/// Tag Archives: disaster recovery
The 6 “Gotchas” Of Disaster Recovery
January 13, 2012
It is no surprise that disaster preparation is top of mind among people these days. The images and stories coming out of Japan following the...
Why Is Disaster Recovery Becoming Even More Difficult?
December 16, 2011
According to an independent survey of 500 chief information officers (CIOs), virtualisation has the potential to transform data protection. In order to achieve this, greater...
How To Mitigate Risk Of Power Outages In The Cloud
December 09, 2011
Power outages such as those experienced by the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft in recent months are not only hugely embarrassing for the cloud...
Minimising risk as well as improving efficiency in the data centre
November 15, 2011
Energy consumption has become a priority focus for any IT Manager. From escalating costs to carbon footprint concerns, gaining insight into power utilisation is...
6 ways to prevent IT problems
October 10, 2011
Problems with your IT can be a real pain when all you want to do is get on with work. Serious crashes and data loss...
5 reasons why you should invest in a business continuity plan
September 16, 2011
A business continuity plan is an essential part to any company, no matter how big or small. Most businesses will experience an incident that involves...
5 security questions you must ask your SaaS provider
August 17, 2011
Software as a Service is seeing sustained growth and sustained adoption in both enterprise and in the home. According to a Gartner release in July...
Disaster Recovery is more than just backup
August 16, 2011
Originally only an affordable luxury for large scale organisations that could afford the legacy methods of disaster recovery (DR), the development of scalable, cost effective...
How intelligent finance can be a business’s flexible friend
July 13, 2011
Many businesses are currently looking to refresh or transform their desktop environment by adopting utility computing and virtualisation. With support for XP ending in April...
MapR is the next generation distribution for Apache Hadoop
June 30, 2011
The market around Hadoop has historically been very gentlemanly. In most cases when open source products become popular you end up with multiple competing distributions....
Business continuity is much more than information backup
June 06, 2011
If the worst-case scenario happens, and there’s a risk your organisation has lost everything, you’ll be fine because you have a business continuity plan in...
Concerns raised over Amazon’s EC2 failure
May 23, 2011
Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) recent outage, old concerns about the cloud have taken hold of the industry again. Customers were left offline for four...
The missing link in SaaS deployments
April 20, 2011
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployments are irresistibly appealing to organizations of all sizes, especially those with multiple sites. From browser-based access, to painless installations and upgrades, to...
New thinking required for a new generation of data centres
March 30, 2011
While traditionally the role of facilities management may have been a fairly isolated one, facilities managers are set to become increasingly visible and involved in...
Email management: understanding the key issues
March 17, 2011
The way we communicate at work is evolving and as more companies begin to embrace social networking, instant messaging (IM) and internal platforms for corporate...
