Is Co-operation the way forward for Local Authorities?

One of the cornerstones of the Coalition Government being formed earlier this year was their promise to streamline public services in order to deliver cost savings on the nation's route out of the recession.

Part of this may come in the form of Local Authorities being given the incentive to deliver services to other areas outside of their Geographical remit - you can read more here. This would see Local Authorities recognised more as Commercial organisations and given the ability to act as such. Local Authorities would be able to cut costs by launching shared services - this would in turn enable them to hit their targets for the Carbon Reduction Scheme by sharing Data Centres instead of running and maintaining separate Data Centres.

Redstor have been working with our Local Authority partners to provide services that make their lives and jobs easier by helping them deliver shared services. Instead of each individual Local Authority investing in their own new Data Centres to power backup solutions; 85 of them now backup their data to our Data Centres through RBUSS which allows us all to save energy and have a greener approach to ICT.

Through our Remote Management & Monitoring tool CentraStage, Local Authorities can automate repetitive tasks and share knowledge pools of which tasks to automate in order to free up resources. Dozens of Local Authorities are already working in this manner to co-operate and help each other do more with less.

Business Continuity Checklist and Data Recovery Plan

Redstor has been providing backup solutions since 1998 and here is a very high level check list of what you should be addressing when considering your backup and business continuity plans:
Key questions to ask about your business?
1. Do you have a recovery process in place and most importantly is it up to date?
2. Do you backup your data every day?
3. What do you really backup and is all of your critical data protected?
4. Do you have an offsite copy of your data if you lose the primary site?
5. Can you restore to alternative hardware if necessary?
6. Can you take preventive measures for any or all of the following:
 Computer Room destruction
 Software/Hardware Vandalism
 Software Virus protection
 Prolonged absence of key personnel
 Hardware theft
 Systems operation faults
Redstor has been providing business advice on business continuity and in particular backup, recovery and archiving since 1998. Redstor also has its own online backup platform and storage cloud based in the UK and consequently the advice we provide to all our commercial end user customers is based upon actual hands on experience.
For more information on Redstor’s services please contact us on 01189 515200 or alternatively email sales@redstor.com
Farid Ouazzani