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DCG record growth following on from outstanding Q4 results

Following a very successful year DCG Managed Services grew by a record 44% year on year. DCG anticipated it would be an outstanding year going into Q4 but the performance in the Final Quarter (up 63% year on year) exceeded DCG’s expectations. Highlights in Q4 include new customer wins in gaming and media entertainment, integrated services, sports events management, interactive …
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DCG Group announces major investment and growth strategy.

DCG, the specialist data management, security and continuity services provider, today announces that it has completed a £1.5m fund raising from Foresight Group, a leading alternative asset manager, to accelerate new product development and growth plans. As part of the investment strategy the Board has strengthened senior management with the appointment of Martin Peck as Interim Chief Executive Officer, enabling …
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Cloud based backup – what’s the deal?

Fuelled by affordable bandwidth and capacity optimisation technologies, cloud-based backup is becoming a popular alternative to portable media, such as tape. There are currently two popular approaches to cloud backup: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud storage services. As an alternative to on-premise software and secondary storage, backup SaaS is a Web-native application hosted and operated at a central location and accessed …
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DCG provides critical services to the gaming industry

The UK gaming industry is the third largest in the world, housing 23 of the top 100 successful games development studios in the world with many of the internationally renowned games originating from the UK such as F1 2010 and World of Warcraft. The market is extremely competitive and business continuity is absolutely crucial as any data loss or damage …
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PRO GRID –Cloud based backup and recovery service

Leading Managed Services Provider, DCG Group, Launches PRO GRID PRO Grid  is a highly available cloud based backup and recovery service that ensures that once your data is backed up, it is sent securely offsite, via your existing WAN links, to a secure DCG data centre and held ready for you to access 24 by 7. James Harris, Director of …
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Event – Manage and Optimise Data Everywhere!

DCG Group and Symantec invite you to a free NetBackup, Puredisk and Enterprise Vault business and technical briefing. Symantec NetBackup establishes itself as the industry’s only platform to unite such critical data protection capabilities as deduplication, advanced virtual machine backup, snapshots, continuous data protection (CDP), and replication—all through one console. DCG Group has the strongest array of Symantec based data protection services …
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DCG earns ISO2000 and ISO9001 to continue to be the best in the business

DCG believe that in order to provide significant value to our customers, it needs to constantly improve as an organisation. This success is contingent on its ability to service customers effectively and efficiently and requires robust processes and rigorous quality standards. Therefore quality certification is just not business driven, but driven by a passion to be the best. DCG has …
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Storage Expo – DCG & Managed Services

DCG Group is to speak at Storage Expo on Thursday 15th October 2009 as part of the Symantec Panel on Managed Backup. James Harris, VP of Sales and Marketing, will be part of a panel taking questions on managed backup alongside Symantec’s John Kirby, Director, UK Operational Consulting Services and Garry Mcmahon, Service Delivery Manager, Storage & Availability Consulting. Topics …
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Not all online backup created equal

Online backup is a sensible option for many businesses. It gives businesses peace of mind and the security that comes from knowing that your data is protected away from your site. The major benefits of using online backup over a traditional backup solution are that businesses have a way of offloading the complexities associated with backups such as checking backup …
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Backup & protect your data in a virtual environment.

DCG Group are holding a free business and technical briefing sponsored by VMware on the 11th and 12th June 2009 at the Radisson SAS Hotel, Manchester airport, and the Brewery, London. Virtualisation is the current hot topic for organisations seeking IT efficiencies – and innovative users have realised that virtualisation can make vital contributions in the critical area of business …
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