SMEs prioritise disaster recovery

Disaster Recovery is steadily rising up the list of priorities for SMEs, report Vnunet.com. Dr Johannes Scholtes, CEO of ZyLAB, says: "Given recent events around the world, every organisation with more than 100 employees is now actively looking into disaster recovery.

"In fact, there is a general feeling that SMEs now recognise that data recovery procedures are just one part of a company`s protective armoury. In reality they are only as good as the archived information they have access to at any given moment."

A new survey has found that Irish businesses are ahead of other European countries in preparedness for business continuity, reports SiliconRepublicNews.

According to research undertaken by Coleman Parkes on behalf of Citrix, 52% of Irish companies provide systems that would allow staff to keep working in the event of a business interruption, a far higher figure than in France (21%), Italy (25%) and Germany (33%).

HP has selected CBL Data Recovery Technologies as the data recovery services partner for HP in Australia, China, India, Singapore and Taiwan, reports Continuity Central.

Under the terms of a marketing alliance, HP Service Centre and HP Contract Centre Agents will refer existing HP customers to CBL for data recovery services when hard drives, tapes and other storage media fail and data residing on these devices is inaccessible.