30 March 2021

Be a Netflix, Not a Blockbuster




Digital Transformation can be a daunting undertaking for CEOs to consider and prioritize in their organizations, but the alternative is much, much worse. When businesses fail to meet changing market expectations, clients will go where their needs can be met. The internet has shrunk the world, which means you no longer have the benefit of [...]
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13 July 2020

How to Avoid Gotchas When Creating Your Disaster Recovery Plan




In this blog, we are looking back at our BCDR Webinar series and focusing on our webinar that covered how to avoid gotchas when creating your disaster recovery plan. Follow the link below to view the full recording and learn more about developing a clear, effective disaster recovery plan. Overview Developing a disaster recovery plan [...]
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6 July 2020

A Practical Guide To Developing A BCDR Plan




In our blog today, we are looking back at our Disaster Recovery webinar series which focused on a practical guide to developing a BCDR Plan. As we continue to navigate the new normal within the COVID environment, we are seeing more businesses who need help ensuring their business data can weather any crisis or emergency [...]
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12 May 2020

Top 3 VPN Best Practices For Remote Employees




As companies make the rapid transition to a remote workforce, many organizations are pivoting to implementing a VPN as a means for their employees to securely access their workload. A virtual private network, or VPN, provides security by encrypting the data you send and receive when you’re working online, but misuse can threaten your infrastructure’s [...]
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30 March 2020

Adapting to the New Work from Home Requirements with VPN and Terminal Servers




In our current environment due to the spread of COVID-19, many businesses – some of whom have never implemented a telework policy – are now forced to enable their employees to work from home in order to keep their business on track. The good news is businesses can leverage VPN and remote terminal servers to [...]
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25 March 2020

The Top Three Things to Consider When Developing a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan




Now more than ever, organizations need sound plans for business continuity and disaster recovery to ensure they can weather any crisis or emergency that may come its way. Business continuity and disaster recovery plans, which are both strongly related, will ensure your organization will remain operational after an adverse event. With organizations facing many challenges [...]
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11 March 2020

In Focus: A Deep Dive Into Our Federal Agency Case Study




In our new series, “In Focus” we will take a deeper dive in our case studies featuring our wide variety of clients to give you a closer look at Data Canopy’s capabilities. In this first post, we look at our federal agency client. The contract was awarded to a prime GSA contractor with an IT [...]
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11 August 2017

Getting Ready for a Workload Migration? Consider This First.




Workload migration is the current buzzword for physical to virtual (P2V) or virtual to virtual (V2V) data transfer. It’s the act of moving data from one location to another. Whatever you call it, if done right it can add great benefit to the business by helping to save costs and provide much needed protection for […]

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12 May 2017

Is Your Virtual Environment Part Walking Dead?




If you think that your infrastructure is fully optimized and operating at peak efficiency, you might want to check again. A recent research study conducted by Stanford University and Anthesis Group researchers has found that 30% of virtual servers (all of them) and one-quarter of physical servers are zombies having had no activity in the preceding […]

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22 February 2017

4 Tips for End of Life Planning Success




End of life planning is important because it serves as the technical team’s next three to five-year road map and there is typically no major deviation from that plan. This is very similar to how a baseball team has to build a team. They must pick and choose which free agents they sign and when [...]
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19 October 2016

Colocation and Disaster Recovery Save Insurance Firm $1M in Yearly Operating Costs




Like many businesses this $2B insurance firm’s infrastructure had aged and they were interested in upgrading their technology and colocation solutions so they issued a request for proposal. As part of their due diligence in responding to the RFP, Data Canopy interviewed the stakeholders at the insurance firm to more deeply understand its pains and business goals. What we identified […]

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27 April 2016

3 Tips to Get Your IT Consolidation Off to a Great Start




Sure, IT consolidation is an excellent way to reduce costs and improve efficiency of your IT resources. Let’s do it. But what do they say about failing to plan? Consolidating servers, databases, and more can be a bit of tightrope walk to navigate not only technical and budgetary considerations but also business goals and even […]

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22 March 2016

Four Reasons to Review Your Current Hosting Contracts Today




The average data center client stays with their colocation provider for 5-10 years. If service is great and your needs are met, that’s great! But even so in 5-10 years, heck in 2 years, the market can shift pretty significantly and you might not be getting the best price or service any longer. Pricing fluctuates, […]

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28 December 2015

Steps to a Successful Data Center Consolidation




You’ve no doubt heard the tales of successful data center consolidations taking an organization from 23 servers to 2 or seen the lofty initiatives put forth by the federal government to save billions of dollars. What many of these stories don’t include though are details on how to successfully tackle a consolidation project. While the […]

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2 December 2015

4 Ways Enterprises Are Failing to Support IT Transformation




Often in business, as in life, we presume that because everyone is talking about how wonderful something is that everyone must be doing it and – we fear – doing it better than we are. This goes for everything from participating in grueling triathlons and flawless family vacations to undertaking a successful IT transformation. In […]

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24 November 2015

Prepare for 2016: 3 Considerations for Keeping Your IT Budget in Check




Your IT strategy should not be a Ron Popeil, “set it and forget it” undertaking. What worked for you last year may not work for you next year and simply adjusting the budget to accommodate for new hires and end of life hardware won’t cut it. As you look to 2016, there are several actions […]

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