Most users must have had one of those bad PC days, when you arrive at work enthused to complete a task, only to end up spending the day waiting for IT to fix your newly broken PC, or in a small business often doing it yourself. When this happens at the server level, many users are impacted, and it can be expected to happen at the most inconvenient time, such as the end of a month, quarter or year. ...
24/04/2009 | Plan B - April 2009.pdf | VIEW
Increasingly, small and mid-sized businesses (SMB) are becoming more reliant on their IT infrastructure. This is not just because it is used to drive important internal applications, but because the majority of SMBs now use IT to automate interaction with external organisations. This means that an IT failure does not just affect SMBs, but also the businesses with which they interact on a regular basis. ...
28/01/2008 | When a crisis hits, how safe is your IT.pdf | VIEW
Disaster recovery is where a company is trying to stop going out of business. Business continuity is trying to stop the need for disaster recovery. This short video with Computer Weekly looks at the issues concerned. ...
7 minutes | 19/11/2009 | 539 | VIEW
Backup and restore still remains a black art for many. Although companies accept viscerally that data is now so central to their business that it should be protected, many small and medium businesses (SMB) and mid-market organisations still take an ostrich approach to data protection. In many cases, there is no formal back up process or it is at best ad hoc; even where processes are in place systems are never checked and in reality recovery may be tricky; in others, it is felt that using e.g. email as a replication store for data is enough of a step to allow for recovering after any data loss. ...
02/12/2011 | acronis - cloud backup.pdf | VIEW
