From The Labs: HP's backup system put to the test 
Video Charles puts HP's latest small office backup system through its paces — and the Labs Drop Test. Also: how fast is Apple's latest browser? [19 Jun 2009]
BBC News website taken down by hosting problems
Blog The BBC's news website suffered a 20-minute outage early on Wednesday afternoon, due to problems at a London hosting centre. The heavily-used site was down between 12:20 and 12:40, at times... [10 Jun 2009]
Microsoft files for $6bn cash infusion
News While the company only specified that the money would be used for 'general corporate purposes', the filing has prompted speculation over a possible acquisition [12 May 2009]
Tesco tills go down in IT glitch
News The supermarket chain had to close some stores on Monday following computer problems with its tills [11 May 2009]
Businesses urged to plan for Digital Britain
Blog Nigel Brown, the lead for resilient telecommunications strategy at the Cabinet Office, told ZDNet UK at the Infosec 2009 conference on Tuesday that businesses should perform risk assessments to... [28 Apr 2009]
Hurricane Season Dress Rehearsal
Blog Power has been out for the last 2 hours or so. The other end of the street is flooded above my car's bottom door seam so no driving around for me. Since I was stuck in the house I thought it might... [19 Apr 2009]
UK businesses not prepared for the unexpected
News Organisations are not doing enough to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster or IT failure, a new report has warned [20 Mar 2009]
Does it even need to be said
Talkback This is undoubtedly a bunch of health professionals under ridiculously tough working conditions, working every day with potentially dangerous patients with in many cases little or nothing to lose.... [13 Jan 2009]
Health trust loses 6,000 prisoners' data on USB stick
News An encrypted data stick, with the password attached to the drive on a Post-it note, has been lost at HMP Preston [12 Jan 2009]
- Does it even need to be said - Andrew Meredith
Symantec, VMware team up for disaster recovery
News The security and virtualisation vendors will provide support for mutual customers using VMware ESX and Veritas Cluster Server [10 Dec 2008]
Businesses urged to devise digital-forensics plans
News A report from the Information Assurance Advisory Council says businesses need to have a forensics strategy to support their position in legal proceedings [03 Dec 2008]
Oracle adds data-integrity code to Linux kernel
News The enterprise-software company has collaborated with networking-hardware company Emulex to produce Linux kernel data-integrity code [03 Dec 2008]
Cambridge vs Oxford, Xen vs VMWare
Blog Last Friday I went to the College IT Conference, which is an annual get-together of college IT managers from Oxford and Cambridge universities. Note that these are the IT managers at the... [02 Dec 2008]
LHC restart pushed back further
News The world's most powerful particle accelerator now looks likely to be operational again in late summer 2009, rather than June [28 Nov 2008]
Mobile broadband is 'the only redundancy'
Blog This morning I went to a roundtable hosted by Easynet Connect, the SME-oriented ISP that is part of BSkyB. The topic of conversation was "Achieving Quality Internet Today", and the chat was at... [27 Nov 2008]
Online bank Cahoot knocked out for days
Blog The online bank Cahoot appears to have gone offline. It's apparently nothing to do with the financial crisis, but rather the result of a power outage in Spain, where the parent bank Santander is... [16 Oct 2008]
Air-traffic-control glitch hits London area
News An unspecified computer problem caused major disruptions to air traffic in the south east of England, with flights delayed or cancelled at Gatwick, Heathrow and other airports [25 Sep 2008]
Gatwick air traffic control failure
Blog Gatwick airport has suffered a brief loss of air traffic control systems this afternoon. I'm currently sat in Jersey airport, where staff announced there was a "failure of UK air traffic control".... [25 Sep 2008]
When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.......
Blog Turns out power was restored at work on Monday but I had an insurance adjuster coming so I didn't go into work until yesterday. Of course everybody had to tell their hurricane tales but one guy... [25 Sep 2008]
Lessons learned or confirmed from IKE
Blog Not in any particular order or priority. 1) I have some really nice neighbors. 2) Nothing beats having a gas powered chain saw. 3) You can't have enough gas to drive your AC generator. ... [18 Sep 2008]
BT offers on-site tech repairs to small businesses
News The on-site hardware repair service, previously available only to BT's large corporate customers, covers problems with PCs, laptops and servers [18 Sep 2008]
LSE connectivity glitch halts trading
Blog At the time of writing, trading on the London Stock Exchange is not happening, and hasn't been possible since before 9 o'clock this morning (trading began smoothly at 8, as usual, but something... [08 Sep 2008]
The Misery Tab is Paid Again by the Big Easy
Blog Looks like we're (Houston area) going to miss the worst but the cost is going to be paid by New Orleans. Landfall of the eye is likely to be almost due-south of New Orleans. That means that they... [31 Aug 2008]
Hello Dolly! Hurricane Preparations
Blog There have been some hurricanes that have hit Houston square-on, Alicia in 1983 and Allison in 2001. Alicia was notable for the damage it did to buildings due to the high winds. All the... [26 Jul 2008]
Taxpayer to foot bill for HMRC disc search
News The Metropolitan Police Service aims to recover from HM Revenue & Customs the full £473,544 cost of the search for the missing child-benefit CDs [21 Jul 2008]
- The Taxpayer ALWAYS pays - Andrew Meredith
Update: Tech charity says could have saved many lives
Blog Just received this update quote, to an earlier blog , from Jean-François Cazenave, president of Telecoms Sans Frontieres, commenting on the fact that the organisation announced today that it has... [25 Jun 2008]
Tech charity quits Burma following government blocks
Blog I have just received an update that Telecoms Sans Frontieres, a charity that specialises in setting up telecoms equipment in disaster zones has quit Burma in the face of repeated attempts to block... [25 Jun 2008]
No cheese in Switzerland
Blog It's half past one in the morning, Continental time, and I'm about to go to bed without any supper. I'm over in Zurich courtesy of IBM, which is going to be showing off a lot of its new... [24 Jun 2008]
HP adds fault tolerance to blades
News High availability is the main feature of HP's latest blade server as the company grows its family of c-Class systems [17 Jun 2008]
Amazon blames outage on complicated systems
News The company has blamed its complicated infrastucture for a site outage that left Amazon.com inaccessible to many US visitors on Friday [09 Jun 2008]
