How much does it cost to run a typical “mid range” server?  There’s stacks of info about and research available, but it boils down to approx £500 per year.   (£200 in power consumption for running the actual server, and a scary £300 on average for air conditioning requirements).  (more…)

12 June will see us taking part in the Manchester 10K Midnight Walk in aid of St Ann’s Hospice.   Together with other members of the Manchester Business Network, we’ve decided to raise funds as thanks to the hospice for caring for a fellow Network member earlier this year. (more…)

Memory sticks are great for swapping files between PCs, occasional backups but not as part of your regular backup strategy.  Do bear in mind:

There are different types of memory stick available – some are slower than others; some have less powerful memory cells so are not as reliable. (more…)

The May Day Summit speakers were all very interesting and clearly masters in their field.  However, one lady stood out – Julia Hailes MBE. (more…)

1st May saw us at Manchester Airport, bright and early, for the 3rd annual Prince’s May Day Summit.  With our high availability solutions helping companies become greener, we wanted to see who else thought green issues were important and find out what we could learn. (more…)

Crains announces that 24/7 Uptime is on its way…….

http://www.crainsmanchesterbusiness.co.uk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090420/FREE/904209971

The London Chamber of Commerce states “80% of businesses that suffer significant data loss don’t have a business 18 months later”. (more…)

I’ve just been reading ‘A Decade of Living Dangerously’, the business continuity management report by the Chartered Management Institute.  Some of their statistics make interesting reading – such as the fact that just 52% of organisations have business continuity plans, yet 58% of companies are concerned about electronic attacks and 71% of companies rate loss of IT as a major threat to costs and revenues. (more…)