Considering an Office Move? Don’t be Left “Disconnected.”

By 3coast on July 14, 2009

I’ve had more than one conversation with a client that started like this…“Oh, by the way, we’ll be moving our office in two to three months.” This should be music to my ears since we’re in the business of supporting our client’s technology needs. However, office relocation can easily become ...

Disaster Recovery Toolkit: Can your Email Server Weather the Storm?

By 3coast on June 9, 2009

If you were unfortunate enough to experience Hurricane Ike, how did your email server fare? Not everyone can afford to keep their servers in a nice, safe datacenter or colocation facility. Does that mean your business is subject to your building’s physical power or Internet connection? The answer to that ...

Disaster Recovery Toolkit: Business Must Go OnDR & Colocation

By 3coast on June 4, 2009

Business continuity and disaster recovery planning are all about a company’s ability to survive and continue operations in the face of physical and environmental events, such as natural disasters (fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc), network outages, disgruntled employees and computer viruses. Critical business technologies – telephone, email, Internet, corporate applications, databases ...

Disaster Recovery Toolkit: Stay in Touch After the Storm

June 1, 2009

Hurricane season is officially here. Businesses are now planning and refining their disaster recovery and business continuity plans to prepare for potential disruptions. Companies need to make sure and investigate a few specific areas – offsite backup, colocation, email continuity and data recovery. A voice-over IP (VoIP) telephone network and ...

Disaster Recovery Toolkit: Knock, Knock. Who’s There? Your Data

By 3coast on May 26, 2009

Without access to your business’s mission critical data, productivity as a whole could come to a screeching halt. For years, businesses have relied on tape backups to secure their primary data repository. While the technology associated with these types of solutions continues to become more refined, one aspect of this process ...

Hurricane Season is Here. Is Your Business Ready?

By 3coast on May 21, 2009

It’s that time of year again…hurricane season is upon us. With the effects of Hurricane Ike still fresh in Houston’s memory, what are the lessons learned when it comes to securing the integrity of your business? While history continues to repeat itself, a disaster’s long-term effects on a business can be ...

Three Opportunities to Capitalize on Your Business Continuity Plan

By 3coast on May 14, 2009

Smart companies along the U.S. southern coasts are testing their business continuity and disaster recovery plans in preparation for the upcoming storm season. For those who have outgrown their plans or struggle with outdated procedures, refining the plan is a top priority. Companies invest time, money and resources to create solid ...

Broken ERP Implementations: Putting Business Back Together

By 3coast on April 14, 2009

Remediating a failed ERP implementation may be the answer to salvaging a broken, stalled or underperforming enterprise system. Each type of implementation failure and subsequent remediation project is approached with a different strategy. The goal is to economically get business operations and technology back in sync, quickly and effectively. Broken implementations are ERP systems ...

Business Process Interruption…Could it be your ERP? (Part 1)

By George Black on April 2, 2009

Companies with complex business processes have come to rely on technology to automate, digitize and streamline operations. In many instances, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system – SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics – has been implemented to provide this support. ERP systems were designed to automate and integrate disparate ...

Network Security: Botnets, Trojans and Worms…OH MY!

By 3coast on March 6, 2009

Are you working on a Zombie computer? If you are, you might not know it. Today, so many variants of malicious software (malware) are present on the Web, one can hardly keep up. Trojans, viruses, spyware, hijackers, rootkits, backdoors, worms, crimeware…..have you had enough yet? I wouldn’t be surprised if a ...

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