Category: Blog

  • Will your Emergency Response Plan work when needed?

    Will your Emergency Response Plan work when needed?

    When major incidents occur, the communications system is often the first casualty. With communications to the outside world cut off, vital decisions need to be taken by the field crew and having the Emergency Response Plan to hand is essential.

    Despite the spread of mobile technology across the globe, events such as natural disasters, acts of war and terrorist attacks can render all communications useless – leaving you instantly isolated and in the dark, literally and metaphorically.

    Recent disasters such as the Costa Concordia grounding, the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill, and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station release all happened quickly with little to no warning and had devastating results. That’s what an emergency is all about of course.

    The question is what would you do in this situation?

    Download a complimentary WhitePaper that will show how you can ensure an always-on connection to the latest Emergency Response Plan and have the latest data at the fingertips of your key workers, or those of the First Responders in the remotest of locations – even when all comms are down. And how you can continue to communicate despite overloaded, poor or intermittent networks

  • Success at iOra means a move to UK’s Silicon Valley

    Success at iOra means a move to UK’s Silicon Valley

    iOra, the data replication and compression experts, has outgrown its current office space and, in order to continue to meet the needs of its current and growing customer base, iOra has relocated to Hook in Hampshire, UK. In addition to meeting its future growth plans and to attract the best staff to support its customers, iOra believes the company will also be better placed closer to the M4 corridor – England’s ‘Silicon Valley’ – to continue to work closely with its technical partners.

    iOra’s replication and compression technologies have been selected by organisations that operate in the most demanding environments. iOra’s software ensures information consistency, guarantees regulatory compliance and enables organisation-wide collaboration minute-by-minute particularly for locations where the network is unreliable or intermittent – proven to send data on networks as low as 2kbps.

    Philip Wye, iOra’s CEO says, “iOra is punching above its weight as a small UK company, particularly in the global defence market. Our success can be attributed to a high investment in the design of our patented technology, the development of our UK technicians, and a business team that understands how to deploy on an international scale.”

    He added: “There are considerable continued opportunities for iOra in the parts of the world where broadband connections are sporadic or non-existent – people just expect to be connected and have access to key data. They don’t always understand the logistics in making that happen; even parts of Western Europe and the United States, for example, suffer from interrupted supply.”

    See our Blog in March to see who opened our new office!

  • Big Data Over Challenging Networks

    Big Data Over Challenging Networks

    The management, analysis, storage and transfer of Big Data has become the focus of many enterprises as they struggle to find ways to control, and potentially benefit from the data that they are capturing at the operational end of the business.

    The data explosion has occurred as more and more devices and servers are being deployed to capture increasing quantities of data.

    These devices include tools that provide covert monitoring data, remote telemetry data, software logs, operational performance data, through to the human generated repositories of corporate portals, social networks and file shares. The distributed enterprise has the effect of scattering these Big Data repositories over the every continent, and to places where network connectivity has the effect of isolating the remote site where the networks are often disconnected and challenging . iOra has worked with many enterprises to remove the challenging network as a barrier for transferring Big Data back to the corporate hub for management and analysis.

    Not only does iOra have the capability to replicate installed and virtualised web portals e.g. Lotus Notes, Microsoft SharePoint, but also has the option of being able to replicate raw file sets and directories of data using the world leading Epsilon compression technology.

    Written by Lawrence Poynter, Product Manager