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Around 63% of organisations take a day or more to recover from system downtime, according to research from Acronis. Despite living in a world where businesses operate around the clock, the majority of companies are still putting their systems, and therefore their productivity and profitability, at risk by failing to protect them adequately.

Dingwall based Alchemy Plus has now submitted proposals to Highland Council in Scotland with the aim of creating a £20m computing centre, which might seem lightweight in comparison to the proposed and conditional approved £950m Lockerbie data centre but is greeted with enthusiasm in Inverness and it could be opened by 2011.

The European Parliament has blocked an agreement reached by the 27 EU national governments and the US last month to allow European citizens' personal financial data to be analysed by American authorities investigating the financing of terrorism. The vote was criticised by supporters of the agreement, who claim that Parliament's veto impedes intelligence services tracking terrorist activities.

Cloud vaults with their implication of security are offering various locations, clouds in reality are fairly complex, now there's a Cloud directory and seven business models, with the news that another model has emerged as Microsoft and the US National Foundation are to move research from its ivory towers and into the clouds.

Local road safety concerns are fly in the ointment to Europe's biggest data centre at Peelhouses which has been granted conditional approval. The decision means construction of the facility, which could attract up to £3.5 billion worth of investment, could start as early as next year, as approval from Scottish Ministers is no longer needed.

Anyone who thinks that onyx, the semiprecious chalcedony, comes only in the colour black, will find that there are others shades. The Onyx Group true to form has been quietly growing and acquiring the market ‘impurities’ needed for colour and growth. So not only has it widened its regional distribution in data centres, added to its disaster recovery operations, but is also expanding its markets.

An impressive line up of speakers aired Data Centres and Scotland at the jointly hosted ScotlandIS and Morse event. It was intended to highlight Scottish capabilities and exchange knowledge and best practice. After the delivered expertise, the workshops ruminations emerged with some really key and rarely bruited issues, These will also need attention if Scotland is intending to brand its Data Centres appproach successfully in the global market.

Sun and Oracle unveil a new database machine built from Sun hardware and Oracle software. The companies claim the Exadata machine works twice as fast as the previous generation of the device. Meantime Autonomy offers its advanced probabilistic technology for unstructured information through IDOL SPE for structured databases, a target $18bn market.

Back in February, VirtenSys’ technology under evaluation by among others IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, expected revenue beginning in the fourth quarter, and a fast increase to between $50 - $100m. The news is that the company has instead raised a further $16m in Series C funding from existing investors, including Scottish Equity Partners, Celtic House Venture Partners and Gimv to grow its operations.

September may be Scotland's data centre month, but the Amsterdam season opened in July and ran into August. First Global Crossing, a New Jersey based global IP solutions provider, opened its data center in Amsterdam as part of its plan to grow its European business.(It also has a Glasgow base.) Hard on its heels this month, Dyadem (Toronto HQ), a provider of software and services relating to operational and quality risk management initiatives, also opened its office in the city of diamonds.

The Financial Times has been mulling over the potential clutch of developers of ‘green’ data centres in Scotland, including Lockerbie Data Centres awaiting planning approval, Internet Villages International angling for a data farm in Ecclelfechen and also part of the Antlantis consortium in Caithness, awaiting a Crown Estates license which should hear about in September.

Opera Unite has launched a application intended to shake up the old client-server computing model of the Web, by turning your or any computer into both client and server, allowing it to interact with and serve content to other computers directly across the Web, without the need for third-party servers.

String theorist who envision the universe with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden at Washington and Harvard University think favour formation of three- and seven-dimensional realities. But forget about 3D, for optical data storage over one terabit per cubic centimetre the 5D is possible, say researchers in Australia.

The Aberdeen region long a major paper producer has been impacted by major mill closure, but that could be offset quite logically by papers great replacer, magnetic stored data, in what could become the fifth potential Scottish site to be developed, adding Inverurie to the Inverness, Pentland Firth, Solway Firth and Lockerbie sites.

What do the National Library of Scotland and the Victoria and Albert Museum have in common? Simple. They are customers of Hitachi Data Systems Corporation and two out of seven Hitachi Data System customers selected as 2009 Computerworld Honours Laureate award winners.Both will be recognised during an annual ceremony on June 1 at the Andrew W Mellon Auditorium in Washington DC

As Google gets its floating data centre patent, Scotland's head count of three, with 'maybe' plans for a further four is set into a UK scenario of around 48: nearby Europe offering at least another five and of course, as data knows few boundaries, US data centres also host regular Scotland based users. To get a view on what is developing and where it might be going, CS asks a US data centre expert for his insight.

CIOs should wait for Oracle to declare it hardware and middleware roadmaps before deciding on their license agreements, say analysts. Gartner notes the merger marks the first time a large software company has bought a large hardware company, positioning Oracle as a "powerhouse" vendor targeting IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

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