April 2021

What lessons can we learn from the OVH fire?

Earlier this year, a catastrophic fire hit French cloud services provider OVHcloud, wiping out one of its datacentres and causing significant damage to another. The impact of this unforeseen event was huge. Millions of websites worldwide went down, resulting in loss of service, revenue and sales opportunities for businesses and organisations of all sizes. Even

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What’s the difference between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?

Updated November 2026: rewritten and expanded with a side-by-side comparison, RTO and RPO explained, real-world scenarios (including ransomware and Microsoft 365), and a step-by-step guide to building and testing a BCDR plan. The short answer: business continuity (BC) is how your organisation keeps operating during a disruption: people, premises, suppliers, communications and IT. Disaster recovery

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