Maintain business uptime with hosted disaster recovery Posted by Ben Pinder on 26/10 at 10:00 AM Data centre,
Disaster recovery,
In days gone by, and still relevant for certain organisations today, businesses used to rely on a primary server infrastructure hosted on site at their offices or in a data centre with a secondary solution hosted at a different physical location. This gave them the disaster recovery...
Just over a year ago, the words ‘COVID-19’, ‘lockdown’ and ‘social distancing’ had no place in our day-to-day diction. We did not live in bubbles or watch the Prime Minister wheel out health experts for daily updates. If we wanted to have dinner with friends, we simply invited them...
In this short video, I am going to take you through a tour of our trademarked product, OXO Cloud Connect. There are so many cloud-hosted phone systems on offer that the choice can be bewildering. Many of them suffer from a lack of functionality, as well as being reliant on public data...
We all felt a second lockdown was coming. The rising number of cases of COVID-19 and the increase in people being admitted into hospital led Boris Johnson to his announcement on Saturday night to the dismay of most people who were watching. Among the most disappointed will be the...
Like all businesses, law firms had to adopt remote working strategies throughout lockdown and into these socially-distanced times, but is this a habit that’s here to stay? I have friends who are partners of law firms and home working has become the new norm for them. They can even...
07/08 2020
What are the advantages of using a local data centre post-lockdown? Posted by Caroline Moore on 07/08 at 10:00 AM Data centre,
Disaster recovery,
IT services,
I wrote the original blog with the title What are the advantages of using a local data centre? back in 2013 and it remains one of our most popular blog posts to date, often leading to enquiries from businesses and organisations that need a hosting facility. Since then, more people...
The coronavirus pandemic forces businesses to close their offices to meet the Government’s social distancing rules. This saw more people than ever are working from home.In April 2020, statistics released by the UK's Office for National Statistics showed 49.2% of adults in...
19/06 2020
Video blog: Using a data centre to keep your distributed workforce connected Posted by Colin Woods on 19/06 at 10:00 AM Cloud services,
Data centre,
In this video I explain how COVID-19 has immeasurably changed our world with some offices lying largely empty with staff working from home. This has put pressure on our office-based servers that may no longer receive the care, attention and security they once had when the office...
29/05 2020
Use a data centre to keep your distributed workforce productive Posted by Colin Woods on 29/05 at 10:00 AM Cloud services,
Data centre,
No-one would have envisaged the move to homeworking would have been driven by COVID-19. We are witnessing a change in the way we work, not just today, but for some time to come, maybe even forever. This could be a sea change moment in the standard working day for most of...
20/05 2020
Data centres give security in the place of empty offices Posted by Colin Woods on 20/05 at 10:00 AM Cloud services,
Data centre,
Our working world has changed radically with one of the main changes inflicted by lockdown being that many of our offices are empty. One of the things we need to consider is that if our offices are going to be occupied less, should we be thinking about what is residing in the office,...