Disaster Recovery

8February 2012, Networking SeminarDownload the presentation slidesIan Jones, NCCDarren Thomson, CTO EMEA, Symantec CorpDr Daniel Dresner, ex NCC head of information assurance standardsJames Harris, business development director, DCG GroupJon Brooks, large enterprise IDM sales manager, DellJonathan Humphrey, IT director, Codemasters Software LtdSponsored by:Information governance and the management of data ... read more..

7 July 2011, The British Library, London Information governance and the management of data is no longer just the concern of the IT department but has become a key corporate and commercial issue. Never more has it been true to consider information as the lifeblood of the organisation. We ... read more..

The Mint Hotel, Manchester, 6 July 2011Pressures remain on IT budgets and will do so for the foreseeable future it is time for organisations to think more strategically about the role and impact of technology to deliver true business transformation with improvements to the bottom line the current steady ... read more..

7 July 2011 Download the presentations Introduction (141KB PDF) Ian Jones, NCC Managing data in the era of the cloud (5.4MB PDF) Gareth Fraser-King, Head of Global Technical Enablement Symantec and Cloud ... read more..

InfrastructureAs more and more businesses of all types and sizes continue moving to the cloud for a wide range of IT solutions, the risks from a failure at any of the many cloud computing providers becomes even more important to business and IT professionals. In fact, a series of recent ... read more..

June 2011 A collection of recent NCC research, thought leadership, presentations, webinars and news to help those interested in professional development get up to speed with the key IT management issues in information assurance, security and continuity. Security issues revolving around cloud and mobile computing are hottest security topics at ... read more..

mobile security Smartphones are spreading throughout the business world. Their use is growing, not just with top executives, but with employees at all levels. Ian Kilpatrick exposes the security concerns According to Gartner, smartphone sales to end users accounted for 19% of worldwide mobile device sales in the second quarter ... read more..

managing consumer technologies As smartphones and tablets find their way into the workplace, IT departments have become increasingly concerned about the potential dangers of allowing personal devices onto the corporate network. Gareth Maclachlan, COO and founder of AdaptiveMobile, argues that CIOs should embrace their employees mobile devices, yet remain mindful ... read more..

HP explains its new software HP used the opportunity at its annual summit with financial and IT industry analysts March 1416 to flesh out the change of direction expected under new CEO Leo Apotheker. The strategy boils down to three objectives: develop and deliver a cloud services platform and solutions ... read more..

disaster recoveryDave Beesley, managing director at Network Defence, explains how implementing an easier, safer and more efficient data backup and disaster recovery solution will help businesses avoid unnecessary data loss and the risk of litigation, saving them time and money.Data backup it can be time consuming and costly; making ... read more..

The National Computing Centre's Daniel Dresner says it's time the standard for escrow is reanimated. There's something deeply suspicious about source code escrow. Only Schrdinger's cat knows what's in the box. OK. So perhaps that's not entirely accurate because if it's done properly you know what's been archived. But like ... read more..

25th March 2010 Sponsored by: Download the presentations: Emerging IT Security Trends NCC/IBM (25th March 2010) This seminar explores emerging security technology trends, and how the UK is, or isnt learning from security technology developments. Over the next few years, emerging technological and social ... read more..

As the CTO of a data protection and encryption company I hear many a tale of woe as other CTOs and CEOs confess to me the stories of how various laptops within their companies have gone astray and the destruction these lost laptops have caused in their wake. With this ... read more..

We like to think we live in a digital age but paper still plays a key role in most organisations. Yet paper documents can easily be lost or misfiled and are vulnerable to disasters like fire or floods not to mention the inefficiency and literal waste of space that ... read more..

NCC's Daniel Dresner interviewed on North West Tonight, 20th November 2009. Video courtesy of the BBC 2009 ... read more..

So how would you cope if your head office suffered at the hands of fire or some other disaster? In this special ITadviser feature, we look at the experiences of organisations who have had to deal with that very situation and assess how their business continuity plans stood up to ... read more..

Free report As the scale and importance of organisational data has grown and the regulatory requirements relating to data security have become more sophisticated, the market for off-site data, backup, and secure facilities has evolved to meet the growing needs. This research set out to address these issues and examined ... read more..