Disaster recovery (DR) planning is essential for active businesses. We’ve written a lot about it here on this blog. Usually it’s about internet services and websites and data services. But what happens if your phone system goes down? That can be a real disaster too. And it’s especially vulnerable now that many businesses have moved […]
Attestation confirms the company’s commitment to unprecedented availability ASHEVILLE, NC – June 20, 2019 – Total Uptime™ announced today that it has successfully completed its third consecutive SOC 2 Type 2 attestation highlighting the company’s continued commitment to security, availability and confidentiality. The certification further validates the resiliency and operational excellence of Total Uptime’s global […]
Internet technology continues to change at a rapid pace, but the fundamentals are the same. Most networks are still using TCP/IP. Networks are designed and analyzed using protocol stacks. And data packet switching is still the lifeblood of the network. In this post, we take a look at some fundamental concepts in networking that the […]
What is external monitoring? In a general sense, it means regularly checking on something to find out what is happening. It’s a way to gather information. In a large network, it means observing and recording data from a wide variety of devices and applications. We should clarify that monitoring and management are not the same […]
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, they say. You should always have a plan B. Companies spend millions on their data connections, but even the best of them can fail. And what happens when you don’t have adequate backup systems in place? Well, take a look at our survey of outages in 2018 […]
Your network is everything. At least it seems that way. You can offer the most wonderful services in the world, but if your customer can’t access them, you’re dead in the water. Let’s face it. Most businesses suffer when the internet goes down, or when critical network services are not available. You’ve probably experienced the […]
Despite whatever bad news you read in this article, we encourage you to remain positive. It’s just human nature to have a curious interest in the calamities of others. So if that’s what gives you your kicks, feel free to enjoy our 2nd annual dispatch on some of the most interesting outages of the past […]
In 2013, a U.S. military judge sentenced PFC Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison. His crime, as everyone knows, was leaking confidential information. Manning illegally downloaded data to a CD and gave it to Wikileaks. The intentional release of sensitive information is just one way that data loss occurs within an organization. Sometimes it […]
Imagine that a smooth operator convinces Barney Fife — the famous sheriff’s deputy on TV — to unlock a Mayberry jail cell. Barney has the keys. He has the authority. He wants to do the right thing, but he’s easily confused and manipulated. Your web browser has authority too. It can do a lot of […]
Total Uptime Privacy Policy Last Updated: May 23, 2018 Total Uptime Technologies LLC (“Total Uptime”) respects your concerns about privacy. References in this Privacy Policy to “Total Uptime”, “we”, “us”, and “our” are references to the Total Uptime entity responsible for the processing of your personal information, which generally is the Total Uptime entity that […]