Disaster Recovery: Hype or Reality?
Disaster Recovery Service is all the rage for the marketing plans of IT Service Providers nowadays. "Ask about our complete Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Services." Do they want you to ask? Really?
Before you purchase one of these plans, check out your service provider - it's really easy to buy boilerplate advertising copy from a marketing consultant. It's another thing altogether to actually recover part or all of your IT Infrastructure. When they say "Ask about our total Disaster Recovery solution" you should take them up on the offer. Here are a few of the questions you should ask:
- Have they ever actually done Business Impact Analysis of server applications? Can they show you an example?
- Do they know how much it costs your business when a given app is down?
- Do they know what Recovery Time Objective means?
- How about Recovery Point Objective?
- Do they have an actual written Business Continuity plan they can show you?
- Does their plan include a Disaster Recovery kit onsite and offsite? What's in the kit?
- Have they ever actually tested a Disaster Recovery? How often? Was it successful?
- Have they ever successfully recovered all or part of an IT Infrastructure?
- Do they have real-world experience using Disaster Recovery tools and restoring infrastructure?
Real World ExperienceP3iSystems engineering staff have nearly 30 years of technology experience including over 15 years of data center experience in Fortune 500 companies. That experience includes real-world disaster recovery planning for hundreds of servers and the actual recovery of dozens of servers and applications of varied types, from email to ERP to Document Management to Data Warehouses in disaster recovery tests and real world disasters where loss of servers or data meant a business absolutely, positively had to get their data back. More than a Marketing SloganFor your business you need more than a marketing slogan - you need someone who has the real-world experience with business impact analysis, disaster recovery planning, testing and execution and business continuity best practices. At P3iSystems our engineers have real world experience from working in Fortune 500 Enterprises - and we bring that experience to bear for your small business.
P3iSystems: Enterprise-class Technology Services for Small Business.
Really.
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Server Hosting In The Cloud - What does it mean?
I've been intending to write about this for some time, but have been so busy with the doing I haven't had time for the writing.
Cloudsourcing means hosting part or all of your applications or even server infrastructure on Virtual Server Instances which run on the robust, commoditized hardware of large Internet presence companies like Amazon. If you have a Yahoo or Gmail account, you've cloudsourced your own email, which nowadays is very common.
Application Cloudsourcing Companies like Google and Zoho have gone further and provided hosted apps for all office productivity needs, from word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, to Customer Relations Management. What's really remarkable is that the apps are free for small groups of users, and very reasonably priced for business users.
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SMBs Unconcerned About Data Protection
Just a couple of years ago an AT&T Survey showed that 24 percent of small business owners are unconcerned about computer and online data security, and that 10 percent took no action to protect their data.
About a third of small businesses have an employee who have computer security as part of their job, and more than 90 percent perform some sort of data backups. Only half of those back up data every day, however.
At the time of the survey only about 7 percent used Internet-based online backups. |
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Hi there! This is Rob Mitchell, founder and CTO of P3iSystems. One of the reasons I started this company is that I see a lot of Small-to-Medium businesses that may be thriving in many ways, but are letting their technology slide. It's a truism that technology can't drive your business - your vision, your passion, and your business model do that. Technology can help you systematize what you do, replicate your efforts, and make you more consistent and faster in your execution, enabling you to grow your business at a greater rate than you would be able to otherwise. |
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Current (2008) IRS regulations allow the deduction of the entire acquisition cost (up to $125k) for the purchase of computer equipment and off the shelf software. You may qualify for up to a $125k deduction from your federal taxes.
Get more information on the Section 179 Deduction through these links:
IRS FAQ on Section 179 Deduction
http://www.irs.gov/faqs/faq11-1.html
IRS Publication 946, Electing the Section 179 Deduction
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p946/index.html
Wikipedia Article on Section 179 Deduction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/179_%28Internal_Revenue_Code_Section%29 P3iSystems doesn't sell computers or software; we can't benefit directly from your choosing to exercise this deduction. If you need skilled professional help deploying and configuring your computers and software, contact P3iSystems and we can help. Sorry for the legal weasel words, but at P3iSystems we're technology experts - we're not tax experts. We can give you some information but the final decision to elect the Section 179 deduction you should base on advice from your accountants. This article is provided for information only with no implied or explicit warranty. We hope it's helpful to you. |
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