Two Promos worth mentioning this month!
Now trough Dec. 1, 2015 Airespring is offering an extra 50% on the port of an MPLS network of 5 nodes or more.
*SPIFFS now available on renewals.
* (1-3 yr terms)
Now through Dec. 1 2015: Broadvoice, a leader in Cloud services offers a very competitive Promo!
Every business must confront the topic of disaster preparedness. It’s also one of those things we must maintain and keep up-to-date whether it’s back-up services or emergency strategies. While we realize it may end up on a business’ back-burner, people quickly find out it’s completely necessary when it’s necessary.
There are several ways to approach your businesses’ disaster plans in the Cloud. Cloud disaster recovery is becoming an easy, cost-effective, and now more secure than ever plan to keep your company from being tragically effected by an unforeseen disaster (loss of data, security breach, loss of business connectivity and continuity during a natural disaster).
Where to begin: Telecom Agents can help determine what plan is best for your business needs. Of course we’d encourage this route, we’re Telecom agents, but seriously this is your best bet to end up with your best plan of action.
First, you must determine your level of need. This isn’t necessarily how likely you are to e effected as much as it is how much it could hurt you and how much you have to lose. No business can afford to lose to a disaster- many will eventually end of bankrupt! Benefit versus risk is a ration we deal with often in business. Of course this is off-set by how much a business can afford to spend on a disaster recovery plan.
This is why we’ve taken special interest in disaster Cloud Recovery services. There are so many to choose from. Again, that’s why we’re the Agents- we’ve got a handle on this for you. We can help! Just to give you an idea…
Evolve IP Cloud Recovery plan, DRaas suite, entails data protection and automated options for business continuity, match level of risk and spend accordingly. Customers not only know where their data is backed up, they also know how and when they will have it restored.
They suggest 3 aspects to consider:
Evolve IP’s DRaaS Suite products are designed to deliver a wide range of RPO/RTO service levels, with RPO’s measured in seconds, not hours. The Evolve IP DRaaS Suite includes:
Airespring will tell you ‘Downtime can cost you’. They also provide services, such as Managed Failover, for just the occasion- you know, the one you weren’t planning for.
Managed Failover provides a separate, redundant network connection in the event your primary connection fails. While the AireSpring Network already includes multiple levels of redundancy to ensure high availability for our Cloud and Voice Network or private MPLS Networks, Managed Failover offers an additional level of high availability connectivity at your location.
Other features include:
Integra already has an excellent security portfolio, but they just took it one giant leap forward…again. Leveraging Arbor Networks’ technology, Integra will provide fully managed, off-premises protection for its customers’ network infrastructure and online websites.
What’s DDoS? Distributed Denial of Service are attacks in service that affect business, productivity, reliability, and revenue.
Why does a business care? Most of us are aware that hackers are becoming quite sophisticated and attack any size business. These attacks can steal your identity/ information, flood your online flow disrupting business, and break past traditional firewalls.
How does this service help? Filters malicious traffic to allow for clean flow to come through.
THE KICKER!! Integra absorbs the malicious traffic so your Internet bandwidth is not effected.
What are the other benefits?
24/7 security and industry-leading services.
Choice of plans that specifically coincide with each business’ goals for optimal security.
Secures from all angles and in every aspect of business from email to filtering of online anomalies.
Cloud technology isn’t another one-size-fits-all approach to a better way of doing business. It certainly is a universally applied solution, but one that means very different things to various types and sizes of business. The beauty of the Cloud is how it can fit into any size and virtually all types of businesses, which seems as if I’m contradicting what I’ve just mentioned (and the title of this post). But the difference is Cloud technology has several ways in which it can be utilized within a business- some are heavily dependent on it because it saves money, it’s functional to the start-up business or perhaps it’s the only way to go to connect remote employees or enhance communication between employees and clients on various devices. Both large and SMB’s are benefitting greatly, but only when they apply the Cloud in a way that fits their needs, as far as their crew is trained, how comfortable with the security available and put into place, and as much or as little of their business operating within the Cloud- that’s how businesses are doing it.
All businesses have affordable security technology available to them so they can utilize the BYOD experience (How? Ask us at NWMAP). Today it’s all about the strategy for how it can specifically work for a business. Helpful strategies include:
Questions about HOW the Cloud might work for you? What’s available to make it work for you? https://nwmap.com/contact-us
Cloud technology was one of the most talked about trends in 2013. Even so, there are businesses questioning whether this technology is the right fit for them. As an agent, this is an opportunity to open up a dialogue, talk to clients about their existing business systems, phone lines, Internet, marketing campaigns, and their strategies for the upcoming year. Introduce new ideas they may not be taking advantage of such as video conferencing. When businesses begin thinking about the Cloud it typically means they are looking to advance their business to the next level and/or they’re trying to save money. All of which a Telecom Agent can assist with.
Agents need to know how a business can advance or update current systems. Sometimes the Cloud fits and other times perhaps not.
The Cloud and the agent:
Let’s make a commitment to elevate businesses in the New Year!
Happy New Year from your NWMAP Team!