IBM opens new cloud resiliency centre to speed up disaster recovery and support
IBM has opened a brand new cloud resiliency centre designed to deal with disruptions as soon as possible in order to reduce the costs that come from prolonged outages. Related: IBM shores up SoftLayer...
View ArticleThe future looks cloudy in 2015
The Cloud world is evolving fast, furiously gaining greater momentum as we go into 2015 and leaving legacy/on premise systems light years behind. Cloud has the ability to transform the way...
View ArticleFour tips for capturing a larger share of the DRaaS market
Industry analysts predict that the market for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) will grow at an unprecedented rate in the next few years. [see_also] According to Gartner, Inc., DRaaS spending in...
View ArticleAre you worried about DRaaS?
Latest figures from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) indicate that cloud adoption is at its highest figure to date, with 78 per cent of organisations now having formally adopted at least one type of...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS): What businesses need to know
Cloud adoption is continuing to grow amongst enterprises and small businesses alike and, as competition in the technology industry becomes ever-more intense, it has never been more important to be able...
View ArticleUK businesses struggling with disaster recovery
UK businesses are struggling to implement effective disaster recovery solutions, according to the latest research. A study conducted by Quorum highlighted the lack of preparation that threatens to...
View ArticleBringing DRaaS to the C-suite
A series of large-scale cyberattacks have been in the headlines this year and, according to McAfee, the situation will only worsen as hackers use more advanced techniques to infiltrate networks....
View ArticleWhat do R2D2 and DRaaS have in common?
As everyone is set to see the latest Star Wars episode it’s clear to me that Star Wars has things in common with Disaster Recovery (DR). Thirty years after the triumphant glory of the rebels over Darth...
View Article2016 business continuity and disaster recovery predictions
With the large amounts of data organisations are responsible for, cloud adoption is growing. IT DR managers are hailing the benefits of the cloud for DR — specifically disaster recovery as a service...
View ArticleThe Cloud’s the limit: Key points from 2015
We are well into the first month of 2016, and many predictions from the cloud sector have started to reveal different trends that we may see over the next 12 months. In 2015 we saw IaaS (Infrastructure...
View ArticleUnderstanding your Disaster Recovery readiness
I recently read a statistic from Gartner’s 2015 Business Continuity survey stating that 72 per cent of firms surveyed had to use their IT disaster recovery plans. I found that stat quite staggering,...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery: What’s stopping us moving the furniture upstairs?
The heavy rain last week reminded me of the terrible flooding we experienced in the UK in December last year. This got me thinking that the idea of flooding for many of us is just as unlikely as the...
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