Information Is Everything

Some of the things Software-as-a-Service developers are rightly worried about are uptime and performance.  “How will my system perform when I deploy it?”  “What will happen during peak periods?”  “How will my system scale?”

Without the right tools we cannot manage performance or uptime.  We need information to make the right decisions and then to check if those decisions were indeed right after all. read more

Floods In Ireland Puts Business At Risk

Over the past number of days Ireland has been expericing heavy rain fall with many areas being hit with major flooding, such as Cork City. In the West the river Shannon was under alert as more rainfall was due and more flooding expected.

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The Staggering Costs Of Lost Laptops And What To Do About It

I recently read the results of a Ponemon Institute study which indicated that the average cost of a lost laptop was almost $50,000.

The cost was broken down into seven main drivers:

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Are You At Risk From Losing Your Tape Backup?

It’s not uncommon for a business in Ireland to use tape backups as a backup solution for their critical data. What is common though is the fear that some business owners have using a tape backup solution.

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It’s Time To Change Your Passwords To Something More Secure

You may have seen the recent news that a large security exploit has hit the web for web based email. Thousands of user’s passwords have been published online for services like Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Gmail and other email providers.

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Watching The Apprentice This Week

I was watching this week’s episode of TV’s “The Apprentice” with great interest this week because one of our partners, The Big Red Book, was being featured. In the show, the candidates for the job were split into two teams and asked to develop and propose a press marketing plan for the Big Red Book.

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Fault Tolerance & Hardware Support In Action

When we talk about hardware support contracts with the manufacturer we are being very serious. When we were planning our infrastructure we decided to do something unusual in the server hosting business; we decided to purchase hardware support contracts for all of our hardware to give us 4 hour on site responses by the manufacturer.

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The New Microsoft WebsiteSpark Program

We’ve enrolled in the Microsoft WebsiteSpark Program that has just been launched. By partnering with Microsoft we can better assist website developers who run a dedicated server hosting their client’s websites.

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Part 2: The C Infinity Private Cloud VS the Rest

In the first post in this article we looked at how you could get high levels of hardware fault tolerance with a “statefull” application such as a database and how it was very expensive.  In this post we will look at how the C Infinity private cloud can get the same results at a fraction of the cost and with greater functionality.

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Part 1: The C Infinity Private Cloud VS the Rest

I don’t blame anyone for being confused about the server hosting options that are out there.  It makes picking a mobile phone billing plan or reading a constitutional amendment look easy.  I thought I’d take a few minutes to explain what some of the options are in the market and compare them with the C Infinity private cloud.

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