Are you attending the International Legal Technology Association Conference and Expo this year?

 

If so, be sure to stop by our panel discussion on Cloud Disaster Recovery. Join our CEO Michael Kemps, CTO Mike Paul and Senior Systems Engineer Sonny Sheth as they review the key facets of cloud disaster recovery and best practices on implementation.

 

Topics: Cloud, Data Backups, Cloud Storage, Disaster Recovery

Many law firms and businesses put off creating and using a standardized workstation image. Instead, they use whatever operating system comes pre-configured on the computers they purchase. Sometimes they will install a clean operating system and configure each machine from scratch for each newly purchased computer. This is a mistake which can be both expensive and dangerous. Thankfully, your computer environment can be made more secure, and your IT costs can be reduced, by implementing a standard workstation image.

Topics: Technology Consulting, Data Backups, IT Tips, Disaster Recovery, 2FA, Imaging

Is hybrid storage right for your law firm or business? Are you familiar with it?

Topics: Data Backups, Cloud Storage, Disaster Recovery, Hybrid Storage, On-Premises Storage

According to the American Bar Association 2016 Legal Technology Survey Report, only 38 percent of lawyers are using cloud computing for tasks relating to their practice. Overall, 53 percent report that they do not use cloud computing at all while about 10 percent say they don’t know if they do or not.

 

In reality, these attorneys may not be aware that they’re probably already using the cloud but just don’t know it.

 

So what is the cloud, and why should you care?

Topics: Technology Consulting, Cloud, Data Backups, IT Tips, Cloud Storage, Disaster Recovery

When you consider the best place(s) to store your data – in the cloud, on-premises in your office or some hybrid of the two – what questions do you ask?

Topics: Cloud, Data Backups, Cloud Storage, Disaster Recovery, Network, Access Control, cybersecurity, Cybercrime

Where should your law firm's data be stored?

 

Topics: Technology Consulting, Cloud, Data Backups, IT Tips, Cloud Storage, Disaster Recovery, Webinars, cybersecurity, Cybercrime

When faced with hurricanes, earthquakes, geomagnetic storms and floods, law firms' data is safer in the cloud than anywhere else. Traditional data centers are built strong to protect against natural disasters, but when it comes time for your data to evacuate, it needs to have somewhere to go. The cloud offers that protection with multiple levels of redundancy across the world, so your data will survive even if one location is hit or damaged. Here are four scenarios the cloud protects your law firm from:

Topics: Cloud, Data Backups, Data Recovery, Cloud Storage, Disaster Recovery, cybersecurity, Partners, Microsoft

Storage choices are expanding almost as fast as is our ability to fill them up. Due to the mission-critical nature of what law firms store, they require reliability, fault tolerance and scalability. However, the price tag to add a few more terabytes of storage to a system can be daunting to some.  

 

Adding additional SAN nodes is the first and, for me, most obvious answer. 

 

Installing new SAN nodes can be added to a storage cluster with no downtime, giving law firms a seamless expansion in storage capacity. This was, after all, one of the reasons you bought SAN storage in the first place, right?

 

There are other options, though.

Topics: Training, Technology Consulting, Data Backups, Data Recovery, IT Tips, Cloud Storage, Disaster Recovery

As the end of the year rapidly approaches, we think back to the much-touted but over-hyped threat of the millennial bug destroying massive amounts of data and information. While we laugh at our overreaction 15 years ago, when it comes to information security, there is no true overreaction. Cyberattacks, earthquakes, fires, explosions, power outages and so many more events can immediately render your data unavailable — sometimes for good.

To mitigate that risk, we partner with Acronis to provide backup, disaster recovery and secure access solutions to our legal technology clients.

Topics: Malware, Managed Services, Data Backups, Cloud Storage, Partner Series, Disaster Recovery

From retailers and credit-ranking companies to government agencies and film production companies, the need for increased cybersecurity is on everyone's radar. Unfortunately, few are aware of the vulnerabilities cybercriminals exploit to attack, steal or otherwise compromise one's data — or, as in a case we confronted with the Town of Discovery Bay, hold the data for ransom.

Earlier this year, we worked with the Discovery Bay's Community Services District to remediate a ransomware incident. Thousands of their files were encrypted in mere seconds while a message appeared demanding hundreds of dollars in return for decryption.

Read our newest case study to learn more about ransomware, the Town of Discovery Bay's experience and how to protect yourself and your law firm from this increasingly popular cybercrime.

Topics: Security, Malware, Technology Consulting, Data Backups, Data Recovery, IT Tips

At Innovative Computing Systems, we truly value our partners. We look at their solutions as the “best of breed.” We would like to share both our confidence and their solutions by dedicating a “Partner Series” highlighting their importance to us and law firms. We’ll be holding webinars, posting blogs and case studies and otherwise showing off the expertise of our partners.

Topics: Security, Training, Malware, Technology Consulting, Cloud, Managed Services, Data Backups, Data Recovery, IT Tips, Cloud Storage, iManage, Windows 10, Office 2016, Word

Quite frequently we are asked to restore data for one reason or another – unfortunately, all too often we find that the firm does not have recent data available to restore. We are usually able to find another way to get them back into production, but it’s not always pretty. Paying careful attention to your data backup systems is critical – your backups are your last line of defense.

Topics: Cloud, Data Backups, Data Recovery