Our story
Our perspective comes from decades of working with business IT. We have seen the benefits of keeping systems close, the possibilities of moving them to the cloud, and the consequences of depending on someone else’s availability.
Orwell’s next chapter brings those experiences together: use the cloud for what it does well, and retain a practical, local way to carry on when it cannot.
The principle behind the product
Cloud convenience.
Local independence.
Both belong in the plan.
The move to the cloud changed where business data lived. It did not remove the need to take responsibility for how a business keeps working.
Our continuity approach is a response to that responsibility. It gives organisations a local capability alongside the cloud services they choose to use.
THE FOUNDATION
Our work began with the systems businesses could see and touch: servers, networks, workstations and the people who depended on them. Keeping those systems working meant understanding the organisation, not just the technology.
That experience taught us the value of local knowledge, direct access and clear ownership. When something stopped, there was a system to investigate and a way to take action.
THE CLOUD CHAPTER
Cloud platforms brought real advantages: flexible access, collaboration across locations and less infrastructure for an individual office to manage. We helped businesses make that transition and use those capabilities well.
We still believe in those benefits. The cloud is a powerful part of a modern business. The question is how to make that choice without leaving the organisation dependent on a single route to its own information.
THE NEXT CHAPTER
As more work moved into cloud services, availability, data custody and supplier dependency became business questions. Where is our usable copy? Who controls access to it? What happens to the working day if the provider is unavailable?
Our answer is a local continuation environment, built on open-source software and backed by a rehearsed plan. It combines the flexibility of the cloud with an operating option the customer can keep on their own premises.
A practical view of data sovereignty
Keeping a local copy does not change where your cloud provider stores its original data. It gives you something additional: custody of an agreed copy, on infrastructure under your control, with a defined way to use it.
Open-source foundations and portable formats make that option more durable. The goal is to keep your organisation’s ability to operate connected to its own decisions.
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