Disaster Recovery
IT outages biggest business worry: survey
Poll spanning the globe asked leaders what might keep them up at night
Flooded with data disaster
Janette Martin says too few businesses have adequate disaster recovery plans in place
When a company founder returns
Serguei Beloussov explains why he decided to retake the reins at Acronis and what he hopes to achieve
Cloud provider Iomart buys BTL backup for £23m
Seven-year-old Leeds DR firm swallowed by growth from Glasgow
Data wipeout trickier than some think
Phil Bridge thinks the channel could do more to help customers avoid data breach scandals
Carry on, king or queen
If Aad Dekkers were on the throne, a typically British taste in humour and a positive attitude would ensure global success
Risky recovery and gambling with disaster
In recessionary times, VARs should still consider customers' need to protect against the worst, says James Carnie
No reason to panic over periodic cloud outages
Larry Walsh says there will be availability issues -- but it's not necessarily a problem
Time for a new backup and recovery pricing model?
Chris Gonsalves examines a newer pricing regime for advantages to the future channel
Gunning for the mighty
Prince William need not concern himself with trivialities such as a bald patch, suggests keen pilot Phil Gunning
State SMB focus is not positive discrimination
Small firms are agile and cost effective, argues Peter Groucutt
Selling cloud services and avoiding culture clash
Ian Masters talks about migration to cloud and long-term customer opportunities
A very private practice
As global financing suffers increasing scrutiny and calls for change, the Swiss appear to be banking on data instead. Is there a market to be addressed?
Assess your customer's cloud security risk
Stephane Estevez asks whether the issue of cloud security is primarily a red herring
Lightning may well strike your customer
All UPS is not created equal, argues Christophe Jammes
Navigating backup management hazards
Robert Winter looks at how to improve backup management
That data recovery threat has gone mobile
A closer look at the opportunity in consumerisation and mobile tech, by Robert Winter
Storing up problems
Nearly as fast as files can be backed up, the technology to create and read them goes out of date. Fleur Doidge asks about the channel opportunity
Acronis welcomes new UK managing director
Ex-Informatica and CommVault man Rick Powles takes the reins in the UK and Ireland
Avnet expands IBM data management portfolio
Complementary Actifio offering allows data copied once to be used multiple ways
Where to draw the line?
Rik Ferguson asks who can genuinely be held liable when software vulnerabilities cannot ultimately be eliminated
Trying for the middle way
Phelim Scallon likes to travel straight down the centre -- on the roads, at work, and at play
Game on for channel businesses
As London 2012 gets into full swing, some resellers have already reported an associated uptick in sales. Fleur Doidge reports
Be prepared
On 27 July the Olympics will kick off in London and at various venues around the south east. Sara Yirrell looks at some of the steps firms in the area have taken to ensure it is business as usual