Virtualisation technologies make it much easier and less expensive to keep key applications available through failures, outages and even regional disasters. By carefully balancing downtime costs and availability options, organisations can extend the benefits of high availability (HA) to even more applications, locations and users. (more…)
Another webinar we’ve been asked about – so we’re including it on our site to make it easier to find. Yes, you need to enter your email address to access it but it’s worth a look to learn more. We’ll be adding it to our Marathon webinar page shortly but click here to see it now. (more…)
On July 30th, 24/7 Uptime’s high availability partner, Marathon Technologies, hosted a joint webinar with Microsoft – “Top 10 reasons to Upgrade to Windows 2008 now”. It was very well attended and several questions were posed to the speakers David Hanna, Infrastructure Architect at Microsoft, and Michael Bilancieri, Senior Director of Products at Marathon. In fact too many questions to handle during the one hour allocated webinar slot. So – here are a selection of the Q&As. Oh – and if you want to see the full webinar click here …. Windows 2008 Webinar (more…)
Was watching Aleksandr doing his stuff again last night when it struck me – I think he needs some everRun high availability software from his fans at 24/7 Uptime. Then he won’t need to beat up his computer – or Sergei. Simples!
Take a look at his latest bloopers here – love the ‘wardrobe malfunction’ and helium balloon parts …..
I’m learning more about the CRC legislation that comes into effect next year and it’s sounding like a rather expensive undertaking for business so far. From what I can gather, and in very simple terms, organisations within the scope of this legislation will initially need to buy allowances (emission credits) from the Government at a cost of £12/tonne of CO2 produced. (more…)
Cutting carbon emissions saves money, as we have posted on this blog on numerous occasions. By virtualising, consolidating and centralising IT provisions, companies can save thousands of pounds every year in energy bills and many, many tonnes of CO2 emissions. But now there is even more of an incentive for businesses in the UK’s North West to go green in the IT department. (more…)
Just read an interesting research report from Info-Tech/IBM about green IT and what the drivers and outcomes are for mid-sized companies, particularly in the current economic climate. (more…)
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…)
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…)
