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The SES offices will be closing at 5pm on Thursday 23rd December and re-open at 8am Tuesday 4th January 2022. Although our offices will be closed, throughout the festive period we will continue to be there if and when you need us.

As we close out 2021 and start planning for 2022 it is important to reflect on the past year and the challenges we faced. Ready to prepare our plans and our budgets for the year ahead.

As the world begins to reopen and we move on from the COVID 19 pandemic towards a “new normal” how has your approach to business continuity changed?

Have you considered who would redeploy your software application in the event of a release? This often overlooked aspect of software resilience is one of the most important to consider. In the unfortunate event your supplier is no longer available to support your application and the Software Escrow agreement is called upon

Have you set out your business continuity plan to protect your organisation against unforeseen circumstances? The majority of businesses rely on 3rd party developed applications to perform business critical functions within their organisation. Whilst using these external suppliers provides major benefits to your organisation

What steps do you take to maximise your business continuity against unforeseen circumstances? This short series explores the protections SES has developed to provide our customers with guaranteed business continuity in the event your software supplier is unable to support your business critical applications.

As part of our continued commitment to providing the highest levels of information security standards available in the UK Software Escrow industry, SES has achieved recertification of ISO: 9001 and ISO: 27001.

As we move on from the COVID-19 pandemic and return to the “new normal”. Darragh Lavin of SES explores how business continuity plans and the need to protect software assets has changed.

Having a disaster recovery plan to protect against unforeseen circumstances is essential to getting your business back online should the worst happen. With that in mind, how do you test that the recovery plans you have invested in are robust enough to guarantee that your critical applications can be swiftly and accurately redeployed in the event of a release?

Advancements in technology are creating a huge shift in the way we as end users are incorporating critical applications into our organisations. Locally installed on-premise applications which require huge financial and time outlays to purchase and integrate are being replaced with SaaS applications delivered through a third party hosting partner. 

European Cloud Computing giant OVH have announced last week that a major fire has destroyed one of its Strasbourg data centres and damaged another. The disaster is estimated to have brought more than 3.5 million websites offline. 

As we begin 2021 it is important to reflect on 2020 and the challenges we faced, preparing us for what lies ahead as we get back to what many describe as “the new normal”.