Goverment & Finance IT, Infrastructure ,Cloud Services, Application Hosting, SaaS

Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) is often the first step organisations take on the path to cloud adoption. It is a flexible, cost-effective way to deliver essential DR capability without all the CAPEX costs and pains of managing a physical DR site. With DRaaS, businesses quickly realise the benefits of cloud services, so it’s no surprise that many will consider a more permanent move to the cloud through Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). 

With the coronavirus economic crisis deepening, experts at University of Portsmouth are warning it will lead to the highest levels of fraud and cybercrime ever recorded. There are also concerns that existing preventative measures need to be reviewed urgently because they are unlikely to be sufficient to deal with the heightened threat that comes from a deep recession.

Data management solutions provider, Cohesity, has appointed Andrew Fitzgerald as sales director for Western Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. Based in the UK, Fitzgerald will lead the company’s business development strategy across the European and African markets while empowering customers and partners to embrace the company’s modern data management capabilities.

iCyber-Security has announced a major rebrand to reflect the platform’s evolution to become one of the most advanced and intelligent cyber defence technologies available.

Unitrends, a Kaseya company and the global leader of all-in-one enterprise backup and continuity solutions, announced today the launch of Unitrends Helix, a self-healing SaaS remediation platform powered by AI that monitors and automatically fixes the most common issues facing IT administrators when managing backups.

Crossword Cybersecurity Plc, the knowledge transfer company focused solely on cyber security and risk, will be collaborating with security reseller and managed security services provider Satisnet Limited (‘Satisnet’), on the provision of third-party assurance technology to its clients, as part of the expansion of Crossword’s partner programme.

Imaging solutions company Canon has appointed Tony Wills as Document Solutions Business Unit Director, Canon UK and Ireland.

Over 8 in 10 (83%) UK, US and Chinese firms are considering switching to alternative finance providers over traditional banks for trade finance this year, which can provide access to faster and more agile funding to help navigate the effects of COVID-19.

Chris Wellfair, projects director at Secure I.T. Environments, talks about how data centres are evolving with a new form factor perfect for the manufacturing and logistics sector.

Schneider Electric has announced that the Galaxy VS 3-phase Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) with internal smart battery modules now extends from 10 to 100 kW.