We’ve added some Marathon everRun videos and webinars to our site so you can see the Marathon technical team explaining how the high availability software works.  Click here to take a look.

According to Patni and Data Centre Management, the credit crunch and recession have put value for money at the top of the business agenda, particularly in the area of IT.  Implementing virtualisation is right up there in the cost saving arena. (more…)

..  no it’s not actually a joke – more to the point what do these household names – plus others such as Singapore Government, several NHS trusts, the MOD, Dungannon Meats and Hovis  all have in common? (more…)

Flat IT budget growth means that organisations facing critical datacentre limitations, such as a shortage of floor or rack space, are looking towards virtualisation software or outsourcing alternatives rather than building new datacentres or upgrading existing facilities.  Those alternatives include IT leasing, managed services, virtualisation, cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS).  24/7 Uptime can advise on best and most relevant use of all of these techniques, technologies and practices. (more…)

The current global economic recession has squeezed IT budgets, hindered capital expenditure and generally slowed the growth of IT development. However Green IT is gaining an upside in the economic downturn, according to a report just published by independent market analyst Datamonitor, “Can Green IT Bloom in an Economic Downturn.” (more…)

24/7 Uptime’s server high availability partner, Marathon Technologies, presented a live webinar on 24 June.  Some questions and answers arose during the live broadcast that concentrated on protecting a SQL environment using Marathon’s everRun fault tolerant high availability software and these are detailed below.  Contact us on info@247uptime.co.uk if you would like to view the full webinar and/or be included on our mailing list so we can tell you about the next one. (more…)