The UK’s Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board takes its IT disaster recovery solution to pastures new
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has planted one of the UK’s most advanced and robust IT disaster recovery systems in its Warwickshire headquarters, after appointing Leeds-based virtualDCS to design, implement and manage the solution. The innovative system has now been named the Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) Project of the Year at […]
virtualDCS shortlisted for Disaster Recovery innovation of the year
virtualDCS is excited to announce that CloudCover K8s, the latest solution to be added to the CloudCover portfolio has been officially shortlisted at the SDC Awards in the category of Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity innovation of the year. In addition to this headlining category, virtualDCS has also been shortlisted for Business Continuity / Disaster […]
Why outsourcing disaster recovery is more cost effective than moving it in-house
Times are tough. Across every economy and every sector, businesses are struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless of size, from FTSE 100 companies to SMEs, the pressure is increasing on businesses to tighten their belts. So where are companies making the cuts? Unfortunately, IT is one of the areas where many companies are trying […]
Cybersecurity Crisis Management: Business Continuity, Remote Working & Disaster Recovery during the Coronavirus Pandemic
We’ve talked a lot about viruses before, in relation to malware and ransomware. But we think this is the first time that a biological virus has had such wide-reaching technological impacts. You may have spent the last week or two rapidly transitioning your business online and setting up your whole workforce (where possible) to work […]
Simple 5-Step Disaster Recovery Planning Process for SMEs
The start of a new year is a great time to review your IT infrastructure and plan ahead for future business challenges. Effective Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning are vital to protect against major outages and other disasters. How robust are your Disaster Recovery plan and systems? If you’re reviewing your systems in line […]
Disaster Recovery FAQ
Whether its protection against file corruption, a flood or server failure, businesses should have a Disaster Recovery plan in place. This plan should be at the heart of every business, but unfortunately, many people still don’t understand the basics. To help clear the confusion we’ve compiled a blog answering the frequently asked questions around business […]
Disaster Recovery and the 3-2-1 rule
The 3-2-1 rule of Disaster Recovery has admittedly been around for a long time, but some things are timeless and the 3-2-1 rule is one of these classics. This rule could help your business overcome almost any failure scenario if you follow it correctly, but despite this, many companies still chose to ignore it and […]
Best practices for testing your disaster recovery plan
Testing a disaster recovery plan is critical to any successful business continuity strategy. Without regular testing, businesses can’t be certain that in the event of an incident all critical files can be recovered, so to help we’ve compiled some useful tips to help ensure that your organisation benefits from disaster recovery planning. Set goals and […]
Why cloud disaster recovery?
Regardless of the industry or size of your business, preserving your data is critical to its survival. 93% of organisations that lose data due to an incident are bankrupt within two years. Traditional continuity methods have been proven to be expensive, difficult to manage and increasingly unreliable. Cloud backup is now a more popular and efficient […]
How frequently should you test your Disaster Recovery strategy?
Creating a Disaster Recovery plan is essential, yet despite this fact, half of recovery plans are tested less than once a year. Recent findings suggest that businesses still fail to realise that for a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan to be effective, it needs to be regularly tested. When creating its latest Infographic, CloudVelox uncovered that […]
