We are rapidly approaching the end of 2016. With it will come a million blogs prognosticating 2017 trends, setting priorities and suggesting resolutions. We are also rapidly approaching, for many, the 2017 budget cycle, the most coveted gala event of the IT year. This won’t be a blog about new promises, new plans or new resolutions.…
In our recent survey on IT Disaster Recovery in the UK, we were keen to include questions on DR testing. This is one of the most important considerations when implementing a cloud-based disaster recovery solution and, indeed, can make or break the success of any DR strategy. The mantra that our Solutions Architects like to…
What is data seeding? Many companies are experiencing the benefits of cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions with the use of Veeam Backup and Replication, Zerto and Double-Take. However, each of these solutions require the first initial backup or replica of servers – and this can be a huge speed bump for many customers. Often,…
Last week I had the privilege of speaking at a TechUK event in Newcastle, England, hosted by the Federation for Small Business and the Local Enterprise Partnership at Newcastle College. The topic of conversation was Cloud Adoption for Small and Medium businesses, and although it was an early start with the promise of bacon sandwiches,…
In our recent survey of 250 IT decision makers across the UK, we included a question on what the barriers to adopting cloud-based DR solutions are – perhaps not surprising to most readers, security and compliance topped the list. In reviewing the survey results with customers, partners and analysts, there has been general agreement that this is a market education…
There’s been a lot of talk around the water cooler lately about extremely large VMs and the pain of backing them up as well as the agony of restoring these monster VMs should the need arise. When I say agony, I am thinking of a root canal without pain killers… We all love that the…
With iland having worked with customers on their DR strategies for the past 10 years now, one of the most important aspects of DR planning that we focus on is recovery times. At first glance, it seems obvious – recovery times should be as fast as possible for all workloads at all times. However, the…
Our 2016 survey on The State of IT Disaster Recovery in the UK generated interesting results. We commissioned leading market research company, Opinion Matters, to survey 250 UK IT decision makers on their DR strategies, experiences, challenges and priorities. You can download a free copy of the full survey report here and, for easy reference, we’ve summarised the…
The IT industry loves lingo – and marketers love branding. The combination can lead to a rather cluttered wasteland of terminology that obscures meaning, rather than adding clarity. So, to strip it all back, let’s talk about the differences – in plain English – between backups, DR, and DRaaS. Definitions and Differences Backups: A backup is simply…
There are multiple services designed to backup and replicate Virtual Machines in your private or public virtual environments. However, very few are able to replicate and protect a physical server. And yet, many companies need to protect both virtual machines and physical servers because of legacy applications running on legacy infrastructure. Double-Take is an agent…
