http://www.planbdr.co.uk Plan B weblog on Business Continuity, Disaster recovery, and IT security issues Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:01:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Plan B has conducted a survey to analyse the key factors that cause major SME IT incidents - resulting in service failures. The findings reveal that human error accounted for 47% of incidents, followed by server failures at 29% and power and communications provider failure at 15%. Fire, flood or ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/plan-b-survey-reveals-human-error-causes-most-it-disasters/ Plan B Disaster Recovery are delighted to announce that it has just had its ISO 27001 - Information Security Management accreditation renewed for a further three years. The renewal follows an extensive audit by the British Standards Institute that found no 'non-conformities' in any area of Plan B's operation. Tim Dunger, Plan ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/plan-b-pass-iso27001-renewal/ Plan B and Star provide iRed with a winning combination - 100% guaranteed disaster recovery and data centre service - replacing an unprotected, collocation provision     iRed Partnership are a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Mail Group, headquartered in London. iRed offers a robust and transparent document ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/post-office-subsidiary-ired-partnership-choose-plan-b/ By 2014, 30% of midsize companies will have adopted "recovery-as-a-service" (RaaS), or "recovery-in-the-cloud" as it is also known, up from about 1 percent today, according to Gartner, Inc. RaaS describes the managed replication of virtual machines (VMs) and production data in a service-provider's cloud, together with the means to activate the ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/growth-of-recovery-in-the-cloud/ Trusted shortlist of UK-based firms to provide end-to-end cloud services London, 5th July, 2011 – Plan B, today announces that it is one of the founding members of a brand new initiative to bring clarity and trust to UK businesses looking to procure cloud services. The UK Cloud Alliance, a collective ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/plan-b-joins-uk-cloud-alliance/ Plan B were runners up for this years Business Continuity Awards 'Specialist business continuity and disaster recovery company of the year'. Given the progress we have made over the last year - customer base up by 250% and increased and revenues up by 226%, whilst keeping a 100% customer satisfaction ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/plan-b-runners-up-for-2011-specialist-busines-continuity-company-of-the-year/ Businesses lose an average of 545 working hours a year due to IT downtime, according to a survey. A survey of 2,000 organisations in North America and Europe, including 200 CIOs and senior IT managers, conducted by research firm Coleman Parkes on behalf of CA Technologies, finds businesses collectively lose more ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/more-than-127-million-working-hours-lost-to-it-downtime-every-year/ http://www.planbdr.co.uk/failure-of-volume-snapshot-services-vss-is-one-of-the-commonest-reasons-for-backups-and-offsite-snapshotting-to-fail-continuous-testing-will-catch-this-and-almost-all-other-service-affecting-issues/ http://www.planbdr.co.uk/plan-b-carried-out-around-8000-individual-test-restores-of-recovery-servers-last-month/ http://www.planbdr.co.uk/plan-b-have-a-100-invocation-record-because-of-plan-bs-testing-regime-we-have-never-failed-to-be-able-to-instantly-boot-up-fully-working-systems-for-a-customer-in-teh-event-of-an-emergency/