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It has been claimed that companies that virtualise their systems benefit from increased business continuity and improved disaster-recovery functions, and it has been said this is particularly true for SMEs.
With the recent volcanic ash incident and heavy snow earlier this year there has been a heavy impact on the UK economy as billions of pounds [...]

The cloud of volcanic ash drifting across Europe from the Icelandic volcano which erupted last week, made much of the continent a no-fly zone over the last 7 days. It is still unclear how long it will take for everything to get back to normal, but with planes only just starting to fly again the [...]

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 [...]

The recently published Environmental Audit Committee’s report on carbon budgets has proposed a 42% cut in carbon emissions by 2020.
Dr Neil Bentley, CBI Director of Business Environment, said that businesses are excited by the opportunities the shift to a low-carbon economy could open up, but as world leaders did not agree a binding global deal [...]

IT Disaster recovery planning is like insurance, it’s there to protect you but you hope that it will never be needed. All too often companies forget to think about the practical things and at least put a plan together.
Developing a plan is easy so here at adept4 we’ve put together a simple 5 step plan [...]