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Why You Should Encrypt Your Backup Tapes
Even organizations that routinely encrypt their data usually omit one area from their encryption plans: their tape backups. That might not be such a good idea. -
Recovery from Disaster Miscalculated by Most Companies
How long will it take for your organization to recover from a disaster? Chances are that your response to that question is woefully inaccurate. Many people underestimate the window of disruption caused by calamity at their businesses. -
Storage Firm Sanctioned $150K for eDiscovery Snafu
When you make your money making storage devices it’s a little embarrassing to show up in court without data that’s supposed to be safely stored on your hardware. It can be costly, too. That’s what storage titan SanDisk discovered... -
Will SharePoint Hurt Your Backup?
Microsoft’s sharing and collaboration platform, SharePoint, has been attracting users since its introduction in 2001. Companies are finding the software’s document sharing, team discussion and document-based workflow features hard to resist. However, organizations that depend only on the native... -
Disaster Recovery Testing Is Becoming a Dying Art
Many companies have disaster recovery systems in place. Relatively few, though, know if they’ll work when disaster strikes. Speaking at a video briefing sponsored by Accela Communications, Gartner Research Vice President David Russell maintained that disaster recovery testing is... -
Cloud Fails to Win Hearts & Minds of Consumers
Cloud computing–the ability to perform online functions typically in the domain of the desktop–has created a deafening buzz in corporate circles but consumers appear to be less than enamored with the technology. A recent Harris Interactive poll, for instance,... -
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... -
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. -
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.
