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A world cup success for C Infinity connected online backup

Caitriona — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:34:07 +0000

I am always amazed and delighted to hear customer stories, but this was a score!

An online backup customer of ours, who is based in the UK, returned from South Africa a very happy person. While at the world cup he met an old business acquaintance and was introduced to a new prospect who he was able to wow with a presentation from his laptop that he left in London! He recovered the presentation using connected secure access, and managed to fit a business meeting into his trip!

So England may not have got their result, but he may well have!

Happy Birthday Zignals

Caitriona — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:38:16 +0000

We want to wish Zignals the very best on their second anniversary!

Zignals continues to evolve with new features and better performance. But, in addition, Zignals tells us they are the only site on the web where sharing your financial expertise puts money in your pocket. With no hidden costs, no upfront fees, no charges to consider; everything is now in place to help you earn with Zignals.

We are looking forward to working with them into the future and wish them a very happy birthday.

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A busy week at Epicenter 2010

Gavin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:38:52 +0000

Last week we attended Epicenter 2010 held at Trinity College in Dublin. It was a great opportunity for us to meet some really talented software developers.

Epicenter allowed us to get a better understanding of what software developer needs were when it came to SaaS hosting but also with data protection including encryption and remote data backups.

Barrry Alistair & Caitriona Lynch.

A big thanks to Barry Alistair from Irishdev.com who did a brilliant job with organising the event but also for looking after our team throughout the week.

Photo by Craig Murphy

Apple iPad up for grabs at epicenter

Caitriona — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:18:06 +0000

C infinity, saas hosting experts, are proud to sponsor and speak at epicenter this week at Trinity College.

Come along and meet some of our team who will be available to discuss our services and how it could help you. We have an Apple iPad to give away so meet us for a chat and see how you could be the lucky winner of the iPad.

Dont forget, if you develop an apps we can host it!

Host SharePoint 2010 With C Infinity

Aidan — Fri, 28 May 2010 10:13:55 +0000

C Infinity is today launching a service where you can host your very own SharePoint 2010 servers in our cloud infrastructure. We will work with you on specifying and customizing an infrastructure that meets your needs.

SharePoint 2010 will be launched in Ireland next week. It provides businesses with the best collaboration solution available. There is a lot to this product and you can learn about it on the Microsoft website. The best thing about SharePoint is how it brings people together so that they can work as one. Partners, distant co-workers, customers, can all work with you in an environment that you control.

This means you need to place the SharePoint 2010 infrastructure and services in a place that you can trust, that is easily accessed, and can meet your scalability and security requirements.

Using the C Infinity cloud you can have your infrastructure rapidly available, easily accessible to the people that you choose, no matter where they are. You won’t need to purchase hardware, worry about licensing, or spend a lot of time deploying the solution. That’s what C Infinity is for!

ICS & EuroCloud Ireland Seminar On Cloud Computing

Caitriona — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:01:21 +0000

EuroCloud Ireland and The Irish Computer Society are organising a seminar on “Cloud Computing – climate change for legal contracts?” on Thursday July 1st at 7.45am. The Location will be Dublin City Centre, the venue will be confirmed in advance of July 1st.

Philip Nolan examines the legal implications of cloud computing for your business. He looks at its likely impact on your existing legal responsibilities and relationships. Philip will focus on how to address contractual matters such as service provider liability, data protection and retention as well as capacity/availiability issues and their impact.

Philip is a partner and head of Mason Hayes+Curran’s Commercial Department, as well as being a board member of EuroCloud Ireland.

You can register for the event here.

Exciting New IT opportunities – We’re Hiring Again

Caitriona — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:05:56 +0000

We are currently recruiting a number of high calibre engineers with experience in data centre, infrastructure-as-a-service or platform-as-a-service environments.

Preferably someone with experience in a customer facing role.

Required skills:

Windows Server 2008 R2/2008, Windows Server 2003
Virtualization: Hyper-V or VMware ESX
Microsoft System Center VMM and Operations Manager 2007/2007 R2
Terminal Services, SQL Server, IIS, Active Directory
Backup solutions

Preferred skills:

Linux (SUSE or RedHat)
Cisco networking (routers, switches and firewalls)
Technical writing and proposals

Interested in working with us? Send us an email: info@cinfinity.ie

Weedle Goes Live

Aidan — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:19:22 +0000

We’re delighted to see that one of our customers, Weedle , went live last night at a launch event in Dublin. Weedle provides a social network where you can advertise your skills or find someone with a particular skillset Weedle helps you get found by people who need your skill. It’s more than just simple recruitment; if you’re a tree surgeon then you can let people know of your availability. If you’re looking for a plumber you can find one on Weedle. Weedle connects people with people.

We met with Weedle for the first time during the winter. They were still developing their product but they knew what they wanted. They wanted to work with a hosting company that would be their IT infrastructure partner. Weedle wanted to focus on developing and marketing their product and not become some accidental IT company. The match was perfect because that’s what we do.

Weedle have made great use of our monitoring solution and our ability to expand their resources in a rapid manner. During their beta launch we were able to monitor their systems and quickly adjust the infrastructure to meet the massive and unexpected demand.

It’s been a pleasure to work with a passionate and professional company like Weedle. We wish them the best and look forward to them being a huge success.

Update release for Connected Backup Software

Gavin — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:05:52 +0000

We are currently in preparation for a mass deployment of the latest release of our PC & Laptop backup service, Connected 8.4.0.5. This new release brings enhancements to interoperability, improvements to deployment and fixes for known issues.

No action is required for customers at this point as the update is 100% automated. The next time you connect into our data centre the software will be downloaded and installed. There is no need to configure the update as your backup settings will be maintained and will work as normal.

Over the next week I will be monitoring the deployment, the status of customer’s backups and ensuring everyone gets the usual high level of support from my team.

If you have any questions or need assistance with your backups please don’t hesitate to open a support ticket or contact me directly.

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How Often Should I Backup My Data

Gavin — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:34:34 +0000

Whenever we take on a new client we often get asked how often should I backup my data? Although we treat every client different due to their business requirements the answer for this question is usually the same, as often as possible.
Why you should backup as often as possible

Let’s say, for an example, you perform one nightly backup of your data after business hours. The next day at 4pm your server decides to crash wiping all the business data but you have a backup of the previous night so everything is ok right? Nope it’s not and here is why: if you have to roll back to a previous day’s backup you have just lost full days’ worth of work. Depending on your business, this could be a lot of lost revenue.

Performing multiple backups throughout the day gives you the opportunity to roll back your business to a specific point in time, usually within a matter of minutes. If your business is performing manual backups then it will be difficult to perform multiple backups throughout the day. This is why you’ll need an automated backup solution.

Our server backup service is not only fully automated but it has the ability to perform backups of your server every 15 minutes (continuous backups). When disaster does strike you’ll have multiple restore points to choose from.

Will multiple backups cost more?

We do know of other backup providers that charge extra for performing multiple backups and also for their data retention rates. This can grow very fast due to the design of their backup system. A number of our new customers have come forward to complain about this practice and have even been suspected that we’ll do the same; We certainly do not.

As our backup service performs incremental backups, only the changes to your data is backed up, which, depending on your business, can be very small. Our backup system can perform 96 backups per day without additional charges on your account. This is because you get billed for monthly storage rates, not daily.