Backup Tape Management

Companies continue to ignore disasters

For some reason, small business owners seem to think that disasters are going away. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, blizzards and wind storms aren’t about to get bored and find something else to do. It just means they aren’t affecting you...

Failing to utilize backup tape a mistake

Imagine your business becomes entirely flooded, snowed in, burned to the ground or leveled by an earthquake. Offsite data storage of any kind would help ensure business continuity, so long as the storage center was far enough away that...

Businesses need to start caring about asset protection

Companies like to think the only thing they need to protect is their physical assets, but information is possibly more valuable than any single item sitting in their offices. Corporate losses can wind up in the millions of dollars...

Information structures help diverse clientele

Big Data is a problem for businesses of all kinds, not just retail and finance companies. As the modern world becomes increasingly technology-based, more entities will have to deal with interactions online, meaning measuring metrics and monitoring security for...

Never have I ever…backed up my data?

Private individuals don’t backup their data. Studies have shown it, people have admitted to it and still the loss of critical information continues as users keep assuming it just won’t happen to them. Some people have turned to the...

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...

Where in the world is your data?

Just because something is established one way doesn't mean it shouldn't be open for review. In fact, it's one of the smartest strategies for ensuring the best possible disaster continuity plan.

The role of Big Data in the retail world

It's easy to get caught up in the idea that these enterprise-level solutions are all meant for housing corporate client information, expanses of spreadsheets and routine files from the mid 90's that once were intrinsic to business functions.

Organizations seem to be handing out data with unencrypted USB drives

It's like a smorgasbord of opportunities for data thieves recently in North America - both Canadian and U.S. entities have been losing information left and right that hasn't been properly encrypted, encoded or locked.

New Windows operating system has no business backup benefit

Private users don’t take data backup as seriously as they should and it seems that years of industry warnings aren’t making any ground in the battle for data continuity there. Businesses also seem to be lacking in some of...