Case Study: How Agdon uses technology in its business

Agdon Associates is trying to make the best use of technology to improve and protect its business.

How a small UK based business has deployed technology to to solve its business needs

Make your New Year's Resolution be to sort out your backup system

By: Gareth Howell

31 Dec 2009

Image of exploded computer

Don't just talk about it, backup today

Pain free-(less) migration from XP to Windows 7 is possible

By: Gareth Howell

18 Dec 2009

Picture of Windows 7 Desktop Moving to Windows 7 from XP is painful: reduce it with virtualization.

Bare metal backup systems save you money

 Implementing a bare metal backup system can reduce your downtime by a day and half when you suffer a server failure

Restoring a failed server is faster if you have implemented a backup system that allows you to restore direct from a Recovery CD. A simple calculation shows this could easily be a saving of 1.5 days and a 37.5% loss in productivity

Does your company archive its data?

By: Gareth Howell

13 Oct 2009
Archiving data, opposed to backing it up, is an essential element of keeping on top of things and avoiding escalating costs.

Some Questions:

SMBs need to pay more attention to Disaster Recovery

By: Gareth Howell

30 Sep 2009

Symantec has just carried out a survey of over 1600 small and medium businesses worldwide [Symantec 2009 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey] and it reveals a sharp disconnect between how businesses perceive their own level of preparedness and how they behave when others have problems.

How long could you tolerate being without your IT

By: Gareth Howell

23 Sep 2009

According to a survey by Double-Take software, 69% of businesses state that the ".. acceptable amount of downtime for a server or application during normal business" is less than one hour ! (source UKPRwire, 158 responses)

Another 25% said one to four hours.

That's not a lot.

How long would you be prepared to wait, and what measures do you have in place to meet that Recovery Time Objective?

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How much is Business Continuity worth?

By: Gareth Howell

22 Sep 2009

For most small businesses, any investment needs to be justified, and let's acknowledge that implementing a Business Continuity Plan does require an investment. So, how much is it worth spending on BCM?

I can't give a single number, but I can help you work one out for yourself in the area of IT spend on backups.

Try this thought experiment:

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