Well, it’s off to Bath County to sponsor the 2013 Annual Conference of the Virginia Association of Counties (VACo), which is beginning on Sunday at the Omni Homestead Resort. As you may already know, AISN hosts the commonwealth portal, Virginia.gov, and provides hosting services for numerous state … Read more
Business continuity is a big deal these days, and disaster recovery plans are a key component of business continuity. Below is a brief checklist to help guide you: Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Project Approach 1. Business Impact Analysis a. Review existing business continuity capabilities: i. Evaluate the risk to business process failures ii. Identify critical … Read more
GUEST BLOG Think business continuity plans are not important? Think again. In late October 2012, Hurricane Sandy left devastation in parts of the Caribbean, Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states, and Eastern Canada. With winds up to 80 mph, this Category 2 hurricane wreaked havoc along the eastern seaboard of the United States from Florida to Maine. … Read more
By Joshua Darrin AIS Network Director of Operations Replicating your entire infrastructure to a remote, disaster resilient location designed to be “always on” is not nearly as difficult as it may have been just five years ago. Welcome the cloud – designed to be there when you need it most. The combination of the cloud … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President Last October, Hurricane Sandy slammed into the United States, severely impacting millions of businesses and governments and displacing 776,000 East Coast residents. It resulted in an estimated $71.4 billion in damages – the sixth most costly hurricane in U.S. history. Although Sandy’s meteorological characteristics were unique, the ensuing … Read more
If your servers are knocked out, how much unplanned downtime can your business sustain? Think about it. Data loss can cripple a business. Downtime results in: lost competitive advantage lost revenue and productivity long-term erosion of customer retention strained relations with strategic partners damage to corporate reputation As a business owner myself, I might also … Read more
So, you are working through your go-forward IT strategy and need to make sure that you have things covered should something go wrong. Pretty quickly, you notice that the terms “Backup” and “Disaster Recovery” are quite often being used interchangeably. But, the truth is, they are different. Related, yes, but different. How are disaster recovery … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President Preparing for an emergency is a key factor to business continuity after a disaster. Wherever the threat comes from – whether it’s physical, virtual, network failure or cybercrime-related – it’s important that your business is equipped to deal with the problem. In fact, the U.S. Department of Labor … Read more
By Jay Atkinson AIS Network CEO Can the AIS Network data center reliably maintain data availability when a massive storm hits? Yes! Last night, the Washington, DC, metropolitan area suffered a massive, highly destructive storm replete with high winds, thunder, lightning and heavy rains. This afternoon, more than 1.3 million households and businesses across the … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President, Marketing Communications I’m hooked on the idea of boosting PR, marketing and advertising agency productivity through unified communications, collaboration platforms and cloud computing. As a former PR executive specializing in tech PR for a large, global agency and later a DC-based boutique firm, I can see clearly how … Read more