The importance of looking beyond bandwidth in the delivery of cloud connectivity Cloud computing is fast moving to the top of the IT agenda, with companies across the board looking to migrate applications away from simple in-house datacentres to a mix of platforms including both private and public cloud services. When it comes to planning…
The CMI 2013 Business Continuity Management Survey I am very pleased to contribute to the publication of the CMI Business Continuity Report, which this year focuses on the disruptive impact extreme weather can have on British Businesses. Most readers of this report will have experienced for themselves some of the problems caused by the significant…
Five Critical Decisions This paper is intended for IT Architects, Backup and Recovery Administrators, and virtualization teams at medium size through Enterprise-scale organizations. Because of the outstanding economy, flexibility, and service levels it offers, virtualization is transforming data centers at breakneck speed: by 2016, an estimated 80 percent of the world’s x86 servers will be…
A Techinical Report by PWC, InfoSecurity & What’s driving IT managers’ technology decisions The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills recognises the importance of producing reliable information about cyber security breaches, and making it publicly available. I welcome the fact that so many businesses across the UK economy have shared their experiences for the 2013…
A global insight into lost and stolen information Hacking number one data loss threat Over the past five years, more than one billion people globally have been affected by data loss incidents. In the last two years, there has been a jump of 40% in the number of publicly disclosed data loss incidents. Over the…
Virtualisation continues to grow in popularity with real implications when it comes to backup and disaster recovery Since its first appearance on industry-standard servers in 2001, virtualisation has taken the market by storm, becoming the accepted norm in datacentres right across the globe. Whether it’s vSphere from VMware®, Microsoft®’s Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer or whatever, the…
Managing exponential storage growth as part of an effective data lifecycle management strategy Executive summary Forget about megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes. When it comes to our insatiable thirst for storage, IT staff these days tend to talk in petabytes (that’s 1,000 terabytes to you and me) and work their way upwards. And not just in…
Technological innovation tends to come in waves, particularly for transformative concepts such as virtualization. The business advantages of virtualization have continued to drive its adoption as well as spur new advances and new usages, including enabling an efficient infrastructure for the cloud. This has resulted in multiple waves of virtualization, each building on the capabilities…
The goal of server backup and recovery is to ensure that a company can recover from varying degrees of failure, from the loss of individual files to a disaster affecting an entire system. Success is measured by how quickly the company can recover (Recovery Time Objective or RTO), as well as by how small the…