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If your looking for a way to reduce IT costs and at the same time improve business efficiency moving towards virtualizing your business IT infrastructure can be the way forward. Our top four reasons to adopt virtualization may help you make up your mind:

Become more flexible – virtualization means that your business can become more flexible enabling [...]

The snow has started to melt and the temperatures are soaring to a positively tropical 7 Celsius. But with the thaw comes the risk of flooding, not necessarily rivers bursting their banks but a simple burst pipe.
Just last week one of our own team heard the sound of rushing water but couldn’t find the source [...]

According to the BBC if 1 in 10 of the UK’s working population miss a day of work it can cost the UK economy £600 million. Recent extreme weather has meant that companies have faced significant staff shortages that have led to production lines working slowly, offices closing for the day and even in some [...]

According to the Information Commissioners Office over 711 organisations have reported a loss of data in the past two years. Millions of records including medical information, financial records and banking details have gone missing through either office theft or poor data security.
One of the simplest ways of securing your data is ensuring that access to [...]

Last week over 400mm of rain fell in Cockermouth which affected over 900 homes and businesses in the town. After five days business owners were allowed back into their premises to asses the damage and for many the flood waters could see them closing for good.
Stock, fixtures and fittings can be replaced quickly but many [...]

With businesses increasingly having more data to manage than ever before, storage is becoming a greater issue and companies are now actively looking for cost-effective and manageable ways to accommodate their expanding data.
De-duplication and single-instance storage are the answer to this problem.  Simply put data de-duplication, or single-instance storage, check and compare files, if they [...]

Data backup is essential for any business looking to maintian effective business operations. But where daily, weekly and even monthly back ups were once sufficient, these methods now fall short of today’s real time data protection needs.
Tape-based backup systems can be tricky to implement and expensive to maintain – they are also notoriously unreliable. And [...]

Every month there is a news story about lost data– in fact doing a simple Google search brings up hundreds of stories from both government departments and private companies both at home and abroad.  To support this a recent survey concluded that over 70% of companies in the UK suffered from data loss in the [...]

Data loss stories in the press are a regular occurrence. Government departments, credit card companies, and even email providers are victims and many companies still don’t see the threat.
Although businesses might not be able to physically stop the theft or loss of data, there are things that can be done to help eliminate the often [...]