Redstor wins cloud services for business award

As part of EMC's record breaking launch of their unified storage suite of products, today they hosted a Partner launch event. This was attended by a number of Redstor employees and alongside the launch of unified storage, there were also further details released about EMC Atmos. EMC Atmos is the new cloud software behind Redstor's new cloud storage services - Redstor Cloud Silo, Redstor Cloud NAS and Redstor Cloud Drive.

Redstor's cloud storage services enable organisations to scale up or down their storage requirements in line with their business requirements as well as mitigate risks and gain greater financial control with predictable costs.

EMC have recognised the hard work and development Redstor have put in on this journey to the cloud thus far, which has resulted in Redstor winning "EMC's cloud innovation partner of the year" award.

Tony Ruane, Redstor's Business Development Director said, "We're really pleased that our efforts have been recognised and foresee 2011 to be a year of significant growth around our cloud services."

Let this be the first of many recognitions we receive for blazing a trail in the cloud industry!

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Redstor Cloud Storage is an easy to use online storage solution providing business-grade storage over the internet or a secure dedicated link that scales up and down to any capacity and allows you to pay only for the storage you use. It offers elastic capacity on demand and allows access to your stored data at any time and from anywhere.

Typically suited to data that doesn't requite high performance access such as user data, file based archives, infrequently accessed files or backup data. You no longer need to purchase, implement and manage physical storage systems in your own data centre thus you can avoid capital outlays, purchasing delays and reduce your IT costs. Instead, you pay as a monthly operating expense much in the same way you would any other utilities.

Redstor Cloud Storage is always available and so it only takes minutes to setup and expands as you use it. Storage maintenance tasks such as backup, data replication and expansion become Redstor's responsibility allowing you to mitigate risks and focus on your core business.

ICO takes action against Google

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) have written to the world's leading search engine Google to advise them their recent Google Street View project significantly breached the Data Protection Act.

Since April 2010, The ICO have had the power to impose fines of up to £500,000 on organisations who breach the Data Protection Act. Within this legislation includes specific reference to the encryption of data.

"Organisations can minimise the risks of security breaches involving personal information by ensuring that all portable media devices containing personal information are encrypted. Staff must be adequately trained and organisations should give proper consideration to restricting staff from downloading large volumes of data onto memory sticks and other portable devices. All personal information held within buildings and offices should be protected by adequate security arrangements to prevent theft or the loss of the data."

The full legislation is available on the ICO website.

Google's breach is so far the highest profile case and has resulted in Christopher Graham, who is appointed as Information Commissioner by HM The Queen writing directly to Google, who will now have to sign an indemnity to appear on the ICO's website as well as be subject to a full ICO audit. Christopher Graham said, "It is my view that the collection of this information was not fair or lawful and constitutes a significant breach of the first principle of the Data Protection Act."

"The most appropriate and proportionate regulatory action in these circumstances is to get written legal assurance from Google that this will not happen again - and to follow this up with an ICO audit."

2 of Redstor's leading cloud services include full end to end encryption. Redstor Protector combines laptop encryption, device trace, remote data deletion, automatic backup and port access control. This enables organisations to fully lockdown their laptops in the event of them being lost or stolen. You can find out more about how Redstor Protector can help you protect your data by downloading our whitepaper here.

Redstor Online Backup is an automated backup service, your data is sent over your existing internet connection to one of our secure Data Centres before mirroring to our secondary Data Centre for Disaster Recovery purposes. From the moment the data leaves your site, whilst in transit and right the way through until it resides in our Data Centres; it's fully encrypted to give you that peace of mind your data is secure and protected off-site.

If you're unsure of the current level of protection for your data then you should call the Data Protection specialists Redstor on 0118 9515 200.

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Tape is dead, long live the cloud

Sony announced yesterday that after 30 glorious years, they will no longer be producing their iconic Walkman which plays cassette tapes.

This is further vindication that "The Digital age" is setting in and transforming the way in which data and media is consumed and used. Long gone are the days when people would listen to their cassette tapes and watch their Betamax when they got home from work. Now, people want their Beatles album or their television in crystal clear quality.

The same is becoming increasingly apparent for the majority of organisations when it comes to their IT requirements. Fed up with the manual processes, poor quality and local hardware associated with tape backups, it's now more about having the business agility to backup data cheaply, easily and with the least risk possible.

Sony stopping production of the Cassette opens the door for the cloud to transform the music industry. People will now expect to be able to access and consume their music whether they're at home, at work, travelling, at the gym or generally on the move - but without being restricted to just the music available on their local device.

Redstor have helped organisations make the switch over the past 5 years with our successful Online Backup service and will continue to do so in 2011 and beyond with the launch of cloud storage with EMC. We are well versed in aiding organisations on their journey from heritage backup methods such as tape, to cutting edge cloud services.

We are conducting a survey on LinkedIn asking when we will see the end of tape backups in the corporate Data Centre - to have your say click here
If you require advice from the experts on how to change the record, then please call Redstor on 0118 9515 200.

Redstor and 8el Partnership Announcement

Redstor, a leading managed services, cloud storage and IT solutions provider, has today announced its partnership with 8el, an established provider of communications solutions including IP telephony, ISP services and Wide/Local Area Networks (W/LAN). The partnership will allow 8el to resell Redstor’s online backup service to UK based customers in order to meet their specific business communication needs.


This partnership is part of Redstor’s growth plans to expand its customer base and its sales force through reseller partnership programs. The partnership will allow 8el to focus on expanding its service offering with Redstor providing the back end infrastructure for 8el to offer its existing customer base online data storage.


Commenting on the partnership, Justin Hamilton-Martin, Managing Director at 8el, said: “8el is continuing to launch cloud based services, complementing our existing portfolio. Online Data Storage is expected to be a significant area of growth for our business and 8el are pleased to be partnering with Redstor to provide an invaluable storage solution”


Paul Evans, Managing Director at Redstor, commented: “Today’s partnership announcement will allow 8el to offer its customers on-line data back-up services without the worry of planning or managing the technical infrastructure of the service. Redstor will handle the management of the information, allowing 8el to grow its business by providing its customers with industry leading repeatable added-value services.”

Redstor have been focused on data management and protection since 1998 and have created one of the largest service provider enabled storage infrastructures (storage clouds) in the UK. Redstor Online Backup is re-branded by numerous well known service organisations and is the engine behind the Redstor Backup Service for Schools (RBUSS). Over 80 Local Authorities and education service providers use Redstor's online service to backup and restore the data of over 12,000 addressable schools in the UK.