Keeping The Data Centre Going Over Christmas - The Importance Of DR, Back-Up And Staffing / Management

Insecurity outfit Symantec today released the findings of its 2010 State of the Data Center study. Now in its third year, the study found that mid-sized enterprises (2,000 to 9,999 employees) are more likely to adopt...

Extending your IT resource into the cloud has become a lot more secure, as Steve Gold explains how businesses of all sizes can create a secure VPN between their physical IT storage and the cloud, allowing them access to...

Remote storage solutions have been around for many years.  The pendulum between local storage (and control) and remote storage has shifted several times over the course of storage technology.  Storage location and...

If there is one component that has revolutionised business continuity, it has to be virtualization technologies.  In this article, Steve Gold looks at how virtualization can be engineered to go hand in hand with increased IT...

In a world increasingly reliant on power-hungry complex carbon technology, the IT industry itself is initiating changes to reduce our impact on the environment – with data centres as the key driver.  As a supplier of...

Many organisations are adopting virtualisation technologies in their data centre to secure the benefits of increased hardware utilisation, reduced power consumption and simplified management. The reliability of this new...

Data replication provides a continuously updated copy of critical data at a remote site. In the event of a disaster, users are rapidly failed over to the live backup systems at the remote site, minimising data loss and greatly...

Server management is the foundation of any IT management strategy. If a server fails, applications fail, and operations come to an immediate halt. As the data centre becomes virtualized and redistributed, the purposes, location...

Telstra Europe is launching a remote backup service to protect businesses against the loss or corruption of important data files and strengthen their disaster recovery procedures.Telstra’s Remote Backup is a fully managed...

Ever since the earliest days of networked PCs, organisations have relied on tape backups for their email and server data.Increasingly, however, the levels of IT sophistication available to even the smallest business have enhanced...

Rather than just relying on back-ups when things go wrong, remote data recovery can be another useful weapon in the IT manager's armoury. Remote data recovery has come a long way since the first online backup services started...

A few years ago Microsoft announced its Windows Server Roadmap to try and provide consistency and predictability for Windows customers to be able to plan their OS purchasing and adoption strategies. Essentially the roadmap...