From a simple power failure to a record flood or raging fire, server disasters can damage a business and halt the flow of important information crucial to company prosperity.

A NEWCASTLE-BASED data centre is celebrating after securing three new contracts in less than two months - sending the company well on the way to increasing turnover by another 20% in the next year.

A data center stores all the programs, files, applications and other digital information that a business needs to have, so they may reasonably compete against businesses using the internet If their files where destroyed, this would bring the companies production to a halt, possibly causing a crushing blow to its positive cash flow