BUSINESS JJO Plc is one of the UK’s largest manufacturers of household furniture. It produces up to 500 kitchens, 100 bedrooms and 200 bathrooms per week from its 1.1 million square-foot factory in Bacup, Lancashire. CHALLENGE With payments coming in every hour and stock to manage, JJO Plc must ensure this business data is protected.…
Cloud storage appliances: What they are and who provides them? Spend on the cloud seems to be set to eclipse in-house hardware and software in 2016. When asked which areas would see increases in IT budget this year, cloud services (computing and storage) come out top (50%), while software (48%) and hardware (33%) follow behind.…
Outwood Grange Academies Trust ensures teaching continuity with Arcserve UDP Customer Case Study | December 2015 ORGANISATION The Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT) consists of 19 academies in Northern England. It has approximately 10,000 students and a reputation for excellence. CHALLENGE To safeguard the continuity of its educational activity, Outwood needed a new standardised backup…
Hyper Converged Infrastructure – What’s it all about? You are invited to join Sean Horne, CTO at EMC, who will explain how Hyper-Converged Infrastructure can deliver the next level of compute, virtualisation and storage to your organisation, as part of a Cloud-enabled platform within a software defined Data Centre. We will demonstrate how we have…
Looking at business yesterday vs. business today, one of the biggest differences is speed. Business moves faster today. Business cycles, market opportunities (and challenges), product lifespans—they have all been compressed. Five-year project plans? Long-term strategies? Yes, we all still prepare them, but they come out laden with more caveats than ever before. Whether you are…
“The failure to understand and address risks related to technology, primarily the systemic cascading effects of cyber risks or the breakdown of critical information infrastructure, could have far-reaching consequences for national economies, economic sectors and global enterprises.” -The Global Risks Report 2016 Cheery stuff and just to really depress you; why not try to find…
DATE: 19th May 2016 LOCATION: Volta, 36-43 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V0A Colocation, On-Premise or Cloud? The fire in Holborn last April and its aftermath gave many organisation leaders pause for thought on how IT services are provisioned. Secure disaster recovery, backup and storage are especially critical for legal firms, due to the sensitive nature of…
DATA PRIVACY IN THE CLOUD INTRODUCTION The collection of technologies known as cloud computing have created revolutionary change in the way people around the world live and work. The ‘cloud effect’ on commerce has been impressive, with international business benefiting from the technological and cost efficiencies of cloud infrastructures. However, emerging and disruptive technologies rarely…
Arcserve has been making the headlines. Featured as a cover story TWICE in the past MONTH. First on the cover of CIO Review, a technology magazine talking about enterprise solutions that are redefining the business goals of tomorrow. It is a leading source sharing innovative enterprise solutions, upcoming hot enterprises, and is a neutral source…
Thought leaders within the IT community are beginning to view cybersecurity not just as part and parcel of the everyday cost of doing business, but as an enabler, a direct driver of business continuity and bottom line growth. This shift in perception has begun to have a dramatic impact on the position and role of…
In order to increase application Availability, every company, no matter the size, needs to have a secondary site for disaster recovery (DR). Today’s technology provides the ability power on any workload instantly in the secondary site if any issue occurs in the primary one. Historically, DR sites have only been a solution targeted at large…
Core are excited to announce an enhanced version of our Veeam Cloud Connect service, leveraging the enhanced features launched in Veeam version 9: Veeam Cloud Connect Replication Ensure Availability of your mission-critical applications without the cost and complexity of building and maintaining a disaster recovery (DR) site. Veeam Cloud Connect Replication provides fully integrated, fast…
Recovery solution features new, powerful management capabilities for backup, recovery DRAPER, Utah – StorageCraft Technology Corp. today announced the release of StorageCraft® ShadowControl® v3.5, which allows IT professionals to more easily protect data and IT systems. ShadowControl is a remote monitoring and management appliance for IT environments protected by the award-winning StorageCraft ShadowProtect® or StorageCraft…
Data Protection Appliances: For When Cloud-Based Data Protection Software Isn’t Enough. Software that takes advantage of the capacity and flexibility of public or private clouds is an important component for a complete data protection solution. But for customers looking beyond simple data protection, cloud-focused backup and recovery software may not be enough. For an extra layer of…
Show Me the Money! You guessed it – we’re not printing real money, but we’re helping our customers keep a lot more of it in their wallets with the storage savings our technology generates. In our current “size matters” challenge, we’re asking customers to send us screen shots of their Arcserve UDP environment. The response…
Recent research has shown that companies really can benefit from disaster recovery in the cloud. the research examines the cost of downtime in various industries, as well as its most common causes. It also reveals that 59 percent of companies say they choose cloud backups for cost reasons, 52 percent cite ease of use and…
Introduction: PRAGMATISM RULES Is the future of computing in the cloud? Increasingly, it appears headed in that direction – and for good reason. Cloud computing presents numerous cost, agility, and operational advantages that are undeniably compelling. In fact, in a vast majority of enterprise data centers, cloud-like architectures are quickly taking root. Companies are virtualizing…
Eliminating Downtime for Small and Mid-Market Organizations Information technology (IT) provides enormous value for the small and mid-market business, but it also represents a tremendous point of weakness. When markets are global, employees work around the clock and business is effectively always on, any interruption to application availability can quickly lead to lost revenue, lost…
Ben Cuppello – Sales Director Firstly allow me to caveat…your view on the topic at hand is likely to depend on whether or not you are looking at the topic as a vendor, reseller or service provider leveraging vendor technology to deliver a managed service. I myself sit in the camp of a service provider…
Core is please to announce the addition of a new blog to the website, where key members of staff and management will be offering their thoughts on current topics and trends in the Backup, DR and Cloud. Please have a read at https://coredatacloud.com/core-data-cloud-back-up-services-blog/
Introduction The cloud will be a growing part of your IT environment. This is inevitable, particularly in consideration of the following: ▪ Economic Attractiveness – The economic attractiveness of cloud infrastructure services (e.g., Infrastructure as a Service – IaaS) is rising with each round of price wars. Lured by this attractiveness, will your organization be…
This Executive Brief is a summary of the white paper: The Normalisation of Cloud in a Hybrid IT Market UK Cloud Adoption Snapshot & Trends for 2015 DEFINITION • Hybrid IT is an approach to enterprise computing in which an organisation provides and manages some information technology (IT) resources in-house but uses cloud-based services for…
Vendor branded backup appliances – why? by Brian Jones – Pre Sales. Before I get started let me just limit what I will discuss in this blog, there are many areas of interest in this market on which I could comment; however today I want to look at the recent trend for a host of…
Watch the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders video case study, produced by EMC.
Introduction Company executives, including CIOs and CFOs, have zero tolerance for downtime and data loss. These companies have established high availability requirements for the applications and critical data the organization uses on a daily basis. Sadly, most companies have not found a way to match these expectations with the harsh realities of maintaining the demands…
We are seeing an explosion in the growth of data today. Not surprisingly, many industry experts believe that we have entered a new era of Big Data. Along with accelerating growth of new data, the composition of new data is also changing significantly from traditional structured, block data to much more unstructured, file-based data. By…
BUSINESS A historic professional legal society The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple is one of four Inns of Court with the exclusive right to call students to the Bar in England and Wales. Its long and distinguished history began with its founding in 1608 with the objective of providing education and offices for those…
A growing number of enterprises are adopting both private and public cloud computing models. While virtualization, cloud, mobility, data analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are providing tremendous opportunities for businesses, they are also creating new challenges for IT departments. Certain workloads are better suited to the private cloud, whereas other, often newer applications…
Core are pleased to announce we will be speaking at the forthcoming Manage And Protect Your Company Data In The Legal Sector event, which takes place on the 6th July in Middle Temple, London. Find out more about this event here, or register now.
The Global Risk Report 2015 Global Risks 2015, 10th Edition is published by the World Economic Forum within the framework of The Global Competitiveness and Benchmarking Network. The information in this report, or on which this report is based, has been obtained from sources that the authors believe to be reliable and accurate. However, it…
How To Choose The Right Tiering Solution File tiering is new to most organizations. Given this, few people are experts in the technology. In fact, many of us are unsure of even what questions to ask. It turns out that there are several very important questions. A few features can make the difference between long-term…
Core have recently worked with our Channel partner Norisco to deliver a managed backup and disaster recovery service to the honourable Society of Middle Temple, read about the challenges the Society was facing, and the services which addressed them in a case study. You can find the full case study here: Norisco/Middle Temple Case Study…
Are your channels cloud-ready? We have all seen the data for several years. End customers are continuing to adopt on-demand consumption models, driving an increased IT market opportunity. IDC indicates public cloud services sales will near $70B in 2015 and the “greater cloud market” – including public, private clouds and enabling IT and services –…
Executive summary Technology has gained critical mass in enterprises in several ways. Historically the IT department, with clear orders and budget from the CIO, would buy, deploy and strictly control any technology used by employees. Then the “Consumerization of IT” brought consumer technologies into the workplace that were cheaper, more mobile and easier to manage,…
Core are pleased to announce a new technology partnership with Arcserve. Core have been working closely with Arcserve over the past few months to benchmark a managed service platform based on the Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) product. Following the Arcserve split away from CA Technologies in 2014 and the launch of UDP, Core felt…
TechTarget and Computer Weekly surveyed IT professionals globally to find out their IT priorities and forecasts for 2015. Find out what European businesses are forecasting for IT budgets, new initiatives and the projects considered top priority. Below you will find all of the survey’s coverage including news and features on the global IT forecast for…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Cloud computing models offer a new approach for IT organizations to deliver business services to end users. By implementing their own internal or “private” cloud infrastructures, IT organizations can deploy a technology model that provides both flexible IT architectures and dynamic business agility. The private cloud model, once fully implemented, offers capacity on…
The Forrester Wave™: Private Cloud Solutions, Q4 2013 by Lauren E. Nelson, November 25, 2013 Key Takeaways Private Cloud Tools Are Rapidly Evolving To Meet A Range Of Enterprise Requirements Enterprises look to private clouds for more than just virtual infrastructure provisioning. Private cloud vendors have started to bundle additional capabilities into their solutions, including…
We have it on good authority that the constant in life is change. Yet, given the magnitude of the change we witness daily and the staggering pace at which it now unfolds, the term “constant” seems inadequate as we attempt to define and understand the highly mutable world around us. For example, 10 years ago,…
Introduction: Are your channels cloud-ready? We have all seen the data for several years. End customers are continuing to adopt on-demand consumption models, driving an increased IT market opportunity. IDC indicates public cloud services sales will near $70B in 2015 and the “greater cloud market” – including public, private clouds and enabling IT and services…
Join us at the Eight Club, Bank, on 16th April to hear from evangelists and innovators in the fields of Open Cloud, Security, Data Centres & specialist industry technologies. The Oil & Gas Industry cannot continue to invest at Pre-2014 levels. Learn about how key Partners can assist this industry in transforming legacy investments to…
Summary: Catalyst: Organizations are demanding higher levels of system and network availability, and cost effective business continuity. However, all this must be managed and maintained by a single department with one IT budget. This often leads to the creation of tensions between conflicting demands and priorities of production requirements where access and speed are desired qualities…
Benchmark Study of Global Companies – Ponemon Institute October 2014 Part 1. Executive Summary We are pleased to present the 2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cyber Crime. Sponsored by HP Enterprise Security, this year’s study is based upon a representative sample of 257 organizations in various industry sectors. The Cost of Cyber Crime study…
“I think most of the IT team would agree that our favorite Veeam feature is seamless integration with HP StoreVirtual. I believe this integration will be one of the most useful aspects of our IT infrastructure.” — Jan Spapens, Senior Program Manager, Technology Enterprise Solutions The Business Challenge Vodafone Netherlands operates in a dynamic and…
Core is pleased to be working with EMC to produce a video case study with some of our clients, explaining how Core’s managed services, powered by EMC back end technology, solve key challenges for our clients. The first round of interviews take place this week, we expect the video will be interesting and informative. Thanks…
Executive Summary The cloud infrastructure industry is changing constantly. As the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market gets increasingly competitive, price changes are common. For example, Amazon EC2 alone has changed its prices 44 times since 2006. Although other benefits are associated with cloud infrastructure, the low upfront costs and inexpensive payments for servers attract…
Abstract Security has always encompassed physical and logical components. But in the face of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), an increasingly mobile and remote workforce, highly distributed assets and sophisticated online threats, security has become too complex and multifaceted for many organizations to manage alone. At the same time, managed service providers (MSPs) are looking…
Ponemon Institute Research Report Sponsored by HP Enterprise Security Independently conducted by Ponemon Institute LLC Benchmark Study of Global Companies Part 1. Executive Summary We are pleased to present the 2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cyber Crime. Sponsored by HP Enterprise Security, this year’s study is based upon a representative sample of 257…
Core would like to wish all of our clients and partners a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. We are keenly looking forward to 2015, may it be a fruitful and rewarding year for us all!
As organizations aim to increase business agility and streamline costs, demand for public cloud services continues to grow exponentially, with Gartner predicting it will become the majority of new IT spending by 2016. There’s no question that virtualized public clouds have revolutionized the technology landscape, giving cloud-savvy companies – from startups to other Internet-centric organizations…
Core would like to thank all our guests who attended our Hybrid Cloud Forum yesterday at the Eight Club, Bank. Particular thanks go to our guest speakers, Andy Bant from EMC, Mike Price from Ormuco and Chris Taylor-Reed of Auckland Micro. An excellent event we thought, informative presentations, a lively open forum with an enjoyable…
Cover your SaaS! It’s time to get serious about cloud security Executive Summary Is everyone really moving to the cloud? Cloud providers and investment gurus are outdoing themselves to give that impression. Promises of: 1. cost savings, 2. happier employees, and 3. cutting-edge performance Turn companies such as Box and Cloudera into ballyhooed acquisitions or…
Core are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with Migsolv, the exemplary services and facilities provider. We will be taking datacentre capacity within their Norwich site, and working with them to provide new and innovative joint solutions to the market. You can find out more about Migsolv on their website or take a virtual…
INTRODUCTION TO THE CLOUD ADOPTION AND RISK REPORT In our professional lives, we all seek to make more data-driven decisions. We know that logical decisions made with complete information yield better results than those based on conjecture or suspicion. To that end, Skyhigh Networks produces a quarterly “Cloud Adoption and Risk (CAR) Report” that provides…
Core DataCloud is pleased to announce a partnership with Ormuco Communications, a global cloud, managed services and telecommunications provider founded in Montreal in 2008. Ormuco, who have recently opened operations in EMEA, developed their reputation by offering a range of solutions and services designed to streamline day-to-day business operations and reduce associated IT costs. Their…
Core are pleased to announce we will be hosting a Hybrid Cloud Forum on 20th November at the Eight Club, Bank. Speakers from some of our partner organisations, including EMC will give their perspective on the hybrid cloud model, trends in the market, adoption strategies and its advantages. These speakers will then join other experts…
Flexibility and Integration at the Source NTP Software is the only company that has made the investment to work with the major storage manufacturers and create extensions and interfaces that are part of the storage host OS’s of NetApp, EMC, HDS and Windows – storage platforms that collectively host over 85% of all file data.…
Introduction In spring 2014, TwinStrata surveyed 254 IT professionals to better understand today’s storage strategies and challenges. We all know that data continues to explode exponentially – our results show 29 percent of organizations with more than 100 employees are storing more than a petabyte – but we wanted to find out just how organizations…
This weekend Core had a company outing to the Invictus Games, we caught the finals of the archery competition as well as the grand final of the wheelchair rugby. Superb atmosphere, great competitions. The exhibition wheelchair rugby match with Prince Harry and Zara Phillips, Mike Tindall and Jason Robinson, Kelly Holmes and Denise Lewis was…
Abstract This white paper explains the benefits to the extended enterprise of the on-¬‐premise, online file sharing storage solution from EMC Syncplicity using EMC Isilon, EMC Atmos, and EMC VNX. It also discusses solution deployment and load balancing options. Executive summary Today’s corporate employees expect to have access to data and services across all their…
And What YOU Can Do To Manage Them! Summary IT directors at growing, distributed enterprises face a number of unique challenges, particularly when it comes to storage. Nasuni has worked with hundreds of customers to alleviate the pain that today’s enterprise IT departments face in trying to manage storage remotely. We drew upon the insights…
Program enables service providers to drive recurring revenue through high-margin data protection services BURLINGTON, Mass. , August 25, 2014 Unitrends today announced that its Service Provider Program experienced 278 percent revenue growth in its first year. Launched in August 2013, Unitrends’ Service Provider Program enables hosting, managed service and cloud providers to generate recurring revenue…
We are currently processing dozens of free, no obligation file assessments per month for clients interested in Cloud Archiving – find out how much data you could tier away, freeing up your primary storage space while reducing management and backup overheads!
Bottom-Line Assessment August 2014 Microsoft Azure meets 75% of Gartner’s required criteria for cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS). As a result, Gartner advises enterprises to consider Azure for specific projects, deployments and applications, but not for widespread enterprise production workloads. Azure has emerged as the clear No. 2 market share leader in public cloud…
AWS is the dominant cloud IaaS provider and has a number of key strengths: Network offerings and configurations: AWS offers customer control and flexibility over defining network topology and private network connections through the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Direct Connect offerings. It also includes robust load-¬‐balancing options for both external-¬‐ and internal-¬‐facing applications.…
Executive Summary The Trust Problem The exploitation of trust is a common mode of operation for online attackers and other malicious actors. They take advantage of users’ trust in systems, applications, and the people and businesses they interact with on a regular basis. And this approach works: There is ample evidence that adversaries are coming…
The Insider’s Guide to Evaluating Virtual Server Backup Software By Charley McMaster and Jerome Wendt With the proliferation of virtual machines (VMs), organizations are appropriately concerned about their ability to backup and restore the growing amount of data that they have residing on these VMs. As such, companies are looking for virtual server backup software…
Thanks once again to the team at Azlan Basingstoke for all their efforts on the second day of our joint callout. We look forward to the webinar tomorrow! Get in contact if you want to find out more about Core DataCloud’s partnership with Azlan.
Cloud UK Paper fourteen – UK Cloud Adoption Snapshot & Trends for 2015 Introduction The IT landscape is evolving rapidly, not least driven by the evolution and adoption of Cloud-based services and the relative increase in available internet bandwidth. That said, whilst Cloud Computing is now a core deployment model for IT, revolutionizing speed of…
An NTP Whitepaper We’ve all heard the saying, “The devil is in the details.” Nowhere is this truer than it is when talking about the stubs used in tiering. Stubs require the cooperation of the storage hosts, the network, protocols, security, end-user applications, and client systems. What works for one may or may not work…
Core would like to thank the team at Azlan Basingstoke for their hospitality and hard work during our joint call out day yesterday. With contact established to 20 new resellers and follow ups underway this is an excellent start to our partnership!
By Charley McMaster and Jerome Wendt Introduction The DCIG 2014-15 Integrated Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guide provides organizations the unique opportunity to review and evaluate the large number of backup appliances that represent more steps forward in the continuing effort to simplify backup in today’s real-world IT environments. By providers integrating the core components needed to…
We are excited – today Azlan will be announcing our partnership to 4000+ of their reseller contacts. Thanks to all the team at Azlan for their help, its is much appreciated!
Research on the Evolving State of Cloud Security Spring 2014 Executive Summary ATTACKS INCREASED ACROSS ALL INCIDENT TYPES in both on-premises and CHP environments. ENTERPRISES CONTINUE TO ADOPT CLOUD, FOCUS ON SECURITY In early 2012, Alert Logic launched the first in a series of reports on cloud security, with the goal of creating the IT…
Core DataCloud is pleased to welcome Meghan O’Leary to the sales team today. Meghan comes to us with a strong background in telephone sales and we are sure she will be a great addition to the expanding team!
Core is very pleased to announce the formation of a new partnership with leading technology provider Norisco. Everyone at Core has been motivated by the input from Norisco, and we look forward to a fruitful relationship. “We are excited to announce our partnership with Core DataCloud, which complements our existing relationship with EMC, to expand…
Executive Summary The Trust Problem The exploitation of trust is a common mode of operation for online attackers and other malicious actors. They take advantage of users’ trust in systems, applications, and the people and businesses they interact with on a regular basis. And this approach works: There is ample evidence that adversaries are coming…
Welcome to the 2014 edition of the BYOD & Mobile Security Report. Our second annual edition of the BYOD & Mobile Security Report explores the state and challenges of securing BYOD and mobility in 2014. The results are in. We received over 1,100 responses and gained new insights into the state of BYOD and mobile…
Core DataCloud is this week launching a new promotion in partnership with UniTrends/PHD Virtual whereby all existing PHD Virtual users can place their local backups in the cloud. Sign up before 31st July and receive 3 months free! Call us on 0845 680 1165 or fill out a contact form to find out more about…
Core DataCloud is excited to announce the beginning of our partnership with TechData/Azlan. Over the coming weeks we will be running promotions and actively recruiting resellers in partnership with TechData/Azlan, watch this space for more news, as well as visiting our reseller webpage for more in depth information on partnering with us.
INSIGHTS FOR A GREAT MIGRATION RISE ABOVE THE NOISE. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (AND WHERE TO FIND IT) The cloud space is noisy, with competing opinions, statistics and data. There’s plenty of information out there—but knowing what to trust can be a challenge. Here’s a quick look at important cloud computing trends and a…
Date: February 2014 Author: Terri McClure, Senior Analyst and Bill Lundell, Senior Research Analyst – Enterprise Strategy Group Abstract: The OFS market is rapidly maturing from file storage services for consumers to technology solutions that require features to effectively manage and secure business data. As part of this evolution, there is increasing demand for alternatives…
An NTP Software White Paper Allocating resources to high-cost storage for low-use data doesn’t make sense. Most organizations would rather match storage to data and use the saved budgetary resources for other projects. NTP Software Precision Tiering™ makes it easy for you to find and migrate data automatically to the most appropriate storage tier, ensure…
Core is proud to announce our membership of the new NTP Software Service Provider Offering, a first-of-its-kind “all-in-one” storage tiering program for service providers that provides us with the tools needed to help end-customers manage and move data to the most appropriate storage tier to reduce costs, address compliance issues and perform electronic discovery. We…
IT Audit Report: Leading the Transformation By Brian Garrett, Vice President, ESG Lab; Vinny Choinski, Senior Lab Analyst; and Kerry Dolan, Lab Analyst ESG Lab Reports The goal of ESG Lab reports is to educate IT professionals about data center technology products for companies of all types and sizes. ESG Lab reports are not meant…
Albert Ellis, Chief Executive, Harvey Nash plc The 2014 CIO Survey is the largest survey we have ever undertaken in almost two decades of researching the market. With more than 3,200 CIOs and technology leaders taking part globally, it is one of the largest studies of its kind ever produced – and I am grateful…
Published by Continuity Software Executive Summary This benchmark survey presents service availability metrics that allow IT infrastructure, business continuity, and disaster recovery managers to compare their organization’s performance and practices to their peers. The results presented here are based on responses from 155 professionals from a wide range of industries and geographies collected through an…
The 2013 Business Continuity Management Survey (March 2013 – Ben Musgrave and Patrick Woodman) Executive Summary Disruptive weather – severe weather conditions remain the leading cause of disruption to organisations across the UK, for the fourth consecutive year. Impact of 2013 snow – managers in organisations affected by snow in early 2013 report an average…
Core DataCloud is proud to announce their new Cloud Services Provider Business Partner status with EMC. Having worked with EMC for several years this is a great extension of our partnership and shows the recognition we have achieved for promoting their innovative enterprise technologies. Our new status will enable us to provide an even higher…
The traditional concept of using a retention schedule to manage just “records” is no longer sufficient. This article offers practical advice for developing and implementing a modern, executable retention schedule based on the business value of all “information” – regardless of its location – in today’s complex business environment. Lorrie Luellig, J.D. Despite the digital…
Technology options are removing obstacles to disaster recovery protection With the technologies that are available to help speed, simplify and lower the cost of disaster recovery protection, your excuses for not having a plan are falling away. Server virtualisation and the cloud are making the task of disaster recovery protection considerably easier than in the…
The State of Global Disaster Recovery Preparedness ANNUAL REPORT 2014 The Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council publishes this annual report to provide an overview of the current state of disaster recovery preparedness for organizations worldwide. It contains the results of a ground-breaking online survey along with recommendations for improving disaster recovery preparedness based on best practices.…
Reconnect. Rebuild. Reimagine. Redeliver. Welcome to The Deloitte CIO Survey findings for 2013. This year, we present a truly international outlook, reporting on the responses of over 700 Chief Information Officers and other IT leaders from 36 countries across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. The survey aims to provide an…
Opening the door to the C-suite The DNA of the CIO provides fresh insight into what it is to be a Chief Information Officer (CIO) today. The report is based on our survey of 301 senior IT professionals from Europe, North America, Asia, Latin America, Australia and South Africa. It also draws on in-depth interviews…
Mark Schlack, Sr. VP, Editorial, TechTarget Interesting and varied results of an exhaustive survey on European IT priorities for the coming year. Carried out by TechTarget and delivered in easy to consume graphical formats, provides good insight into the opinions of IT professionals on what’s hot for the coming year. Downloads 2014 IT Priorities Europe
Sponsored by: EMC Mozy. Liz Conner Laura DuBois – May 2013 IN THIS WHITE PAPER Cloud services are having a transformational effect on IT organizations today. They are changing not only how IT is architected, procured, and deployed but also from whom and how IT infrastructure is provided. Storage is one industry seeing major disruption…
Scott Lowe – Founder and Managing Consultant of the 1610 Group Abstract: Tape and cloud storage targets have their pros and cons. There are many differences between these two technologies, which we will explore in this paper. These differences can steer the decision process you may have for getting virtual machine (VM) backups offsite with…
Core are excited to announce further development of our back end infrastructure, with the purchase and installation of an additional 100TB of EMC Isilon storage, supporting our fully managed Backup as a Service and Disaster Recovery as a Service Solutions.
To celebrate our status as a Mozy platinum partner, Core are about to launch a joint campaign with Mozy, offering an exceptional online backup package to new users joining the service. Contact us for more details!
Core are delighted to announce our new partnership with distributor Prianto. We are especially excited about the potential within the existing PHD Virtual user client base, as we offer our Cloud Storage platform as a target for the PHD Virtual CloudHook off site storage mechanism, and will also be offering fully managed end to end…
Core are pleased to welcome Danielle Emina to our expanding sales team. A journalism graduate, Danielle brings enthusiasm and a great attitude to the team; we all wish her well and look forward to working with her.
Cloud Whitepaper New research from IDG shows that organizations are relying on cloud computing and recovery services to achieve positive business outcomes. Learn why it leaders are viewing the cloud as a strategic business driver. The cloud services market continues to grow and mature. Research shows that the percentage of IT services provided by third…
For: Infrastructure & Operations Professionals by Rachel A. Dines, January 17, 2014 Key Takeaways Firms Look To Outsourced Disaster Recovery Services To Improve Resiliency Today’s world of 24×7 operations is forcing I&O professionals to reconsider how they run their resiliency programs. More and more, they use a mix of in-house and outsourced resiliency. Almost one…
Core are excited to announce further development of our back end infrastructure, with the purchase and installation of an additional 200TB of EMC Atmos storage, supporting our fully managed Backup as a Service and Disaster Recovery as a Service Solutions.
For: Infrastructure & Operations Professionals by Rachel A. Dines, January 17, 2014 Key Takeaways Business Technology Resiliency Is A High Priority, But Budgets Remain Flat In today’s world of 24×7 business requirements, few companies can afford downtime, yet most are not allocating additional funds to prevent it. Traditional models for recovery are proving too expensive,…
Core are pleased to announce that our Sync and Share Managed Service is now up and running. Hosted on EMC Atmos Storage, powered by EMC Syncplicity and managed and delivered of course by ourselves, we will shortly be making this service available through the channel.
A Custom Technology Adoption Profile Commissioned By Cisco Systems Corporate Mobility Momentum Accelerates Among Enterprises The pace of enterprises deploying corporate mobility initiatives has accelerated. Enterprise IT executives are focused on supporting a fragmented array of mobile devices, applications, and operating systems to address the needs of employees. Corporate mobility momentum will continue as a…
Simple steps to protecting your IT infrastructure with VMware. 1. Simplify backup and recovery Backup and recovery are fundamental parts of every IT process and critical components in any business continuity plan. Without the right solution, an IT failure could mean hours or even days to rebuild and recover. In some cases, data could be…
White Paper 165, by Wendy Torell, Schneider Electric Data center systems or subsystems that are preassembled in a factory are often described with terms like prefabricated, containerized, modular, skid-based, pod-based, mobile, portable, self-contained, all-inone, and more. There are, however, important distinctions between the various types of factory-built building blocks on the market. This paper proposes…
Core DataCloud is pleased to announce that Ben Cuppello has joined us as our new Sales Director. Ben joins Core following a stint at Polycom where he held the position of Territory Sales Manager. Prior to Polycom Ben worked for VirtualSharp Software where, for 3 years, he was responsible for Business Development in the UK…
Symantec Corporation: Volume 18 Symantec has established some of the most comprehensive sources of Internet threat data in the world through the Symantec™ Global Intelligence Network, which is made up of approximately 69 million attack sensors and records thousands of events per second. This network monitors threat activity in over 157 countries and territories through…
An IBM Whitepaper by Randy Perry Jed Scaramella Today’s shifting trends are requiring enterprises to increase the efficiency of their IT operations to remain competitive in the market. As enterprises experience explosive growth in data, devices, and users, they are relying on their IT organizations to incorporate these elements into the IT environment and manage…
Growth of Unstructured Data The rapid growth of storage consumption, particularly for unstructured data, has driven organizations to adopt cost-effective cloud storage solutions as a substitute or complement to more expensive block or file storage systems. Beyond cost savings, cloud storage offers many benefits to organizations, such as: elastic use of storage to match changing…
Now in our second year, the survey reflects the views of over 1200 technology and digital experts across the UK. It gives a unique insight into the challenges and opportunities of the people who live and breathe technology. From CTOs to Software Developers, Enterprise Architects to digital entrepreneurs, this extensive report captures the opinions of…
The Role Of Mainframes In Cloud: To Meet The Full Range Of Reliability And Security Needs January 2013. A Forrester Consulting Thought Leadership Paper Commissioned By IBM Executive Summary Does your private cloud strategy aspire to merely accommodate lightweight, low-priority applications running on commodity servers or to handle all kinds of workloads? In October 2012,…
Findings from the IBM Global IT Study on Mobile Infrastructure Putting mobile first: best practices of mobile technology leaders is an IBM study that investigates the approaches organizations are using to support the transformational shift to mobile. The information for the study came from a global survey of 361 IT executives from seven countries, conducted…
Cloud Backup and Cloud Disaster Recovery Storage essential guide Cloud backup and DR are now viable alternatives for enterprise data protection environments. Hybrid approaches can effectively integrate on-premises systems with cloud storage services. Benefits of cloud backup and DR become more apparent Cloud storage services for backup and DR have been around for a while,…
Core DataCloud is proud to announce that the BSI have today awarded us continued accreditation to the ISO27001 Information Security Standard. Core have now been accredited since 2004. Thanks to the BSI for their efforts, and everyone who worked hard on this with us.
VMWare Top Tech Tips As VMware® vSphere® environments grow, users need proactive management that can deliver monitoring, performance and capacity information at a glance. This information empowers IT staff and vSphere administrators with immediate knowledge of issues, helps streamline problem resolution and enhances root cause analysis procedures. vCenter™ Operations Management Suite™ Standard is part of…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The spectrum of corporate risk scenarios is constantly widening and challenging IT’s ability to comply with corporate business continuity policies, sector-driven standards like ISO 22301-2012 and disaster preparedness legislation. Society’s ever increasing reliance on IT for its well-being makes it compulsory for organizations of all sizes to demonstrably be able to recover from…
Security breaches reach highest ever levels The number of security breaches affecting UK business continues to increase. The rise is most notable for small businesses; they’re now experiencing incident levels previously only seen in larger organisations. 93% of large business had a security breach last year 87% of small businesses had a security breach in…
Using Storage Snapshots for Backups By: Hani El-Qasem, Senior System Engineer, Veeam Software Introduction Effective data protection is a mandatory element in the modern IT environment. Historically, backup strategies were confined to the last few chapters in an administrator’s manual and treated like an afterthought. Now they sit firmly at the forefront of every CIO’s…
Multicompany Analysis – Project Director: Shaheen Parks (June 2013) Executive Summary In June 2013, EMC commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Isilon storage. Clustered file storage is an alternative to traditional file storage, allowing organizations to easily and effectively scale their…
Key Report Findings: 79% of channel professionals now offer some form of managed service More than half of the revenues for the channel are coming from a mix of consulting and services – product sales account for just 28% Economic conditions remain the top challenges faced by channel players across the EU – winning new…
The Forrester Wave File Sync And Share Platforms Q3 2013 by Ted Schadler and Rob Koplowitz, July 10, 2013 Key Takeaways Consumerization Has Made File Sync And Share A Must-Have Capability The explosive proliferation of powerful mobile devices has led to employee demand for solutions that will allow seamless access to enterprise content from any…
BIG DATA TRANSFORMS BUSINESS The Journey to Big Data Businesses that exploit Big Data to improve strategy and execution are distancing themselves from competitors. The Big Data solution from EMC provides market-leading, scale-out storage, a unified analytics platform, and business process and application development tools. Together, these allow organizations to draw deeper insights and become…
Core DataCloud is please to working with closely with Azlan SDG to help resellers provide the most effective cloud services for their clients. Join us for FREE on Thursday 19 September 2013 at Wembley Stadium to explore the booming cloud market and find out how your business can evolve with minimum risk or investment. You…
Core DataCloud will be at the upcoming EMC Fasten Your Seatbelts Event taking place at Lord’s Cricket Ground in September. If you are attending and would like more information about Core DataCloud and would like to meet us at the event, please get in contact.
Core are pleased to announce another exciting event with IBM and SDG (Azlan), to be held on the 19th September at Wembley Stadium. We will be attending the event with a small group of selected MSP’s, as well as IBM and SDG themselves. The format will be that of a ‘mini exhibition’, with short presentations…
Ponemon Institute, Sponsored by Thales, Ponemon Institute is pleased to present second annual Trends in Cloud Encryption Study. This research is a supplementary report that is part of a larger study entitled the 2012 Encryption in the Cloud Study published in February 2013. In this study, we surveyed 4,205 business and IT managers in the…
With EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS. This white paper gives a detailed look at the challenges organizations face as they deal with the deluge of digital content and unstructured data and the growing importance of data protection. It details how the EMC Isilon OneFS architecture provides high availability and data protection needed to meet these challenges.…
A McAfee Infographic for SMB’s Small businesses are now big targets for worldwide cybercrime, but that doesn’t mean you have to be a victim. A comprehensive yet easy-to-manage security strategy can protect your business while you focus on growing it. Click below to view the great McAfee SMB Infographic Downloads McAfee – 5 Steps to…
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…
A time for transformation – Chuck Hollis – EMC Global Marketing CTO. New technologies and technological principles like cloud computing, virtualization, and IT as a Service are reshaping the way enterprises think of information technology. Business and IT are seeking a new balance to make their collaboration work better for the good of the company.…
Updated SMB Edition Executive Summary For the first time, the Virtualization Data Protection Report 2013 looks at the challenges that Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) are facing with data protection strategies for their virtual environments. This year’s report investigates whether organizations are confident in their data protection capabilities for their virtual environments. It identifies specific…
Messaging and Unified Communications Award Winner StorageCraft is at TechEd for the very first time this week, so we are especially thrilled that we’re going home with the big trophy. StorageCraft ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange won the Best of TechEd 2013 award in the Messaging and Unified Communication category. Windows IT Pro and Microsoft…
A Research Report from Clabby Analytics Executive Summary In this Research Report, Clabby Analytics takes a closer look at IBM’s Flex System converged architecture. We compare the new Flex System advanced blade offering to its closest rival: traditional blade architecture. And what we find is that Flex System offers superior manageability, faster communications, more storage…
VMWare Disaster Recovery for Natural Disasters No business is immune to the disruption that natural disasters can cause. Take one recent case: Hurricane Sandy. The insured losses on businesses are estimated at more than $20 billion, and the total economic damage at more than $50 billion. 1 The deadly 2011 Tsunami in Japan was even…
Recovery As A Service Just about everything has been offered ‘as a service’ by now – starting with Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Communication as a Service (CaaS) – we’re almost at the stage of Service as a Service. Nonetheless there appears to be room for at least one…
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…
A Veeam Sponsored Whitepaper into Data Protection For most company executives (including CFOs and many CIOs), the protection of company data has become a “given”. Because backup software has been purchased and IT staff salaries are being paid, the assumption is that your critical data and the applications that manage it are protected. Sadly, in…
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 Data Driven Glimpse in the Burgeoning New Field As the cost of computing power, data storage, and high-bandwidth Internet access and have plunged exponentially over the past two decades, companies around the globe recognized the power of harnessing data as a source of competitive advantage. But it was only recently, as social web applications…
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…
ShadowProtect® 5 as best-in-class Full range of data backup and system recovery in seconds for all cases – StorageCraft Europe presents its innovative safety solutions at CeBIT – StorageCraft ShadowProtect® 5 as best-in-class solution for backup and disaster recovery tasks – StorageCraft ImageManager® 6 for a better business continuity – StorageCraft Cloud Services for 100%…
The 2013 Global Technology Outlook Since 1982, IBM Research’s worldwide community of top scientists has created the Global Technology Outlook (GTO). The GTO is a comprehensive analysis that identifies and evaluates significant, disruptive technology trends that will lead to industrychanging products and services over a three- to ten-year period. IBM Research considers the societal and…
Core DataCloud is currently looking to recruit prospective partners. We will be holding Round Table events throughout the year and these sessions are designed to introduce our services, the benefits of our partner program and how we engage with an organisation; providing structure, support and collateral to maximise the potential of the collaboration. The first…
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…
EMC’s IT Transformation Blueprint – Reaping the Benefits of Cloud Computing EMC Corporation’s IT organization launched a transformational journey toward cloud computing beginning in 2004. In 2009, ESG published an initial audit of EMC’s achievements, documenting their impressive initial savings on equipment and power as well as improvements in productivity, efficiency, and resource utilization. We…
Introduction There usually isn’t anything overly complicated about backing up a physical datacenter. While it’s true that some applications require special consideration, the backup process itself is usually very straightforward. After all, backups have been a common practice for decades. Even so, backups take on a new level of complexity when they are performed in…
A practical guide to more efficient data operations. Energy costs are expected to double over the next 10 years. In this time, the amount of energy consumed by data centres is also expected to double. This has serious potential to affect an organisation’s ability, whether commercial or public sector, to grow its services, expand its…
Story Highlights 6 node EMC Isilon scale-out NAS storage deployed to support cloud-based DR services Provides SMBs with previously unaffordable enterprise-class backup and recovery systems Further enhances the cost-effectiveness of Core DataCloud’s cloud-based DR initiatives LONDON, 25 MARCH 2013 — Core DataCloud, a leading UK provider of disaster recovery and business continuity solutions for small…
Virtualizing disaster recovery using cloud computing Transition your applications quickly to a resilient cloud – Not long after the widespread adoption of computers, it became apparent that disaster recovery would become a necessary com-ponent of organizations’ IT plans. Business data must be backed up, and key processes like billing, payroll and procurement need to continue…
Executive summary The Virtualization Data Protection Report 2013 builds upon the key findings from previous years to track the progress of enterprise-level organizations’ data protection strategies for their virtual environments. Where previous reports looked at broad trends around data protection before focusing more closely on specific techniques such as server replication, this year’s report investigates…
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…
Recovery Assurance is an innovative platform that uses state of the art technology to deliver enterprise class business continuity features at a lower price and with more flexibility. Backup is not Disaster Recovery Many organisations fail to realise that daily or weekly backups and the replication of data from one site to another are not…
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…
You know VMware as the virtualization company that has been the market leader for the past 11 years. In fact, according to Gartner, more than 80% of all virtualized applications in the world run on VMware today. This ebook highlights the VMware perspective on disaster recovery in the data center. But let’s forget about IT…
IT systems and data are the lifeblood of today’s businesses and yet challenges in managing these continue to rise. Against this background, EMC wanted to understand the real causes of business interruption currently facing European companies and to measure the economic impacts from IT downtime. We sought to identify how well companies felt about being…
OVERVIEW Established in 1998, Core DataCloud is a leading UK managed service provider of private cloud backup and recovery-as-a-service solutions for midmarkets. The company’s commitment to excellence, as well as an affordable pricing strategy, have resulted in dynamic growth approaching 100 percent per annum. Core DataCloud and its SMB customer base rely on next-generation IT…