ZDNet UK Disaster recovery Toolkit

From The Labs: HP's backup system put to the test

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Charles McLellan) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:56:02 +0100

Charles puts HP's latest small office backup system through its paces and the Labs Drop Test. Also: how fast is Apple's latest browser?

Plan B Disaster Recovery

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Roger Howorth) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:48:02 +0000

Plan B's disaster recovery service is particularly attractive to small and medium-sized companies with a handful of business-critical servers that need protecting with minimal effort from in-house IT staff.

McAfee online backup service offers unlimited storage

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Dong Ngo) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:07:02 +0100

The new service automatically uploads data from a computer's hard drive to a remote server via the internet, and users can back up as much data as they want

How outage triggered mayhem for hospital datacentre

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Suzanne Tindal) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:50:02 +0100

When a brief electricity failure struck a datacentre at a hospital in Australia, it started a chain of incidents that resulted in the serious outages of over 20 health applications

BBC News website taken down by hosting problems

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:08:32 +0100

The BBC's news website suffered a 20-minute outage early on Wednesday afternoon, due to problems at a London hosting centre. The heavily-used site was down between 12:20 and 12:40, at times...

Microsoft files for $6bn cash infusion

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Ina Fried) — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:52:02 +0100

While the company only specified that the money would be used for 'general corporate purposes', the filing has prompted speculation over a possible acquisition

Tesco tills go down in IT glitch

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Tom Espiner) — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:47:01 +0100

The supermarket chain had to close some stores on Monday following computer problems with its tills

Businesses urged to plan for Digital Britain

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:05:54 +0100

Nigel Brown, the lead for resilient telecommunications strategy at the Cabinet Office, told ZDNet UK at the Infosec 2009 conference on Tuesday that businesses should perform risk assessments to...

Hurricane Season Dress Rehearsal

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:41:54 +0100

Power has been out for the last 2 hours or so. The other end of the street is flooded above my car's bottom door seam so no driving around for me. Since I was stuck in the house I thought it might...

UK businesses not prepared for the unexpected

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Natasha Lomas) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:35:02 +0000

Organisations are not doing enough to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster or IT failure, a new report has warned

Does it even need to be said

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:14:03 +0000

This is undoubtedly a bunch of health professionals under ridiculously tough working conditions, working every day with potentially dangerous patients with in many cases little or nothing to lose....

Health trust loses 6,000 prisoners' data on USB stick

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Tom Espiner) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:23:01 +0000

An encrypted data stick, with the password attached to the drive on a Post-it note, has been lost at HMP Preston

Symantec, VMware team up for disaster recovery

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Tom Espiner) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:18:01 +0000

The security and virtualisation vendors will provide support for mutual customers using VMware ESX and Veritas Cluster Server

Businesses urged to devise digital-forensics plans

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Tom Espiner) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:29:02 +0000

A report from the Information Assurance Advisory Council says businesses need to have a forensics strategy to support their position in legal proceedings

Oracle adds data-integrity code to Linux kernel

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Tom Espiner) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:07:02 +0000

The enterprise-software company has collaborated with networking-hardware company Emulex to produce Linux kernel data-integrity code

Cambridge vs Oxford, Xen vs VMWare

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:19:03 +0000

Last Friday I went to the College IT Conference, which is an annual get-together of college IT managers from Oxford and Cambridge universities. Note that these are the IT managers at the...

LHC restart pushed back further

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Tom Espiner) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:47:02 +0000

The world's most powerful particle accelerator now looks likely to be operational again in late summer 2009, rather than June

Mobile broadband is 'the only redundancy'

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:55:27 +0000

This morning I went to a roundtable hosted by Easynet Connect, the SME-oriented ISP that is part of BSkyB. The topic of conversation was "Achieving Quality Internet Today", and the chat was at...

Online bank Cahoot knocked out for days

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:56:21 +0100

The online bank Cahoot appears to have gone offline. It's apparently nothing to do with the financial crisis, but rather the result of a power outage in Spain, where the parent bank Santander is...

Air-traffic-control glitch hits London area

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Staff) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:33:02 +0100

An unspecified computer problem caused major disruptions to air traffic in the south east of England, with flights delayed or cancelled at Gatwick, Heathrow and other airports

Gatwick air traffic control failure

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:05:24 +0100

Gatwick airport has suffered a brief loss of air traffic control systems this afternoon. I'm currently sat in Jersey airport, where staff announced there was a "failure of UK air traffic control"....

When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.......

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:25:44 +0100

Turns out power was restored at work on Monday but I had an insurance adjuster coming so I didn't go into work until yesterday. Of course everybody had to tell their hurricane tales but one guy...

Lessons learned or confirmed from IKE

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:32:03 +0100

Not in any particular order or priority. 1) I have some really nice neighbors. 2) Nothing beats having a gas powered chain saw. 3) You can't have enough gas to drive your AC generator. ...

BT offers on-site tech repairs to small businesses

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (David Meyer) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:03:02 +0100

The on-site hardware repair service, previously available only to BT's large corporate customers, covers problems with PCs, laptops and servers

LSE connectivity glitch halts trading

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:12:50 +0100

At the time of writing, trading on the London Stock Exchange is not happening, and hasn't been possible since before 9 o'clock this morning (trading began smoothly at 8, as usual, but something...

The Misery Tab is Paid Again by the Big Easy

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:06:38 +0100

Looks like we're (Houston area) going to miss the worst but the cost is going to be paid by New Orleans. Landfall of the eye is likely to be almost due-south of New Orleans. That means that they...

Hello Dolly! Hurricane Preparations

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:22:24 +0100

There have been some hurricanes that have hit Houston square-on, Alicia in 1983 and Allison in 2001. Alicia was notable for the damage it did to buildings due to the high winds. All the...

Taxpayer to foot bill for HMRC disc search

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Nick Heath) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:27:02 +0100

The Metropolitan Police Service aims to recover from HM Revenue & Customs the full £473,544 cost of the search for the missing child-benefit CDs

Update: Tech charity says could have saved many lives

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:37:06 +0100

Just received this update quote, to an earlier blog , from Jean-François Cazenave, president of Telecoms Sans Frontieres, commenting on the fact that the organisation announced today that it has...

Tech charity quits Burma following government blocks

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:58:15 +0100

I have just received an update that Telecoms Sans Frontieres, a charity that specialises in setting up telecoms equipment in disaster zones has quit Burma in the face of repeated attempts to block...

No cheese in Switzerland

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:35:41 +0100

It's half past one in the morning, Continental time, and I'm about to go to bed without any supper. I'm over in Zurich courtesy of IBM, which is going to be showing off a lot of its new...

HP adds fault tolerance to blades

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Colin Barker) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:45:02 +0100

High availability is the main feature of HP's latest blade server as the company grows its family of c-Class systems

Amazon blames outage on complicated systems

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Stephen Shankland) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:41:02 +0100

The company has blamed its complicated infrastucture for a site outage that left Amazon.com inaccessible to many US visitors on Friday

DWP punishes 20 staff for data-protection breaches

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Kable) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:38:02 +0100

The Department for Work and Pensions has admitted disciplining 20 staff in the past financial year over data-protection infringements

Companies told to disclose data breaches

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Nick Heath) — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:02:02 +0100

The EU's online security body is calling for mandatory reporting on security and data breaches by businesses

ICT emergency planning starts with Gatwick evac

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:33:43 +0100

I have just arrived in a damp yet picturesque Pisa to observe, and maybe even take part in an ICT Emergency response training day hosted by the World Food Programme, The United Nations Foundation...

MoD encrypts laptops after data losses

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Nick Heath) — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:25:01 +0100

The Ministry of Defence is to protect 20,000 laptops with BeCrypt's Disk Protect Baseline after a number of recent data losses

Management group warns CEOs of data-breach risks

editorial@zdnet.co.uk (Tom Espiner) — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:22:02 +0100

The British-North American Committee and chief executive of ICANN claim business leaders are not taking data breaches seriously enough

Survey scurvy

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:09:29 +0100

Everybody knows that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit and that surveys are the lowest form of marketing. But assuming that theres some whisper of truth in these things I do continue to scan many...

Data protection snake oil?

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:25:13 +0000

In the wake of the HMRC data loss fiasco, it appears that some data protection snake oil could be being hawked. Consumers are being warned by Pinsent Masons solicitors to steer clear of packs...

Surely not again!! More CDs go missing...

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:13:09 +0000

I cant quite believe this but it seems that the sh*t-storm that followed the loss of millions of individuals details by Her Majestys Revenue and Customs last year didnt get through to the UKs...

The lonesome death of data protection

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:08:17 +0000

Bob Dylan knew his protest songs. While I'm aware that the number of people who are a) interested in privacy and security issues, and b) Bob Dylan fans, is probably about two or three, what's been...

Police to stop looking for HMRC CDs

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:22:01 +0000

On Monday the police will call of the search for the two unecrypted CDs containing sensitive information on 25 million people that HMRC lost at the end of November, according to the Financial...

Mixed messages from HMRC over data loss blame

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:43:40 +0000

As the full implications of the loss of two discs containing 25 million people's personal details by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs begin to sink in, it's interesting to notice how the blame for...

Orange has wrist slapped over Data Protection breach

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:53:37 +0100

The communications giant has had a tongue-lashing from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) over a breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA). It seems that Orange customer service...

Stolen hospital laptop recovered

editorial@zdnet.co.uk — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:00:37 +0100

A laptop that was stolen from a Nottinghamshire hospital has been recovered by police, reports ITPro. The laptop contained data that included the names and addresses of hundreds of children,...