Considering the Cloud? - Overview

On the Houston Business Executives "Executive Hour" Radio show on Houston's 1070 AM, Lance Griffith, CEO of CAP5, discusses with the show host, R.D. Yoder, Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud Computing to help the general business audience understand all the buzz-words flying around and whether or not it's worth considering one over the other for their IT Infrastructure.

Now it's time to consider a Private cloud...

In an article on CAP5's PAPER.LI Site april 15th, 2012, called 7 Things to Consider before Building a Private Cloud, the author RWW talks about the below 7 points.  I am going to expound on these 7 Points over the next 7 post and talk about knowledge and experiences CAP5 has regarding each of these points with our client's Privae Clouds that CAP5 hasbuilt for them. 

Here are RWW's "7 Things to Consider Before Building a Private Cloud":

1. Workload and Infrastructure Interaction
2. Security
3. Latency
4. User Experience
5. Cost
6. Automation
7. Cloud Enablement

Please refer to the Article by RWW when reading the series "Considering the Cloud" over the next few articles

Backups Don't Matter As Much As Recoveries!

Just a quick post today but it's an important one. 

I asked a gentleman the other day, "what is most important to you about your backup solution?" His reply, "that I can recover my data in the event of a hardware loss."

CORRECT ANSWER!

Here are some other questions you should further ask yourself:

• Are you able to restore the data that you have been backing up? 
• Are you testing to insure that the data is making it to the backup media?
• Is the backed up data good for long periodds of time and does it remain on the media you use to back up your data?
• If you loose your hardware that you are backing up or it is destroyed, what is your contingency for having additional hardware to restore the data that you have backed up on? 

These are just a few questions.  When CAP5 does an analysis for a customer in regards to a backup solution, we asks many question more along the lines of  "how will you get your business back up and running in the event of any type of failure! 

Food for thought!

SOME OF THE CAP5 CLOUD SERVICES

CAP5 - Cloud Offerings!

In our CAP5 BLOG series of "Live In the Now! Power over IT!" CAP5 Technology Solutions presents 3 of our Cloud Service Offerings to our customers and prospects -

• CAP5 OneCloud© Monitoring
• CAP5 OneCloud© Remote Support
• CAP5 OneCloud© Backups/Restore

As defined by Wikipedia, Cloud Computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and virtualized... services are provided over the Internet... This means pro-activeness, efficiency and fixed price rather than the traditional "Reactive Slow Time and Material (T&M) Services".

CAP5 OneCloud© Monitoring - CAP5 adds a secure robot on Windows-based Servers and Workstations that reports back to CAP5 Standard, Critical and Emergency system information. This allows CAP5 service personnel to understand real-time (rather than after-the fact) to proactively resolve computing problems before they occur.

CAP5 OneCloud© Remote Support - One of the tools that is installed in the above CAP5 OneCloud© Monitoring package is instant access to systems to provide proactive Standard, Critical and Emergency service. Depending on the nature of the service required, CAP5 personnel will resolve problems before they occur in a stealth, non-intrusive manner or by logging into the customers systems and taking control of the users system session.

CAP5 OneCloud© Backup/Restore - Data Protection means everything! CAP5 OneCloud© Backup/Restore provides safe and secure off site data backups to ensure that MS Window-based and Mac-based Servers and Workstations have a redundant repository of ALL your system's important data. In the event of hardware loss or damage, simply replace or fix the hardware and restore the data to its original state.

Our Motto: Power over IT!

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(713) 979-5280

Are MAC really secure? What's the Word on the Street?

Word on the street and even with us geeks is:

"Buy a Mac and you'll never get hacked!" 
(do you believe this or not... leave comment)

Well, "never" is a strong word... I never believed this and after reading an article in Time Business & Tech by Harry McCracken (sounds like a pun in the name but that's really his name), I see that even the geeks (Harry's a geek) can't believe it's happening on their Macs! (See Time Business & Tech, June 2nd, 2011)

Hacking, Phishing, Trojans, Viruses, etc... aren't just happening to Windows users... It happens to everyone! Quite honestly, I think that its happening more to Macs than the users think. The worst attacks are the ones that go undetected "under the hood". A Mac user tends to be more savvy so where they are vulnerable is the fact that they are having things happen in places in their computer that happens to be more stealth because they are typically not expecting it. One hack on your contact list and someone owns all your contacts. One Trojan Horse on your login and suddenly the hackers in your bank account.

This is all my opinion but I'm just saying... "I wouldn't go without security on any of my computers! Including my Mac!"

By all means! For any security questions or solutions, feel free to give CAP5 a call for us to come out, for free, and just take a look at what you are doing and make suggestions... It never hurts to know what you don't know! It's certainly safer to be safe than sorry!

CAP5 Technology Solutions
www.capfive.com
713-979-5280
sales@capfive.com (fastest response!)

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