I am pleased to report that Radish Networks is now a Microsoft Cloud Services Provider (CSP). We are now able to offer direct billing and managed services for Microsoft hosted services including Azure and Office 365. Direct billing allows customers to reduce their number of small dollar invoices as we can now include Office 365 […]
Call the Cable Guy: Wireless just won’t cut it
The Register published a nice explanation of why offices still require cabled network connections. I think it’s readable by those without a lot of technical knowledge. Check it out here: http://m.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/01/cabling_is_good/ When a client is looking at a major change to their office space such as an expansion or a move the issue about network […]
FAQ: Veeam Cloud Connect – Offsite Backup for VMs
If you haven’t heard about Veeam Backup and Replication then you should definately check it out. Veeam B&R backs up virtual machines and provides useful restore tasks such as recovering individual Exchange objects (such as email, contacts, calendar events), Sharepoint files for a document library, as well as full VMs. About a month after we […]
Encryption on our managed SMB devices
A new customer asked us about the encryption capabilities of our NAS appliances which we use for our managed storage for SMB solution. Our 2015 appliances offer AES-256 encryption on shares. The files are encrypted using a key or key file which should be as long as possible. For customers interested in encrypting their data, […]
Managed servers – Maintain an offsite DFS
Distributed File System – another great application for a virtual private server DFS is remarkable technology that distributes files and folders over multiple replica servers. File servers that are part of a DFS replication group will maintain their own copy of every file including permissions, ownership, and modified times. Whenever a file is added or […]
Comparison of onsite and offsite storage
Should you save your data locally or using an internet service? There is no single right answer as every organization will have their own requirements and offer unique challenges. When deciding between the two, you must have a look at how much data you have and where your staff is accessing the data from. On-site […]