A simple definition of high availability and disaster recovery:

Don’t confuse high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR), or expect a DR solution to meet your availabililty needs.  Put simply, high availability is about PREVENTING downtime and disasters, while disaster recovery is RECOVERING FROM PROBLEMS once they occur.  Disaster recovery solutions are designed to help you recover from true disasters (floods, fires), not minor problems (network card failure, storage corruption).

It’s always great to get positive feedback from clients so here’s a testimonial received yesterday from Tracy Griffiths at Eliana: (more…)

Those very words were spoken to me recently – though I know they were rather tongue-in-cheek!    The person concerned is actually a client, but of course his IT person is the one who receives the daily updates that confirm their offsite data backup has been successful.

I did explain that we could arrange to send him the daily confirmations as well but, having teased us suitably, he declined and confirmed he was happy with arrangements as they stand.

So if you lay awake at 4am worrying about your data backup and security – don’t!  Contact 24/7 Uptime and we’ll be happy to take care of this so you can sleep soundly at night.

So why not celebrate by trialling our offsite data backup?   Go on, you know it’s worth it!

Not the ‘comparing’ kind but a green computer security kind.  Typically, PCs are switched on for much longer than they are needed – when employees go to meetings, go to lunch, etc.  MeerCat is a simple device that recognises when the PC user is no longer in the vicinity and puts the computer into security mode (so no-one else can access confidential data) and also puts the computer into energy saving mode (so it saves on energy bills and CO2 emissions).

Users can see at a glance how much energy and CO2 they are saving when they use the MeerCat – so the benefits are very easily trackable.  Click MeerCat from 24/7 Uptime to find out more.

……. so your offsite data backup is a ‘no brainer’ for me!”  Those were the exact words quoted by a client last week.  And, of course, she’s right.  £5 per month is nothing, compared to the peace of mind you get from knowing all your critical data is protected by 24/7 Uptime.  And, once the system is installed, you don’t need to do anything at all.  So that’s one less thing to worry about …..

It’s all very well using backup tapes, hard drives and CDs to take care of your data backup and having employees store them safely off site – but what do you do about your data security when it snows a blizzard as it’s doing this week? (more…)

Just one of the stories about our offsite data backup has now been turned into a case study by Digital Systems.  Click here to see how this cost effective solution can help protect your business.

An offsite data backup client provided some fantastic feedback yesterday.  He was working on an Access database when it ‘disappeared’.  He was really concerned that it would take him a day or so to repopulate his database – but used the offsite backup restore feature and retrieved a full working version in less than five minutes.

 He said: “24/7 Uptime’s offsite data backup solution saved me at least a day’s work.  It has more than paid for itself already and I have only been using it for a couple of months.  It’s fantastic.”

Download our free 10 day offsite data backup trial and try it for yourself!

24/7 Uptime is exhibiting at the Tameside Business Family B2B event on Tuesday 1 December – so do come along to see us and say hello!  (more…)