Technology is helping to save lives in emergency situations. This year, Americans have witnessed an almost non-stop wave of disastrous events. Back-to-back hurricanes in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, the recent mass-shooting in Las Vegas, wildfires that scorched the earth and decimated neighborhoods in California and here at home, in North Carolina, a recent wave of flash-floods and tornados damaged …
Security in the Cloud
When updating IT solutions, security is an immediate challenge that comes to mind in addition to cost and time. Today we’re going to take a closer look at the security risks associated with public, private, and on-premises solutions. When designing your IT solution, you’ll be choosing between them. With good security measures in place, the location of your data matters …
The Future of the Cloud
When you think about where you want your business to be in 5 years, you often consider where you want your technology to be as well. The way we handle our IT solutions has a direct impact on how we handle business, growth, and disaster preparation. How do we build solutions now that will work in the future? By building …
Adopting a Cloud Solution
As a Managed Services Provider (MSP), we work with customers to select the best services to support their IT and make it secure. It’s our job to know the difference between a trend and solutions worth adopting. In this cloud market, we’re an MSP that provides private and hybrid cloud solutions. Cloud solutions are efficient, secure, flexible, and serve as …
Hybrid IT: A Journey for You and the Modern MSP
In recent years, the cloud has emerged as the leading technology for delivering services across industries. How have cloud technology-as-a-service solutions come to dominate the market so quickly? The internet continues to improve and is the backbone of delivering cloud solutions anywhere. Cost-effective, high-speed networks and broadband used by individuals, small businesses, and enterprises. Server virtualization has dramatically reduced the …
Consider a “Cloud First” Service Provider
Why does the Modern MSP think ‘cloud first’ for its customers? The cloud is here to stay. It provides enormous benefits customers, especially the SMBs, that have never been realized in the technology world. But, what is the cloud? Quite simply, cloud computing means that premises-based IT systems, applications, and databases are hosted in one or more state-of-the-art datacenters managed …
How Well is Your Business Protected?
Planning for a catastrophic disaster should be part of your company’s Disaster Recovery plan. But what if you find out your plan isn’t enough and your mission-critical applications and workloads shut down? Today, organizations experiencing a total data center outage lose an average of $901,500 (Source: Data Center Dynamics). This doesn’t include intangibles like lost or corrupted data, damage to …
Accelerate Your Business with Infrastructure as a Service
The increasing pace of business is driving the need to develop, test, and use new applications faster, more securely and with greater flexibility. As a result, IT leaders are pressured to scale, reduce costs, and develop fluid processes. That’s a big challenge. As a result, companies are moving to more flexible, virtualized, and scalable cloud-based IT models. Infrastructure as a …
5 Things to Consider When Selecting a Cloud Provider
As the demand for cloud solutions increases, technology companies are lining up to fill the requirements. The search for a competent, secure, and dependable cloud provider can become overwhelming. You want to ensure your data and network are protected and that you select a company who can provide the solutions you need without breaking your budget. Here are 5 things …
Top Ten Technology Priorities for Local Government – Cloud Services
The Public Technology Institute recently released a list of top ten technology management and application priorities for local government in 2016. PTI asked local government technology executives to rank a list of priorities from one to ten. Carolinas IT has a solution for each of these technology priorities and we will explore how we can help you with each of …