How to make the most of a tight IT budget
A recent article showed that US businesses may have to reassess their IT budget as they take a 20% hit due to a strong US dollar. We know this won’t affect everyone, especially in the UK, but who doesn’t want to free up more capital to make their budget go further. In this article, we […]
Why northern data centres appreciate the cold.
From 100 GB a day in 1992 to 28,000 GB per second in 2013. The internet has rapidly grown and managed to find a way into almost every aspect of our lives. However, all this information needs somewhere to live and grow. The data centre industry has opted to take the load for this inconceivable […]
Safe harbour is in troubled waters
Back at the start of the noughties in 2000 the EU and the US made a deal called the Safe Harbour. The deal allows US firms to take and process data from Europe without breaking EU rules. The ruling essentially meant that personal data from the EU couldn’t be transferred or processed if it didn’t […]
4 Musts for any data security strategy
1. Data theft can happen to anyone, regardless of your security level. You could put a 20-foot wall around your Office, but someone has a 21-foot ladder. Recently there were the scandals in the US surrounding Sony, Home Depot and Target, which just goes to show security breaches can happen to anyone. As you can […]
Myths could be clouding your judgement about implementing cloud services
Cloud computing is a hot subject at the moment, with more and more business contemplating the move. However, talk grows into discussions and information is being increasingly passed around. It is no surprise that misconceptions and myths start to sprout. Making decisions based on facts is imperative if you want to make the correct decision […]
3 Things you must consider in any data backup solution?
Your business needs to be able to go back in order to keep going forward. If something happened to your applications or data; you need a backup to restore your business back to functioning normally. Data backup is always a matter of when, not if. Something will happen it’s just how bad. There are millions […]
Rip off Britain? UK data centres are most expensive in Europe.
The UK is the largest data centre market in Europe, offering more capacity and power than anywhere else, according to TCL (Tariff Consultancy Ltd). Unfortunately, the data centres are the most expensive here. The TCL report was based on the analysis of 300 data centres facilities from 150 providers. London/ M25 region makes up for […]
5 simple steps that can help you avoid an IT disaster
You don’t have a crystal ball and you can’t be everywhere at once, so if an IT disaster happens, properly informed users can be the first line of defence. Here are some really simple rules and policies your business should have in place that are really easy to implement if you haven’t already applied them. […]
Losing hours, days, years of work could soon be a thing of the past.
MIT researchers have created a system that can never lose data. Well, the data will always be recoverable. The team of six will showcase the system that is mathematically guaranteed not to lose data during crashes in October at the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. In an operating system (OS) the file system […]
Lets Work Together – The importance of collaboration
Netflix is moving to the cloud, they have announced they will be moving their last on-premises data centre into Amazon Web Services (AWS). Netflix already run their most of their internal applications and customer facing business off AWS, but they are now looking to move their video archive and backup away from its own infrastructure. […]
