As you can imagine, an agency such as ours generates huge amounts of data which is stored on a central fileserver. Documents, artwork, images… all of these files are vital to our business and to our clients. But could we afford to lose any of this data?

Simply put, no. Hard disk failure, fire or theft could wipe out many irreplaceable files as well as requiring many hours of studio time to re-create lost artwork.

Our first line of defence in this respect is that our fileserver uses a RAID system to protect against hard disk failure. This uses an array of separate disks where the data is spread across all disks in such a way that, should one fail, a new one can be installed without loss of data. Click here to read the full article >>

(Opinion by: John Dawkins – IT Manager)