The role of the IT professional has undergone a transformation in recent years: from a support unit tasked with the upkeep of a business’s systems toward a broader role of business strategist and operations consultant. In addition to providing support and security, IT professionals are tasked with enhancing performance, increasing efficiency and ensuring the uptime of data and systems.
Data center outages can have a major impact on business operations. The airline industry has made headlines recently due to system outages grounding flights. Delta has had two major IT outages within the past six months that resulted in significant travel delays.
Immedion is a customer-first organization. Throughout our nearly 10-year history, customer service has always been one of our top priorities. We pride ourselves on delivering the attention and assistance of a local provider with all the same capabilities of a national provider. Our customer service team is dedicated to delivering the best possible support to our customers 24x7x365, and I’m proud of the work they do each day.
Gartner recently released their Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 report outlining the key topics expected to shape the IT landscape into the year 2020. Here are some of the trends we thought were most interesting:
There is a marked difference between choosing a run of the mill colocation and cloud provider and choosing a local partner you can trust to work with you to find the best technical solutions for your business. Immedion is dedicated to serving as our customers’ technology partner.
Immedion is dedicated to keeping up with the latest technological advances and trends and delivering them to our customers. We know how challenging it can be to maintain and implement the most up to date advances, so we make it a priority to learn and assist in the implementation process for our customers.
September kicks off National Preparedness Month and the peak of hurricane season. Preparation is key to assuring your business’s ability to bounce back from a weather-related disaster with minimal losses.
Disaster Recovery (DR) typically conjures images of hurricanes, tornados or other weather-related disasters. However, your DR solution may be useful for more than just a weather emergency.
According to a report released by the Ponemon Institute and Emerson Network Power, downtime costs for 2016 so far are nearly $2.5 million, and maximum downtime costs have increased 32% since 2013. With tornado season winding down and hurricane season fast upon us, it seems there is always a possibility of disaster that could threaten your productivity.
According to an online survey from Forrester and the Disaster Recovery Journal, businesses reported 72% of their data and applications were either mission-critical or business-critical. With such a large percentage of data and applications deemed critical to function, implementing and maintaining a disaster recovery strategy is more important than ever.