One of the sponsors of the research was virtualisation-software supplier VMware. VMware is still the comfortable leader in the virtualisation market, with 82 per cent of European companies that have adopted virtualisation using VMware software...
Virtualisation is now involved in the most trendy fields in the industry including data centre automation, utility computing, green computing, security, business continuity, blades, grid and SOA. By 2003 VMware realised the killer-app for...
Dell is honing its focus on business continuity, seeing the area as a key way to increase upgrade cycles, especially in areas such as storage. The direct vendor recently commissioned research which found 37 per cent of respondents do not plan for...
Just three per cent of IT managers claim their business continuity strategies have been affected by the events of 11 September. With the anniversary of the terrorist attacks fast approaching (and the number of security companies using it as a PR...
Multiple data centres in diverse locations, mirrored sites which can take over at the flick of a switch, "hot sites" - where staff can walk in and start working exactly as they would if they were in their normal location - and a vast amount of...
Only 53 per cent of UK companies have business continuity plans in place. It never has been and - despite the hype, the hacks, the viruses and certain terrorist-led disasters proving the need for business continuity - it looks like it never will be.