One week after the world's largest IT outage, the head of CrowdStrike says nearly all impacted machines are back online
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Beating the Barbarians in the Cloud
As the cloud continues to be an essential asset for all businesses, developing and maintaining high levels of cybersecurity is essential. As threat actors expand their capabilities and widen their targets, learn how your enterprise can ...
Most Businesses Lack Confidence In Ability To Overcome Cyberattacks
Majority of businesses still not confident in ability to overcome cyber attacks, research from Palo Alto Networks finds
OVH Hints UPS Cause Of Data Centre Fire
Google meanwhile denies the fire at the OVH data centres in Strasbourg was to blame for the outage of Google and YouTube in Russia
Data Centre Fire Blamed For Russia Google Outage
Fire in a French data centre causes outage of Google and YouTube services for people in Russia, as well as disruption for other online services
Only A Third Have Full Confidence In Disaster Recovery Capabilities
Databarracks survey finds 8 percent of UK businesses are not all confident of their disaster recovery plans
British Airways IT Systems Glitch Causes Bank Holiday Flight Chaos
Inquest begins after BA aimed to run all flights from Gatwick and most from Heathrow on Monday
Researchers Release WannaCry Decryption Tool
Users may be able to recover files without paying a ransom using a tool that searches a system's memory to recover the decryption key
Barts Health Trust Cancels Operations Due To IT Failure
A 'major' computer failure beginning on 20 April has led to a number of systems being inaccessible to clinical staff
What Even Is World Backup Day And Why Is It Important?
We take a look at the origins of World Backup Day and why businesses should take it seriously
Microsoft Previews Azure VM Backup Pre-Checks
Azure will now evaluate cloud virtual machine backups for configuration problems that may cause them to fail
Amazon Reveals Human Error Was Behind S3 Service Outage
Human error revealed to be behind S3 outage as Amazon promises to make changes and learn from the event
Q&A: Weathering The Storm With Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery
Don't let adverse weather conditions impact your business continuity
ING Bank Data Centre Taken Offline By Noisy Fire System
Loud noise emitted during a fire drill destroyed dozens of hard disk drives at an ING Bank data centre
Web Hosting Site Squarespace Suffers Major Outage
Over a million Squarespace sites are down following second major hosting service downtime in the last week
A Close Look At Leaders In Rapidly Growing DRaaS Market
DRaaS offers business continuity by enabling data backup, recovery and retrieval. It is the process of replicating virtual servers to protect and back up data
UK Hosting Giant 123 Reg ‘Deletes’ Customer Sites
123 Reg, the UK's biggest domain name registrar, said it has mistakenly deleted an unspecified number of the 1.7 million sites it hosts
How To Create A Disaster Recovery Strategy
Richard Blanford, managing director, Fordway, examines how companies should tackle disaster recovery
DRaaS Awakens: Disaster Recovery Lessons From Star Wars
Sharon Moses, director of marketing at Quorum believes R2D2 and DRaaS have more in common than you might think
General Election 2015: Two-Fifths Of London Boroughs ‘Unprepared’ For Election IT Disaster
FOI requests show many London boroughs haven't tested their disaster recovery plans for over a year ahead of 2015 General Election
Google, Skype Lead Efforts To Find And Help Nepal Earthquake Victims
As many as 10,000 could be dead following disaster
Fujitsu Goes All Flashy With Eternus DX200F
Flash performance at an affordable price? Yes according to Fujitsu with its new all-flash storage array
IT Life: Going The Extra Mile
AT&T's Network Disaster Recovery Director tells us about the challenges of running a potentially life-saving institution
How AT&T Is Helping To Overcome A Hurricane
We take a trip to AT&T’s national disaster recovery centre to learn how to get a devastated area back on its feet
NASA: In Space No One Can Afford To Fail
We can all learn from how NASA plans for failures, says Sean Michael Kerner
Banks Must Not Take The Internet For Granted
Banks and other bodies can be hit badly if their Internet service fails, warns Stephen Bonner
Google Offers Online Help For Philippines Typhoon Victims
Google launches online services and tools to help victims of the devastating Typhoon Yolanda
Restoring Data Isn’t Rocket Science
Recovery experts can get data back from space debris. Luckily Wayne Rash's problem wasn't so extreme
CA Partners ExaGrid For Midmarket Backup
CA Technologies and ExaGrid combine their backup/recovery software into one customised appliance
Google Issues Crisis-Response To Oklahoma Tornado
Google creates a crisis-response Web page to assist the tornado-devastated Oklahoma region