That’s the largest fine the FSA has imposed to date on a single company for losing customer data. 46,000 customers were unaware that their personal details – in some cases bank account details and credit card information – were lost until Zurich notified them. A worrying 12 months after the event. Read the rest of this entry »
When faced with the task of assessing the risks and impact of downtime, many companies either don’t know where to start or simply decide to live with the unknown and hope that nothing bad happens. Yet it’s important to ask if clients know how much even 5 minutes downtime affects their company’s bottom line. Read the rest of this entry »
Having recently read the Software Advice article “A Plain English Guide To Modern Manufacturing Methods” on Internationalechem’s blog, there is something else to consider when looking to improve overall equipment efficiencies (OEE). Read the rest of this entry »
Not very much these days. A chocolate bar after 5 days saving; an ice cream after 10 days; a pint of beer after 20 days. Or complete protection for your computer data, day in, day out. With prices starting from 16p per day it’s got to be worth it. Contact us to find out how.
Karen Pheasant from Ladies Workout Express provided us with a fantastic testimonial this morning: “I was very impressed to receive an email from 24/7 Uptime last week pointing out there were warnings on my data backup report and suggesting possible causes. BT never did that!”
Customer service is really important to us and we’re delighted Karen recognises that.
We’ve been working with UK manufacturing companies of late – protecting their production line environments with Marathon everRun. So we have added a new page to our web site that specifically deals with their issues – please take a look at high availability for manufacturing to find out more.
Every business welcomes a new sale - but it’s so frustrating when the opportunity is lost because your internal systems don’t work, despite your sales people doing everything they can to close the deal. And from the consumer point of view, it can be equally frustrating …… Read the rest of this entry »
The British Chambers of Commerce, in partnership with the Carbon Trust, have launched a web site to raise awareness of the Carbon Trust’s unsecured, 0% business loans for energy saving equipment. Loans of between £3,000 and £500,000 are available…. Read the rest of this entry »
We were invited to a networking event last night by AsOne (the people who created our blog for us) and, as well as giving a presentation on search engine marketing and other useful stuff, they hired a great caricaturist, John Roberts……..
It’s an interesting one. Often companies are looking for the cheapest support possible in money terms and that’s all they measure against. But that might be a little short-sighted.
