You have probably been hearing a lot about “The Cloud”.  Everyone in the technology world is talking about it. The problem is that everyone seems to have a different definition.   The cloud is simply a group of servers, whether on your local site (Private Cloud), at one of your remote sites or a trusted 3rd party remote site.  You can store data, backups or run applications in the cloud.

There are many questions to consider when looking at cloud services.

• What products and services are best to move to the cloud?
• Who has your data? How fast can it be retrieved?
• How does the speed of the internet connection effect productivity?
• Can your company still operate if your internet connection is down?
• How does an outage at your provider effect your company’s operation?

This new offering will back up all your PCs and Windows servers to a local cloud, and then replicate this backup to an off-site cloud.  If a mirrored Windows machine fails, a virtual image of the machine can be created on the private cloud within a few minutes.  As your PC’s age and become unreliable, they can be replaced by “Thin Clients” while the same OS runs on the local cloud. Since all the PC’s files are being replicated in the cloud, data can be restored very quickly if there is a simple hardware failure or site disaster.

If you have any questions about how cloud technology can be applied to your business please send an email to tsawyer@acumengroup.us.