We’re excited to announce our new partnership with Backblaze—bringing their Cloud Storage to businesses in North America and supporting Canadian companies that require data to remain within national borders.

As of Monday, September 16th, Opti9 Technologies is proud to have achieved the AWS Resilience Competency, specialized in Resilience Recovery, recognizing our expertise in helping customers enhance the availability and reliability of their critical cloud workloads. As an AWS Resilience Competency Partner, our services are rigorously validated by AWS to ensure we meet the highest standards as an AWS Services Partner, and uphold the established expertise.

With any IT environment, especially the public cloud, security is a top concern and priority. When leveraging the public cloud, one of the most important steps to ensuring a protected environment is recognizing the shared responsibility model, as it delineates the security obligations between the cloud provider and your organization.

In today’s era of digital transformation, organizations across the globe are under constant threat from a myriad of challenges ranging from cyber threats to human errors and natural disasters. Amazon Web Services (AWS) presents itself as a frontrunner in providing solutions to these challenges, but the true essence of resilience lies not just in adopting AWS, but harnessing its full potential.

Businesses today rely heavily on the cloud infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive innovation, enhance scalability, and streamline operations. However, with this reliance comes the imperative need to safeguard against potential disruptions that compromise business continuity and an organization’s reputation. This is where Disaster Recovery (DR) steps in as a critical component of any organization’s AWS strategy.

The AWS Snow Family is a service offering designed to assist customers in leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) closer to where their data is generated, primarily in sites where internet connection may not be viable. When used, clients can run applications with minimal delay and comply with data storage location requirements. The Snow Family includes Snowball Edge and Snowcone, which are designed for two main purposes: running applications in harsh conditions and moving data from remote places to AWS.

Happy Earth Day from Opti9! As we celebrate mother nature and all she gives us, it’s crucial to reflect on how business operations impact the environment, specifically in terms of our IT infrastructure. The shift towards cloud computing stands out as a game-changer for eco-friendliness, making it one of the most sustainable things an organization can implement.

Today, every organization has significant investments in their overall tech stack, both financially and operationally, and as technology evolves, it is crucial that we keep pace to ensure success. For many organizations, legacy applications house some of their most mission critical applications, and replacing or retiring them would be incredibly costly, monetarily and in terms of productivity. With application modernization, businesses can now skip the hassle of completely rebuilding applications.

When it comes to data management and disaster recovery, organizations continually seek innovative solutions to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and bolster resilience. While the standard out of the box tools work for most organizations, some need expanded control and capabilities. In these cases, centralized management is a logical solution that provides administrators with the ability to orchestrate complex IT environments from a single, unified interface.

According to Cybersecurity Ventures, the cost of cybercrime is expected to surge by 15 percent annually over the next five years, soaring to a staggering $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, up from $3 trillion in 2015. This exponential growth underscores the urgent need for a comprehensive understanding and proactive defense against the myriad of cyber threats looming on the horizon.