Experts now believe that investment in data backup and disaster recovery from businesses around the world is set to increase in the coming years. This is in spite of evidence which suggests that IT budgets are going to be frozen or squeezed as businesses struggle to cope after the recession.
Analysts at ABI Research have suggested [...]
Disaster Recovery
Global boom for disaster recovery predicted
Experts predict cloud implementation for disaster recovery 2010
Disaster recovery planning became a secondary concern for many businesses last year as the pressures of the faltering world economy caused a squeeze on IT budgets. As a result many began to look to cost-effective alternatives, whilst others were force to freeze plans for improved strategies whilst a return to growth was sought.
Disaster recovery and [...]
Virtualisation is top of agenda for disaster recovery
The Storage Expo closed its doors on October 15th after another successful event at Olympia in London. In the run up to what was the self-proclaimed definitive event for data storage and information management, a study of the most important growth areas of storage technology was commissioned by the event’s organisers. Over 400 high-level IT [...]
Cloud computing aids disaster recovery
A recent article for E-Commerce times data protection expert Peter Laudenslager explained some of the key concepts of cloud computing and compared cloud computing recovery with traditional on-site data backup solutions, highlighting some interesting points.
When considering the best methods for backing up data, businesses must also plot the road to recovery that each method embodies. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
BlueArc and Asigra Enhance their Strategic Partnership to Increase Online Backup and Disaster Recovery Speeds
In 2007, Backup Technology were the first provider worldwide to combine BlueArc’s Titan network attached storage solution with Asigra’s agentless multi site enterprise backup platform. After completing a lengthy process of testing and due diligence the BlueArc solution has provided Backup Technology with the scalability to grow to protect over 950 terabytes of data whilst [...]
RAF Lose the Personal Data of Over 500 Senior Officers
Yet another case of data loss has entered the public domain following a Freedom of Information request.
The Ministry of Defence have admitted that computer disks lost at a British Royal Air Force base contained sensitive files on the private lives of senior officers. The extremely personal information had been given by servicemen for an in-depth [...]
Data Loss will incur increased financial penalties
Data loss is increasing……
Last year KPMG reported the worst year for data loss since 2005. More worryingly if the same data loss trend continues, the number of cases of data loss globally could rise to over 190 million this year. However, if the ever threatening possibility of data loss isn’t alarming enough how about adding [...]
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 [...]




