Category: Disaster Recovery Advice
Most small businesses do not plan for disaster recovery
A report published by security firm Symantec has found that 57 per cent of the world’s small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), could be at risk in the event of a disaster as they have no plan for recovery or business continuity. The annual study shows that in 2011, the number of businesses without adequate disaster recovery planning has actually risen when compared to last year, when just 47 per cent …
Natwest and RBS customers experience overcharging
It is everyone’s worse nightmare when it comes to banking – fraud and identity theft. Something I thought I had experienced first hand this morning on checking my account online. Upon querying a transaction where I had been over charged by £200.00, NatWest, part of the RBS group told me this wasn’t fraud but to ring 0845 366 0391 for more information. An automated message stated, “We are currently experiencing …
Disaster Recovery is lacking in Virtualised Environments
Organisations utilising virtualisation seem to be placing themselves at greater risk of substantial data loss even though the virtual technology they are deploying improves efficiencies and reduces the cost of disaster recovery. A recent survey conducted by Applied Research, on the state of backup and recovery capabilities in virtual environments, showed that nearly half of enterprise data stored on virtual platforms is rarely backed up and that over 60 percent …
Business managers ignore disaster recovery needs
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 Hillingdon council in London, said that he no longer tries to promote data recovery unless …
The Risks of Failing to Perform Disaster Recovery Tests
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 businesses could not continue to operate successfully if their IT services were unavailable for a …
Data loss is costly and time consuming
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 report, conducted by market research firm IntelliQuest, states that American businesses surrender close to £6 …
Backup is Nothing Without Disaster Recovery Testing
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, business resumption and contingency planning. During a recent study by Gartner (The Broken State of …
HSBC Fined £3,000,000 for Data Breaches
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 and it hasn’t gone unpunished. If today’s economic climate isn’t applying enough pressure to HSBC …
Windows 2008 Hyper-V Backup and Recovery
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 for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V customers, providing the benefits of highly efficient data protection without …
The importance of Disaster Recovery Testing
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 working with our customers to enable them to carry out complete Disaster Recovery Tests. The …
