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E-Mail Encryption Goes Mainstream
February 04, 2010 10:00 AM
Fess up, have you ever emailed your credit card number or Social Security number to a friend, family member, or even to a third party? I have, and yes, I was a bonehead for doing it. In the business world, you need to make sure your employees aren't doing it either. Why should you care? New state mandated data privacy regulations are changing the rules of the game when it comes to emailing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in cyberspace. Simply stated, it's bad business, and it's becoming increasingly illegal.NAS Commoditization
February 02, 2010 03:09 PM
Does basic office productivity application data like spreadsheets, word processing and presentation files belong on a purpose-built NAS? Most NAS systems are now tuned to deliver high-performance storage I/O for applications like VMware, Oracle and large processing type of environments. Most are well worth the expense if the increased I/O can increase productivity or response time for customers but often are overkill for basic office productivity data.A Different Cloud Storage Risk
January 29, 2010 09:30 AM
When talking about the risk of storing data in the cloud, the conversation quickly turns to encrypting data, both during transport and at rest. The problem is that all the encryption in the world isn't going to help you if your encrypted data disappears because of sloppy data protection or data loss. What is your cloud storage provider doing to make sure that your data is going to be there when you need it next month, next year or in the next decade?New BakBone Technology For Remote Offices Instantaneously Recovers Applications And Data To Any Point In Time
January 19, 2010 10:12 AM
BakBone Software (OTCBB: BKBO), a leading provider of Universal Data Management solutions, today introduced version 4.0 of NetVault: FASTRecover, BakBone's disk-based, real-time data protection solution for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Windows File Servers. NetVault: FASTRecover (NVFR) 4.0 introduces a new distributed architecture to seamlessly protect multiple remote or branch offices across the WAN using a single NVFR infrastructure, instantaneous fast failover to physical or virtual machines across a LAN or WAN and the ability to implement distributed application availability to existing IT environments.A Pretty Good Disaster Recovery Plan
January 13, 2010 08:52 AM
Symantec just released its 2010 State of The Data Center Survey. In the survey, respondents were asked to rate their disaster recovery plan and only 12 percent rated it as excellent. Even if you add in the 27 percent who thought their plan was "Pretty Good," that means more than half thought that their plans were less than pretty good. Still, the choice of "pretty good" struck me. Who wants to execute a recovery from a "pretty good" DR plan?Should An Expectation Of Employee Privacy Exist?
January 08, 2010 01:00 PM
Continuing our previous discussion on U.S. Supreme Court case on a data privacy issue related to whether or not an employee has a reasonable expectation of privacy for personal messages sent on devices owned by an employer, we have to ask, does it matter that employees know that personal information will be captured and monitored by employers?Keys To Cloud Storage Success
January 08, 2010 12:00 PM
There are more than a handful of providers offering you the ability to store your information in the cloud today and there will be many more this year. What should you be looking for in a cloud storage provider to have confidence that they are going to be around in the years to come? Before going over the capabilities list of perspective providers, understand what you are going to use the cloud for. Is it for the storage of production real-time data, for collaboration on a data set, for the distribution of temporally important content like a movie, or is it for the long term storage of archival data? All of these are going to provide different weighting of the capabilities of the cloud providers you speak with.Will The U.S. Supreme Court Provide Clarity On Employee Privacy?
January 07, 2010 01:44 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to accept a case on a data privacy issue related to whether or not an employee has a reasonable expectation of privacy for personal messages sent on devices owned by an employer. The legal question revolves around whether or not such personal messages are protected under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. Ostensibly, this is about a narrow situation where a public employee had his pager messages transcribed into text and read by his superior. Practically, it touches a much broader and more important issue of how employee data privacy affects the management of information that organizations, including business, governmental and non-profit entities, need to keep and examine for legitimate purposes, such as compliance with government regulations or discovery related to a court case.Disk For Archive Is Not Dead
December 10, 2009 01:39 PM
In his recent blog "Copan's MAID Fades away," 3PAR's Marc Farley predicts that MAID is dead and that we can forget about disk for archiving applications. I usually agree with Marc but this time not so much. I believe that MAID is not dead and more importantly, neither is disk for archiving.Data Protection Workflow
December 08, 2009 04:56 PM
I was speaking with Bocada and Tek-Tools last week about their focus on helping customers solve their data protection challenges. If you think about it there is no shortage of solutions to protect your environment, and I am encountering more than a few data centers that have the same data set protected four or five times. Ironically, they don't feel anymore comfortable about recovery. The problem is a lack of process or workflow to all these point solutions.« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Next Page »
