You might remember the It’s A Disaster article from March last year. In this article we talked about the need to have a solid, working disaster recovery (DR) plan in place before disaster strikes. You’ve probably got a fire evacuation plan, but do you have a power outage plan? Or a server failure plan? How [...]

How often are you able to run your backups? How long does each backup take to complete? Is it acceptable for a single backup to occur daily or weekly with the probability of losing a full day or weeks’ worth of work? Can the server handle multiple backups being run daily? Can your data be [...]

You may have heard the terms Virtual Computer or Virtual Machine. Sounds like an old Claytons advertisement, doesn’t it? “The computer you have when you’re not having a computer!” Actually it’s an increasingly important concept. Virtualisation was first implemented more than 30 years ago by IBM as a way to logically partition mainframe computers into [...]