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Cloud Disaster Recovery is Just Pie in the Sky (at least right now)
While some cloud computing vendors would like you to believe backing up data to the nimbus is the same as disaster recovery from it, it isn’t. Cloud backup involves replicating data and storing it off the premises of its... -
Business Balking on Cloud Storage
While the cloud may have an irresistible attraction to some businesses for some purposes, storage doesn’t seem to be one of them—at least according to some recent findings from Forrester Research. In a report titled “Business Users Are Not... -
Storage Pros Worried by Resource Shortfalls
An increasing number of business technology professionals are saying they’re worried about meeting the storage demands of critical applications in their organizations, according to recently released findings by InformationWeek Analytics. -
Staff Cuts & Talent Shortages Are Plaguing Data Centers
Data center managers are being whipsawed by payroll paring and a dearth of qualified candidates, according to a recent survey conducted by Applied Research for security software maker Symantec. The worldwide poll of data center specialists in 1,780 enterprises... -
Private Clouds Trade Benefits for Security
Corporations guard their data jealously, and who can blame them? In the Information Age, data is to business as blood is to life. So it’s not surprising that any paradigm that removes an enterprise’s direct control of its data... -
Court Rules Metadata Part of eDiscovery
The inclination of federal courts to require metadata be included with electronic documents obtained through e-discovery seems to be seeping down to the state courts. In a case decided by the Arizona Supreme Court last fall, justices flipped two... -
Why Data Categorization Is Essential when Creating Security Plans
When planning security for a data center many things pop into mind—firewalls, anti-virus software, filtering—but data categorization may not be one of them. Yet, some security experts would argue that building silos for classifying data is the cornerstone of... -
eDiscovery Lessons Learned from Blagojevich
The people who gather electronic evidence sometimes spend too much time snatching documents from an adversary and not enough time considering how to protect that information once they get it. -
How to Achieve Peace of Mind When Destroying Data Tapes
It’s a data center administrator’s worst nightmare. A data tape headed for destruction disappears in transit. Even companies that use the very best tape management systems to track tapes and other media have no control once the media is in transit.... -
Buying New Servers Is Nothing But a Headache
Want to make the boss unhappy? Tell him or her you need to buy another server. That’s what researchers discovered when they polled more than 400 IT pros about their attitudes toward servers. The survey sponsored by Rackspace Hosting of...