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It is a common misconception that data centres simply provide you with storage for your business data and applications when really, data centres are so much more. To illustrate what we mean, we must first jump across to San Diego, California, where the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) has unveiled a new project to help beat cancer. (more…)
In our continuing mission to provide our customers with the best possible service, we at BIS have recently upgraded a number of customers’ private cloud platforms to VMware’s vSphere 5. The platform promises to deliver increased application availability and control and an even faster, more seamless connection.
But how have VMware managed to achieve this? What benefits does vSphere 5 offer? (more…)
The Risks of Running Your Own Comms Room
Have you weighed the positive and negative potential of maintaining your data centre on the same site as your office? You must be sure to evaluate all sides before making this important decision.
39% of firms in the UK host their data centre in-house… but more than three out of every five firms decided to colocate. Why have so many firms decided not to keep all operations in-house? To determine this, take a look at why the other two out of five firms may not be on board with colocation just yet. (more…)
From late July, London will host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games and we are sure to expect a busy time for both human and web traffic.
With an estimated 10,500 competitors from over 200 National Olympic Committees attending, the capital’s population will swell as millions of spectators from around the world flock to London. (more…)
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world’s leading research organisations, has published some startling figures about business on the Internet. If the Internet were an economy, its business would be the fifth largest economy in the world, behind only the United States, China, India and Japan. It is no less startling in the UK, where Internet business is already the fifth largest economic sector, already ahead of healthcare, construction and education. But BCG makes clear that this is just the beginning. The UK web economy is growing at 10.9%; well ahead of the 8.1% average for other G20 economies. In 2010, more than 12.5% of all UK retail trade was conducted on the Internet. By 2016 this is expected to grow to 23%. (more…)
Moving your data centre from in-house to a colocation provider makes increasing economic sense. The economies of scale provided by a specialist environment, particularly with rising costs in energy and 24/7 support and security, can no longer be ignored. But despite the logic and clear advantages, the actual commitment can be daunting. Uprooting the IT infrastructure on which your business depends and transferring it to a different location is worrying, to say the least.
But it needn’t be. The solution is in detailed planning and strict project management, coupled with the experience to see it through. To help companies considering just such a move, but perhaps a bit worried about the unknown, we’ve compiled a checklist of what’s entailed. (more…)
Listed below are some of the problems customers have faced, and the solutions provided by Exchange 2010.
Our mailboxes keep growing organically, which has caused our time restore time for database and mailboxes to break SLA – and our storage growth is costing us a fortune.
With the adoption of Disaster Availability Groups (DAG), Microsoft Exchange 2010 can provide mailbox high availability with no need for a SAN. (more…)
