If you haven’t seen it yet, we just announced a strategic partnership with Equinix, (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services. We’ve just added our fourth nScaled Remote Cloud Data Center in Equinix’s Ashburn, Virginia facility to help us manage our growth, and we’ve also decided to standardize on using Equinix co-lo’s from in the future.

There’s a very good piece by Esther Shein over at Computerworld today called “Disaster recovery 101: What you need to know”.

Disaster recovery plans and solutions are a form of insurance. Companies hope that they’ll never need them, but pay the “premium” because not to do so is to put their business at risk.

We’re pleased that Hallett Retail Ltd. in London have signed up with nScaled. They help demonstrate that the issues driving the adoption of cloud solutions – growing amounts of data to manage, the need for greater agility – are a global phenomenon and not just an issue in the US. Here’s their story.