Disaster Recovery Advice

An outage yesterday meant that over 10 million blogs were left offline for close to 2 hours, costing the wordpress community around 5 million page views. Even WordPress admitted this is the worse outage they have seen in 5 years. Matt Mullenweg wrote; “We are still gathering details, but it appears an unscheduled change to [...]

Three top IT managers have spoken out about the problems facing their departments when it comes to generating enthusiasm for data protection and disaster recovery strategies. In an interview with V3.co.uk it was revealed that justifying business continuity strategies to those operating at a management level could be difficult. Roger Bearpark, who manages IT for [...]

The creation and testing of a disaster recovery plan is one of the key elements of business continuity management. Traditionally business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning have always been separated between the business and the IT department. It has long been recognised that this ‘divide’ creates more problems than it solves, after all most [...]

While technology has greatly enhanced business productivity over the past decade it has also been massively costly to many organisations. The ability to operate more efficiently has been a driver in business success, centralising core operations whilst optimising revenue. However what happens when these reliable and critical technology systems fail and data loss occurs? A [...]

Let’s assume for a moment that your business is a step ahead of many companies out there – you have already thought about and implemented a backup and recovery strategy. This may have included implementing a simple backup strategy, or may be more wide ranging by including other areas such as disaster recovery, workforce continuity, [...]

With security of data being so important in today’s world one would expect every organisation to be taking the uppermost care when it comes to storing data. It may therefore come as a surprise to hear that one of the world’s leading organisations has been found guilty of data loss on more than one account [...]

We are pleased to say that our software partner, Asigra Inc. has today announced certification with Microsoft Hyper V. Here is a couple of snippets from the press release: “Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud backup and recovery software provider, today announced certification with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Asigra simplifies and automates backup and recovery [...]

Since 2005 Backup Technology have performed tens of thousands of live restores and test restores for our Online Backup customers, it’s a critical part of what we do and it’s important for us to demonstrate the speed and reliability of our recovery process on a regular basis. For the last year we have also been [...]

Backup Technology are pleased to announce the launch of our brand new website www.backup-technology.com which reflects our position as the market leading Online Backup and Disaster Recovery specialist. The new site has many new features including a new interactive blog which will feature regular posts from members of our team who will talk about best practices and our experience [...]

As a large or small business owner, you need to consider what can happen if your crucial computer data is lost. Vital computer data can be lost by system failure, hard-disk crash or manual error. In the past two years, there have been many high profile incidents in which several small and large businesses lost [...]