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Aug 27th, 2010

The Evolution Of Business Email

The current economic climate has forced many budgets to be squeezed even tighter, while forcing companies to change the way they do business. For companies seeking to communicate effectively with staff and customers, IT remains an essential part of the business. At its heart, email provides the lifeblood for an organisation’s workers to communicate internally [...]

Aug 10th, 2010

10 Reasons To Migrate To Exchange 2010

A recent survey found that 87% of organisations are currently using Exchange 2003 or earlier. There has been a reluctance to adopt the 2007 version, often considered to be the ‘Vista’ of the server platform – faulty and dispensable. But an upgrade to a modern, improved version is now becoming crucial: standard support for the [...]

Jul 28th, 2010

Distributed Versus Centralised Scanning: The Debate That Won’t Go Away

Apart from the smallest companies, the question of centralised versus distributed scanning has exercised the minds of most IT departments for a long time. Either strategy has their supporters and detractors, but it is time the debate moved on. Distributed and centralised scanning can work in harmony. For some time, the two strategies seemed to be [...]

Jun 23rd, 2010

Effective Business Continuity Management

We all understand the ongoing concerns of keeping your business afloat when disaster strikes. Whether this is the affect of the adverse weather conditions that this winter has brought us or the impact of global warming over the next few years, most businesses are aware of the need to safeguard the operational element of [...]

Feb 11th, 2010

Firth Rixon Chooses NexStor To Supply Business Continuity Solution

Firth Rixson is a provider of rings, forgings and metal products. Paul Armitage, the Group Systems Executive, was faced with a growing company and an expanding worldwide IT infrastructure that needed to be supported. “In Sheffield we support in excess of 100 servers and the recovery time could potentially be several days following a major outage. [...]

Jan 11th, 2010

Quick Win, Quick Fall If You Fail To Plan Ahead

Virtualisation seems to be the hot word of the year for all businesses large and small, and as everyone seems to concentrate on deciding whether VMware is better than Microsoft HyperV, often driven by the media, they might overlook one of the major pitfalls in moving to virtual – the lack of forward planning. Many organisations [...]

Jan 5th, 2010

2010: Year Of The Cloud

2010 is set to be the ‘year of the cloud’ for UK SMEs, following a huge change in outlook over the past 15 months, but many are still failing to implement formal strategies to help safeguard their businesses, according to a report released today by my company. Compared to a similar report in October 2008, the [...]

Dec 18th, 2009

Small Businesses Unprepared For Heavy Snowfall

With heavy snow predicted to blanket UK streets tonight, many small businesses across the country will be shivering at the potential loss of productivity and revenue from staff unable to make it into the office. Despite the heavy snow in February of this year, which brought the London transport system to its knees and left thousands [...]

Oct 7th, 2009

Virtualisation And ‘The New Availability’

Long established techniques addressing application resilience, data availability and disaster recovery are being challenged by server virtualisation technologies from companies such as VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. Where do we go from here asks John Abbott, Founder & Chief Analyst, The 451 Group? High availability, business continuity, fault tolerance, disaster recovery: all of these labels reflect different [...]

Oct 2nd, 2009

Business Continuity: Insurance Policy Or An Opportunity To Improve?

For all organisations, the impact that a disaster can have on its business is significant. From small events such as a lost e-mail or corrupted files through to large-scale problems caused by fire or flooding, the cost of downtime can be huge. This can be particularly expensive, affecting not only the company’s brand but also [...]

Sep 30th, 2009

Virtualisation Or Hosting: Why The Confusion?

The inescapable buzzword in the IT industry today is ‘virtualisation’. But this relatively straightforward concept is causing almost unprecedented degrees of confusion with most explanations essentially describing a hosted solution, says Nigel Davey from IT support service, Managed Networks. Any online search seeking clarity servers the client no better as they will be presented with over [...]

Sep 28th, 2009

Risking Business Value

Poor asset management is undermining business integrity, says Karen Conneely, Group Commercial Manager, Real Asset Management. Growing risk awareness and an increasingly unstable business environment may have prompted an increasing number of companies to invest in disaster recovery (DR) as part of the business continuity programme―but how safe is that investment? Just what, indeed, is being recovered? [...]

Sep 14th, 2009

Disaster 101: Better Business Continuity With Unified Data Management

There are a number of obvious business benefits for business to ensure regular data protection is completed and recovery assured, not least issues of business continuity, corporate governance and costs. As companies demand new approaches to meet more stringent recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs), Nathan Collins, Technical Director, CommVault, explains the [...]

Sep 10th, 2009

Business Continuity In An Economic Downturn

Business continuity once had a lower priority than other IT issues, but today’s IT managers recognise that any enterprise is vulnerable to unplanned disruptions. Reliance on complex supply chains, for example, can cause even a small interruption to bring an organisation’s operations to a halt, as can a disaster occurring even a continent away, says [...]

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