Your computer or laptop is new so your data is safe - right? Not necessarily. Ours were new too but Chris's laptop died completely on Monday morning. Fortunately our data was protected. In June last year we bought shiny new laptops for the office. They were lovely, lightweight, fast and we all worked happily together. Then on Monday morning, Chris switched ...
New research suggests that insurers would be happy to provide premium discounts or improve terms to companies that have business continuity plans in place. But unfortunately only a small number of small and micro businesses even consider this. The survey undertaken jointly by the British Insurance Brokers' Association and the Cabinet Office found 83% of insurers questioned agreed with the above. ...
The 5 mile fund-raising run for Olympic hopeful, Andrew Steele, took place on a very cold February morning (Sunday 12th) and we are delighted to confirm that it has raised £300 towards Andrew's Olympic training fund. The event, co-organised by 24/7 Uptime and Andy O'Sullivan of Andems Runners, had 44 runners tackling the route around Hollingworth Lake and Littleborough. Running uphill ...
The 24/7 Uptime team are regular attendees at Wired City Reconnected Events and so will be sponsoring the Stockport event on 9 February 2012. The Wired City events are business collaboration/networking events specifically aimed at digital, creative and ICT companies. They've produced some good business and collaborations. The Stockport Wired City Reconnected Event runs from 5.30pm until 8.30pm at the Houldsworth Suite, ...
Less hardware and less leg work are the benefits of server virtualisation to Sainsbury's. In an interview with Computing.co.uk, Sainsbury's CIO, Rob Fraser, outlines his plans and reasons: "Sainsbury’s is implementing a new virtualised environment in each of its 600 major stores. Fraser is planning to install two servers at the back of each store that will be fully ...
The favourite business day of the year for online retailers - Cyber Monday - had virtual cash tills ringing up the sales according to the Manchester Evening News. The first Monday after shoppers receive their final pay before Christmas has become known as Cyber Monday after the surge in internet traffic for online shopping. Visa Europe said Monday was its busiest ...
Almost three quarters of firms and public sector organisations across nine European countries may not fully recover their computer systems or data after an IT failure, a survey published today by the BBC suggests. The report said 74% of the companies surveyed were not confident they could fully restore their networks and 54% admitted they had lost data or suffered systems ...
We're delighted to include more offsite data backup success stories for November - thanks to our lovely clients.
We've been involved with The Prince's Mayday Network since 2009, thanks to an initial introduction made by Michael Dinsdale at Brother UK. Initially we were hesitant to get too involved - we weren't entirely sure what was involved and didn't want to commit to ...
As fellow members of the Manchester Business Network, we're supporting athlete Andrew Steele in his bid to raise funding for the 2012 Olympics. Andrew is an Olympic 400 metre runner who ran in the 4 x 400 team that came fourth in Beijing. He is a Manchester athlete who trains at Stretford but unfortunately Andrew's funding for the Olympics has ...
