Disasters will happen. With a Southern California locale, Compass Consulting is no stranger to earthquakes, wildfires and other natural disasters. Other regions of the country contend with hurricanes, tornadoes, and similar catastrophic events that can cripple a business’ fragile infrastructure in seconds. Sadly, this does not even begin to address manmade disasters – acts of…
Simply having a Disaster Recover (DR) Plan in place may not be enough to protect your business from looming disasters. Disasters are unpredictable, and waiting to test them in the midst of a real disaster spells, well, DISASTER. If your Disaster Recovery Plan has not been reviewed and tested you may be in for a…
While disasters are generally infrequent events, they do happen. Disasters may include natural, environmental, or even man-made events. In the event of a disaster it is imperative that your business is prepared and has a plan in place. A disaster recovery plan (DRP) will document the procedures to protect and recover business IT infrastructure, data,…
Compass Consulting proudly presents “Disaster Recovery”, the second episode of our new informative technology video series, Compass Tech TV. Created and produced by OneTwelve Productions, a Compass Consulting marketing and multi-media subsidiary, we invite you to take a glance into the importance of this dreaded topic, also known as “backups.” Disaster Recovery – or –…
Here’s an oft ignored fact: Document management software that doesn’t automatically handle the file naming, folder creation and storing of indexed documents will provide little benefit to an organization. Teaching staff proper file/folder naming conventions and the correct way to organize folder structure are good computer file management habits, but they are not a sustainable…
Disasters happen – we feel sadness and empathy, but think, “That’s never going to happen to me”? It’s just human nature… a biological imperative. Change the conversation… What is our business’s tolerance for downtime? What if we come in tomorrow morning and our main server is completely down? How long can our business operate without…
Citihosts, a cloud services, disaster recovery and hosting subsidiary of Compass Consulting, has recently added more enterprise-grade equipment to their data center operation. The new equipment further increases capacity, performance and redundancy, and includes enhanced security technologies, high-performance network gear and vast amounts of additional storage. In an exclusive interview with a Citihosts engineer who…
Many statistics have emerged about the percentage of businesses that ultimately fail after catastrophic data loss. Figures range from 40% to 95%. Regardless of which is more accurate, the odds are not good. Disasters that cause network downtime, or worse yet, unrecoverable loss of data, are one of the biggest risks to your company. With that…
If your servers went down today would you be able to restore them so you could continue to do business tomorrow? When your organization is down it costs you money and harms your reputation with your customers. No one thinks a disaster will happen to them, but your organization should have a plan in place…
