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A recent study carried out by Tripwire has found that a startling number of businesses throughout the UK are failing to meet the required standards of the payment card industry (P.C.I.) Of the one hundred retail, financial services and hospitality businesses surveyed, only 11% of the companies were currently audited and certified as compliant. 57% [...]

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 [...]

Credit card users are once again facing up to the fact that their plastic friends may no longer be as secure as they thought they were. Research by the University of Cambridge, which was demonstrated on Newsnight, showed how a stolen credit card could be used to buy goods in a retail store by fooling the system [...]

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 [...]

The MOD is once again in the firing line for the loss of yet another laptop. The device, which was reported lost in November, was stolen from within the highly secure MOD building in London and efforts to find it have failed.
Data loss through theft is one of the most common ways UK businesses lose [...]

Once again personal private data has gone missing from a local council meaning that someone, somewhere has got hold of information that could be used for fraud. St Albans Council are now “troubled” by the loss but have yet to announce what they will do to ensure that it does not happen again.
Simple laptop security [...]

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 [...]