Biggest problem with the great cloud migration: getting
there.
I am a HUGE fan of moving what makes sense for your business to
the cloud and letting others worry about the maintenance and upkeep
of equipment and software. But here’s the catch, what happens to
the average company when their Internet goes down? You email, you
backups, your accounting software, and everything else that you
have trusted to be moved to the cloud is now inaccessible. Do you
send all your employees home and have them work there? Can you
trust your employees to not just goof of the rest of the day?
How to minimize your risks:
Get redundant Internet! Don’t be lazy about it and buy two T1
lines from the same vendor, because those will most likely both go
down at the same time. Buy a backup DSL or cable line into your
office. It will be worth the minimal monthly investment.
Buy a router / firewall that can handle it. We love SonicWALL
products at Strickland Networks. Most of the models automatically
handle dual Internet connections. Meaning if the primary is
unavailable, outbound traffic is automatically sent through the
second connection. But it gets better, many models you can add a
high availability unit as well. This gives you 2 SonicWALL
firewalls working in tandem to prevent downtime in the event of a
hardware failure as well. Now you could lose 1 firewall and 1
internet connection before becoming unproductive.
Need some more help:
Email or call us today. 817.224.2020
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