Compliance and Disaster Recovery

IT security overwhelmed by online attackers

For the longest time, corporate society has looked at the technical world as the sole responsibility of information technology specialists, engineers and other personnel trained to work with computers and high-tech gadgets. Maintaining the age-old paradigm of separation of...

Celebrating backup awareness month

June is the month we celebrate the sacred tradition of moving data from active service to archives and backup data management, because just one day in March isn’t enough time to dedicate to data tape. Promotional events In the...

Saving the world on tape

A lot of people like to say that tape is dead, but those cries grow faint when digital storage media fail and those without good disaster preparedness find themselves in a data blackout.

Planning before disaster strikes somehow counterintuitive

For some reason businesses insist on not building up their disaster recovery or properly checking that the system is in place and working effectively before a dangerous event happens.

Technology Is No Band-Aid For Poor Planning

As companies continue to rebound from the depths of recession and replenish their reserves, IT managers that have been forced to do more with less in recent years are finally getting the go ahead to splash some cash and...

Businesses rethinking their cloudy decision-making

Most IT managers can be forgiven for their rush to the cloud in recent years. Marketing buzz from industry pundits, pressure from high-level executives and case studies from competitors seemed to suggest anyone standing in the way of cloud...

World Backup Day: Starting a New Tradition

It might be a good idea to capitalize on the opportunity presented by World Backup Day to educate your colleagues on best practices and reexamine your own strategies.

Companies Finally Get the Disaster Recovery Message

By just about any measure, 2011 was a historically challenging year for corporate IT professionals. Natural disasters, lost devices, breached databases and careless employees made it abundantly clear that just about anything that can go wrong must be regarded...