Blogs

I have been blogging for a few months and I read an interesting stat the other day. About 80 percent of all blogs are abandoning in the first few weeks.

I believe that people don't realize that it takes a little bit of work to maintain a blog. They also think it is going to be some revolution in sales or sales calls if they start blogging.

All of this takes some times. I have found with most marketing it takes anywhere from 6 months to 12 months before you have a good gauge on the results you are getting.

If you start a blog, stick with it long enough to make a good decision and don't give up when you are building the blog up.

Diaster Recovery

We have had a bit of flooding in southeastern Wisconsin in June. We had major freeways shut down that caused major delays.

I had one client who could not get across town to access some of his buildings. It would take over 1 hour, what is normally a 5 minute ride. That client has a disaster recovery plan in place and was starting to work on getting redundancy in the network. They did not have to execute on the redundancy plan, but it was in place if they needed it.

I had another call where the building next door had a firewall. She got her server out, but I do not think she had a good backup or disaster plan.

The start of any disaster recovery is good planning. Not only do you have technology, but what about where people are going to work from?

We are holding a seminar on this subject that will discuss the planning along with some of the technology that goes along with the plan. If you want to attend, view this link here to sign up. Or Click on the link below.
http://www.jsotechnology.com/Seminar/August%20Disaster%20Recovery%20Seminar%20Invitation.pdf

Backup and Disaster Recovery

We have had some major flooding in Wisconsin this month. I had one client who could not get across town to a few of the buildings that they have computers in, one was a data center.

We have been working with them over the last few years on creating redundant data centers. They could have survived if the water took out the fiber communications lines.

Other business were not so lucky. A good start to any Disaster Recovery is to have a good plan in place. Without a plan that is tested at least once a year, you have no idea who should be doing what during a diaster and what systems need to be functioning first.

The other items people seem to forget about is where you are going to house people. If the building is gone, where are people going to work from?