Disaster Recovery is something that can be critical to every business, but not every business has a good DR plan. Heck, I would be willing to bet that a lot of SMBs don’t even have a plan that is made up of much more than “fix the problem”. A large reason for this is designing a good, versatile DR environment is not cheap. Not every organization has the money to lay out for equipment, facilities, maintenance, etc. ...
Imagine a world where you don’t need to worry about the security of your data. Concerns such as malicious attackers, trojan horses, and insider threats are non-existent. Doesn’t that sound nice? Of course it does, but let’s face it, that isn’t the real world. Quite the opposite in fact. Most organizations are constantly under attack, and not necessarily just from the outside. The good news is that Skyport Systems is aiming to be your best friend in defense. ...
Skyport Systems, founded in 2013, will be participating in its second Tech Field Day event at TFD 15. While reading up on Skyport Systems, I was immediately reminded of the “good old days” when having an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) was state of the art. After taking a look at the SkySecure system, I immediately felt like I was comparing a Model T to a Ford Mustang. SECURITY IN A BOX Let’s dive a bit deeper into what SkySecure is. Skyport bills the solution as “Cloud Managed, Secure, Hyperconverged”. Yes, there are a lot of buzzwords in there, but it is also a very fair description. To start, SkySecure is a hardware appliance that you rack in your DC. After that, you can power it up, provide internet access, and you’ll see the new device appear in your cloud management portal. For those folks who are looking for a no-touch solution, centralized management such as this is about as good as it gets. ...
In a market with multiple options available for hyperconverged infrastructure, Scale Computing is no new face. Making their sixth appearance at a Tech Field Day event is a fairly good indication that they must be doing something right. Going into this, I was familiar with Scale primarily only in name, and not much deeper than that. Scale is a big player in the SMB HCI space, and I touch on why that likely is below. But that isn’t to say that they are a SMB-only solution. ...