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…. (more…)

We’re including here a recent product review of Marathon everRun high availability software by LAN Magazine – the article is written by a well-known independent Dutch IT reviewer who doesn’t always give favourable reviews….. (more…)

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).

…. courtesy of Bill Allen from Allen Multimedia Productions.  Learn about how our server high availability solution can reduce energy costs and CO2 emissions and about the benefits of our offsite data backup solution.  (Both topics are in the same video.)

According to the DTI, 70% of businesses that suffer a major data loss are out of business within 18 months.  So here’s some other scary ‘did you know’ stats: (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…)

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…)

Availability.  Everyone is talking about it as apparently everyone can provide it, one way or another.  Unfortunately, once you dig just slightly below the surface it becomes apparent that there are nearly as many definitions for availability as there are vendors touting it. (more…)