Shadow-Planner drives more effective Business Continuity Planning in a complex local government setting

With an annual budget of £2.14 billion and 1.4m citizens, Essex County Council is one of England’s largest local authorities. This is an extremely complex organisation to manage – including dealing with myriad business continuity risks and their potential impact. To protect its operations, the Council has used Shadow-Planner software for business continuity planning and management since 2010.

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Switzerland takes aim on Dropbox AWS and Azure

Switzerland is renowned as a safe place to house money. The stringent laws which govern Swiss banks are derivative of the nation’s approach to privacy, and now the country is fast becoming the ideal location for storing data too, says Mateo Meier, director at Artmotion, Switzerland’s biggest offshore hosting company.

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Cisco mentoring

Cluster, the global Cisco Learning Partner and service provider, is offering Cisco Partners a mentoring and coaching programme that will ensure they capitalise fully on their investment in elevating the effectiveness of their sales staff through the company’s unique Executive Selling Workshop series of courses.

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Red Hat announces details for EMEA Partner Conference Madrid

Three-day partner conference to discuss agenda for modernizing IT with open innovation.

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Oncore IT renews Cloud backup, disaster recovery and IT managed services contract with barristers, 29 Bedford Row Chambers

Oncore IT has renewed a three year contract with 29 Bedford Row Chambers, a London set of barristers specialising in family and matrimonial law, to provide a comprehensive outsourced IT managed service. This includes Cloud-based backup, disaster recovery, server and network hardware, SSL VPN remote access and 24/7 system monitoring and support.

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Converged Infrastructure and Blade Arrays Herald a New Storage Era

Changing business requirements, the emergence of cloud computing, as well as the need to reduce budgets, improve automation and follow strict ‘green’ policies sparked the birth of virtualization. This innovation addressed many reoccurring problems that businesses faced by increasing flexibility and resiliency of the compute infrastructure and improving management efficiency of the server administrator. Early adopters typically built their virtual infrastructure using the traditional...

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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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