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 [...]

It’s such a great word, we like to know our home security is monitored, or our health is monitored, or what our children (young as they might be) are viewing on the internet is monitored. It follows that we like our IT systems being monitored, but what should we be expecting? For us, it comes [...]

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 [...]