http://www.planbdr.co.uk Plan B weblog on Business Continuity, Disaster recovery, and IT security issues Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:23:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Plan B DR Service is now available directly in the US. Plan B, has licensed its technology to Weidenhammer, a US-based IT services company who are offering the Plan B DR service under the US brand name of vRescue. The US Rescue Silo is operational and already protecting customers. Plan ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/plan-b-announce-launch-of-us-service/ Plan B provided cover for a number of customers effected by last week's flood and subsequent fire at BT's aptly named 'Burne House' exchange in London. The outage effected at least 437 local exchanges and over 37,000 data circuits, and took BT four days to fully recover from. If it hadn't ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/burne-house-fire/ The review can be found at: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/security-appliances/355855/plan-b-disaster-recovery It is also repeated below: Verdict Plan B can ensure your business will be a success and not another sorry statistic in the event of a disaster Review Date: 25 Feb 2010 Price when reviewed: £1,315 (£1,545 inc VAT) UK-based Plan B aims to take the pain and expense out ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/pc-pro-magazine-recommend-plan-b/ Plan B are delighted to announce that they have recently passed an independent audit for their ISO27001 Information Security Management accreditation. Plan B were audited by the British Standards Institute in November as part of the continuous assessment requirements of the ISO standard. http://www.planbdr.co.uk/plan-b-passes-iso27001-accreditation/ Kibble IT grateful of Plan B DR’s recovery solution that ensured its business continuity during an incident Based in High Wycombe, Kibble IT specialises in pro-active support & maintenance of existing bespoke systems and is adapting to meet ever changing industry demands for household names such as Avis Europe and the ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/kibble-it-invocation-case-study/ Traditionally IT Disaster recovery (DR) solutions have been complicated and expensive, or cheap and ineffective. However, virtualisation technology is bringing about a revolution in IT DR, promising dramatically cheaper and more effective solutions. Drawbacks of traditional disaster recovery provisions Why have so many organisations historically failed to prepare properly for IT disasters? ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/cheaper-faster-better-virtualisation/ One in three mid-sized companies in the UK does not have a disaster recovery plan in place for their website, according to recent research commissioned by managed hosting services provider NetBenefit. With nearly three quarters of mid-sized UK companies now doing business online, the researchers argued that this represents a serious ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/uk-firms-ignoring-disaster-recovery/ Plan B's managed Disaster Recovery service has been shortlisted for this year's Business Continuity Awards in the 'Most Innovative Solution of the Year' category. The Business Continuity Awards recognise excellence within the field of business continuity and operational risk management. They will be presented in the Great Room at Grosvenor House ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/plan-b-disaster-recovery-shortlisted-for-business-coninuity-awards-2009/ Bob Tarzey, in Computer Weekly 24/3/09, writes: Plan B Disaster Recovery lowers the cost of business continuity Author: Bob Tarzey Posted: 10:37 24 Mar 2009 Topics: Business Continuity Most users must have had one of those bad PC days, when you arrive at work enthused to complete a task, only to end up spending the ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/computer-weekly-plan-b-disaster-recovery-lowers-the-cost-of-business-continuity/ This review was carried out by ZDNet in the first week of December 2008. It is reproduced below with the permission of ZDNet, and can be found on the ZDNet site at: http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/networking/0,1000000696,39574100,00.htm 8.0  Editors' Rating  Service & support 8.0 Features 7.0 Setup & ease of use 9.0 Performance 8.0 Roger Howorth ZDNet.co.uk Published: 08 Dec 2008 Running an IT infrastructure ... http://www.planbdr.co.uk/zdnet-review-plan-b-service-as-excellent/