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May

Is an online backup service OK for your data stockpiles?
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
The backup burden has eased considerably since he began using EMC's Mozy storage-as-a-service offering, Grone says. The Mozy online backup service has ...

How to improve disaster recovery plans
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Techniques including WAN optimization and appliance-based e-mail backup are reducing recovery times, lowering costs and most importantly, raising confidence ...

Opinion: Choosing the right backup interface
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Jerome Wendt May 16, 2008 (Computerworld) It is no secret that disk is becoming the preferred media to use as a backup target and disk-based backup ...

How not to improve backup performance
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
While such claims don't usually bother me, a vendor spam hit my in-box this week touting an "up to 4X backup performance improvement" with LTO4 tape drives ...

Microsoft Cuts Backup From Home Server Update
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb Microsoft has quietly removed a key backup feature from an upcoming update for Windows Home Server, much to the frustration ...

Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack
ZDNet Blogs - USA
Microsoft won’t be delivering database backup as one of the new features promised for the first “PowerPack” update for Windows Home Server when it ships ...

WHS loses database backup feature expected to ship with PP1
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
While users can still expect improved compatibility with 64-bit Vista, a server backup and restore feature, and various much-needed bug fixes, Microsoft has ...

Microsoft Says No Client Backup In SBS 2008
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb Microsoft on Friday announced it won't be including client PC backup functionality when it releases Small Business Server ...

Storage and backup services to generate US$ 188mn for US ISPs by 2012
Connected Home News - Bristol,UK
May 9, 2008 – Storage and backup services are projected to generate an additional US$ 188mn in subscription revenue for US broadband service providers in ...

Bush Admin Fails to Backup Emails
Web Host Industry Review - USA
May 7, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Bush administration admitted this week it does not possess the backup tapes for administration emails sent ...

White House Fesses Up to Missing Data
InternetNews.com - USA
CIO admits three months of data can't be found on 2003 backup tapes. But plenty of questions remain. By Judy Mottl: More stories by this author: The White ...

Backup and the cloud
Blocks & Files - London,UK
Now there is another alternative to tape backup and archive being pushed by disk backup and Software-as-a-Service lovers, disk-to-cloud - we could call it ...

Missouri governor, aides accused of ordering e-mail purge
The Associated Press -
Matt Blunt or his top deputies ordered Missouri's backup e-mail tapes to be destroyed to avoid complying with an open-records request from The Associated ...

White House 'loses' five million emails
VNUNet.com - UK
A court has now given the Executive Office of the President until 5 May to come up with a full account of its data backup strategy, and to clarify the ...


April

Backup Tapes With 2 Million Medical Records Stolen
Slashdot - USA
The University of Miami just made the theft public last week, saying the thieves removed a transport case carrying the school's six computer backup tapes. ...

Thieves pilfer backup tape holding 2M medical records
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Brian Fonseca April 24, 2008 (Computerworld) University of Miami officials last week acknowledged that six backup tapes from its medical school that ...

Data storage, security and backup practices of US medium-sized ...
Continuity Central (press release) - Huddersfield,UK
"US MBs are primarily investing in software to backup PCs and servers," Ms. McKenzie says. "Up to 90 percent of MBs stated they use data backup and data ...

E-mail archiving - tape backup just doesn't cut it anymore
ITWeb - Gauteng,South Africa
[ 18 April 2008 ] - A recent IDC estimate puts total person-to-person business e-mail messages sent worldwide in 2006 at nearly 22 billion messages a day. ...

Back up without crashing
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
The challenge is to choose the right virtual server backup option: -- Traditional agent-based backup software, which installs a software agent on each ...

Pros and cons of remote data backup service
TechRepublic - Louisville,KY,USA
That’s the title of the email I received from a new breed of companies that are jumping onto the bandwagon offering remote data backup and disaster recovery ...

Backup software is broken
Blocks & Files - London,UK
Why does backup software still have its obsession with tape? The backup applications are riven through with the assumption that the ultimate end-target is ...

Blog dialogue: Online vs. traditional backup
Search Storage - USA
At least traditional backup also come with peace of mind that all backups are stored on company’s own infrastructure. In last few years, I tried over a ...

Five signs your backups are borked
Search Storage - USA
In spite of the latest wave of backup technology advances, data backup is still the outsider in terms of enterprise IT. But when the backup environment ...


March

Death to Brick Level Backups!
Information Week Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA
Friends, readers, fellow backup geeks, lend me your eyeballs. I come to bury mailbox by mailbox (brick level) backups not to praise them. ...

US service tracks missing backup tapes
Techworld.com - London,UK
By Tom Jowitt, Techworld A new system has been launched in the United States, which uses GPS technology to locate missing backup tapes. ...

Choosing An Online Backup Provider For Your Smaller Business
bMighty.com - Manhasset,NY,USA
By Howard Marks Smaller businesses can backup data online with ease. The challenge is in selecting from the host of consumer, local, and commercial ...

Carbonite glitch disconnects users from hosted backup service
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Brian Fonseca March 13, 2008 (Computerworld) More than 1100 users lost their connection to Carbonite Inc.'s online backup service earlier this week at ...

Opinion: De-duplicating VMware
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Backup is a particular case in point. Fundamentally, there are two approaches to backup in VMware environments: the first is to mimic the traditional ...

A third of businesses leave their back-up tapes in the office ...
Edubourse.com (Communiqués de presse) - Brie Comte Robert,France
By WebitPR (www.webitpr.com) - March 10, 08 at 11:07 33% of small to medium sized enterprises in the UK leave their back-up tapes in the office at the end ...


February

Adventures in tape backup
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Some folks learn that one the hard way, such as our Off the Record author, a college student working in a corporate IT shop who saw new backup software as ...

Online Backup Nightmare: I've Lost Everything!
PC Magazine - USA
Our chief technology officer's quest for a cheap backup solution proves that you really do get what you pay for. by Robyn Peterson I'm a paranoid person. ...

When Good Intentioned Users Do Harm
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
The user decides they need to completely wipe their drive and restore their data using their backup because they’ve experienced a data loss situation. ...

So Much Data, and So Many Ways to Guard It
New York Times - United States
The trick is figuring out which backup provider offers the right combination of services, support and price for you and protects all the computers on your ...

White House e-discovery squeeze puts e-mail backup in focus
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Osterman said the White House's legal problems over its inability to recover e-mail from its own servers and backup systems may jolt end-users into ...

CENTRAL OHIO SOURCE - The Daily Reporter, Inc.
The Daily Reporter, Inc.
For most small businesses, a tape back-up system is the most common method used for storing records and files, but while tapes are among the least expensive systems, they are seldom user-friendly and can be cumbersome to operate. A new Columbus-based company is developing what it hopes will be a better, more cost-effective back-up system for small and medium-sized businesses. 3X Systems, located on Kinnear Road, is developing an online service through a portable, all-in-one device that can be used by either by the business itself or the company's information technology services provider...

Doh! – I should have made a backup #2
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
I always thought system admin rule number 1 was “Run a backup before you delete anything just in case you delete the wrong thing” apparently Charter’s ...


 
January

SMB Security: A Harsh Lesson
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Today, even the smallest business can go to an office-supply store and get a USB-attached hard disk for quick backup. If you haven't backed up your critical ...

Charter Accidentally Wipes 14K Email Accounts
Slashdot - USA
Slashdot dove into 503 and 500 errors a few minutes after you posted that. by Stevyn (691306) I am one of those people who uses Gmail as a backup betting ...

rsync: A Backup Strategy for Modern Times
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet - Darien,CT,USA
By Carla Schroder The use of hard drives for backups is outpacing other forms of backup media by a country mile. The largest IDE drive available right now ...

Doh! - I should have made a backup #1
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
I ran into a video on CNN today that is one of the clearest arguments for a good backup scheme anyone could make. As described in the report at ...

Congress questions security of backup tape sales
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) has reopened an interesting can of worms on Capitol Hill by sending a letter to the Government Accountability Office ...

Backup Appliance Replication - Boon or Boondoggle
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
As de-duplicating backup appliances including those from Sepaton, Quantum, Data Domain and FalconStor (including OEMs from Copan to EMC and SUN) started to ...

Data Deduplication: Improving Backup Storage And Bandwidth ...
Data Storage Connection (press release) - USA
This strain often prompts companies to re-examine their backup architectures. Many of these companies realize that they have a tremendous amount of ...

Backup blues
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
JC Penny is the latest merchant to lose a backup tape containing the personal information of 650000 customers. How does your firm store credit card data on ...

Can you restore a 6 year old backup?
Information Week Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA
In each case a midsize company tried to satisfy their data retention policy by putting end of month backup tapes on the shelf just in case the data on them ...

Missing backup tape prompts identity theft fears for JC Penny ...
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
By SearchFinancialSecurity.com Staff GE Money, the firm hired by JC Penny to run its credit card operations, announced Thursday that it is missing a backup ...

GE Money Backup Tape With 650000 Records Missing At Iron Mountain
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Iron Mountain can't find a backup tape belonging to GE Money that contains information on customers of JC Penny and about 100 other retailers. ...

Data of 650000 customers of JCPenney, other retailers, at risk ...
SC Magazine US - USA
The Social Security numbers of 150000 people were on the backup tape, which vanished last October, according to representatives from GE Money, which handles ...

WAN backups, archives and disaster recovery
Search Storage - USA
Backups, archives and disaster recovery serve different storage purposes, but all three disciplines have the same basic objective of data protection: ...

Online Backup Providers Opt For Disk Over Tape
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
By Drew Robb After years of unfulfilled promise and false starts, online backup has become one of the hottest segments of the storage market, ...

Online backup services growth
IT Wales - Swansea,Wales,UK
"Online backup has become an attractive approach for many customers, with the advent of cheaper broadband access, users' greater comfort level with ...


 
December

Backup And Archiving: A Perspective On The Future (Requires Registration)
Data Storage Connection (press release) - USA
With all eyes on the future, smart CIOs are taking a long, hard look at their backup and archiving strategies— and asking a lot of tough questions. ...

Data backup too simple to be ignored
Palm Beach Post - FL, United States
By BILL HUSTED Years ago, I felt like a hypocrite for urging readers to back up their computers. I didn't do it very often myself. ...

DR And backup options
Search Storage - USA
Without a solid backup and disaster recovery plan, you can sustain thousands of dollars' worth of downtime or data loss. So what are the best technologies ...

Backup storage options
Macworld - San Francisco,CA,USA
by Joe Kissell When you don't back up your data, you choose to live life on the edge. A hefty power surge, faulty software update, rampant virus, ...

Slapdash staff put corporate data at risk
VNUNet.com - UK
Pubs, bars or restaurant are cited as the most common location, the study by online backup firm Databarracks reported. More than three quarters (77 per ...

Defrag Still Speeds Backup Time
Earthtimes - London,UK
GLENDALE, CA -- 12/12/07 -- File fragmentation, especially unchecked, can greatly slow backup procedures due to the multiple I/Os necessary to retrieve data ...

PC owners fail to back up crucial files
Scotsman - United Kingdom
The research, conducted by Tickbox.net on behalf of online backup provider Carbonite, also found that despite this high rate of data loss, 20 per cent of ...

Choose the Right Backup for Your Business
PC World - USA
Companies often fail to appreciate a sound data backup strategy until their data goes missing. Fortunately, good, affordable backup technology is plentiful, ...

In search of lost backup tapes
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
I have two suggestions: First, start encrypting your backups, at least those that you know will travel. No ifs, no buts, just do it. The second suggestion? ...

 
November

A quarter 'never back up files'
Web User - London,UK
Despite two-thirds of people in the UK having lost files after a hard drive failure or malware attack, 24 per cent of us never back up our data. ...

Data backup, recovery becoming critical to all
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
"We have rejuvenated many IT deals by recovering the lost source code of the final projects, in cases where no back up was taken. ...

Slack backup a symptom of malware apathy
PC Advisor - London,UK
Even those of us who do back up regularly are often guilty of 'safely' storing data on optical discs, right next to our pcs. Which isn't much cop in the ...

Why users opt for online backup
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
The entry of heavyweights such as EMC and Symantec may spur increased interest in online backup and recovery. By Michele Hope Impending hurricanes and wild ...

RP market for backup software appliances untapped
Inquirer.net - Philippines
By Erwin Oliva SINGAPORE -- The Philippine market for backup software appliances is largely untapped, executives of a local firm and a software company said ...

Easy online backups
Macworld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Also, if you have a computer meltdown, you won't be able to boot up your computer from an online backup. If you want a bootable duplicate of your hard disk, ...

Backup and Recovery of Digital Automation
Radio World - Falls Church,VA,USA
Tape backups have long been used to preserve data. Backup software is used to stream data from the hard disk onto some sort of tape cartridge, ...

Hartford Life Insurance "misplaces" three backup tapes
ZDNet Blogs - USA
According to Ohio's Tribune Chronicle: Hartford Life Insurance this week notified the Ohio Department of Insurance that it has misplaced three backup tapes ...


 
October

Hartford Financial misplaces back-up tapes with personal data on ...
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
The warning followed the loss of three backup tapes containing the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers of customers of ...

Backup Versus Clone
The Mac Observer - USA
If you aren't following a regular and reliable backup routine, you will lose important files. It's only a matter of time. While a cloned hard drive does ...

Vista's Broken "Time Machine"
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
To reproduce all of "Time Machine's" functionality you need to involve another Windows Vista component: Backup. Vista's file and image backup utilities are ...

Maxell Reminds Businesses to Backup Computer Files to Avoid Data ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The “Maxell Fall Backup Day” initiative purposefully coincides with Daylight Saving Time “Fall Back” as the perfect time to institute a back up of computer ...

200000 Notified of Lost Backup Tape
Dark Reading - New York,NY,USA
The package was bound for a Pennsylvania company that the agency uses for backup analysis. The agency believes the package came unglued in transit, ...

Many US Consumers are Failing to Protect their Priceless ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
While US and Great Britain consumers are the most negligent at 35 percent neglecting to make backup copies of digital content stored on their computer to ...

SQL Server Backup Types
Microsoft Certified Professional - USA
Let's take a look at each of the backup types and how they work. When you run a full database backup, everything in your database is backed up. ...

There's no excuse to not back up files
Boston Globe - United States
Many come with additional software for backup, privacy, or drive management that you can install or set up, said Kelly. Using a USB memory stick is another ...

Backup Tape Loaded With SSNs, Vacation, Lost
Wired Blogs - USA
By Rob Beschizza October 11, 2007 | 9:26:46 AMCategories: Security That the tape at hand was loaded with personal info, including social security numbers, ...

Lost backup tape costs a week's vacation time
Inquirer - Harrow,England,UK
By Egan Orion: Thursday, 11 October 2007, 1:24 PM AN OHIO state IT worker will lose a week of vacation time over a lost backup tape, writes ComputerWorld. ...

Back-up software-based encryption purchase considerations
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
The impact on your existing backup process can be substantial. Many organizations choose instead to implement encryption in the backup software running on a ...

Small firms failing to back-up data
VNUNet.com - UK
"Despite a lot of time and effort in undertaking the back-up process, older back-up technologies, such as tapes, have considerable drawbacks," said Equiinet ...

CDP or dedupe? Tips to picking one over the other
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
October 04, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Continuous data protection (CDP) software and deduplication appliances are becoming integral parts of the backup process ...

Coppola loses data back-ups
VNUNet.com - UK
The home of Francis Ford Coppola was robbed over the weekend and the theft of his backup device has left him facing the loss of 15 years' worth of data. ...


 
September

make backup and recovery easier
Search Storage - USA
by Logan G. Harbaugh As data growth spirals, getting a handle on your backup and recovery processes becomes even more crucial. Without a proper strategy in ...

Know Your Backup Was Successful
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
Have you ever performed a backup and walked away thinking it went smoothly, only to find out months later that something was corrupted and the critical ...

Remote office backup, archiving and disaster recovery for ...
SearchNetworking.com - Australia
Disk-based backup, also known as disk-to-disk (D2D), is becoming a popular choice for local and remote backup, replacing or supplementing tape-based backup. ...

Connecticut sues Accenture over stolen backup tape
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
... for putting sensitive data about hundreds of state bank accounts and purchasing cards as well as 58 taxpayers on a backup tape that was later stolen. ...

Minnesota workers had information on stolen backup tape
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
By Mark Niquette They had to inform 584 county workers that their Social Security numbers were on a backup computer tape that had been stolen from a state ...

SMB Disaster Recovery Options Go Beyond Online Backup
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
By Drew Robb The first article in this series highlighted how SMBs can harness online backup as the cornerstone of their disaster recovery (DR) actions. ...

Disaster recovery planning - choosing the right back-up strategy
IT Wales - Swansea,Wales,UK
In the event of an incident, the organisation can return its systems to working order using the backup. With major incidents, this level of protection can ...

Data back-up software overview
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
Back-ups are typically performed during off hours with few personnel available, so back-up software often emphasises the use of automation. ...

Best Practices: Backup and Recovery Strategies
PC World - USA
Data protection and backup needs, since backing up multiple servers, volumes, and desktop systems can quickly get very complex. The cost of data storage has ...

Back up or learn lesson hard way
Australian IT - Australia
This is as tedious and painful as it sounds, and is part of the reason why I didn't have a current backup when my disk failed. Data that isn't backed up is ...

More personal data found on stolen Ohio government backup tape
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
September 11, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A computer forensics expert has uncovered an additional 106821 pieces of personal data on a copy of a stolen backup ...

The Backup Veteran: Tape
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
Once a dominant technology for backup in data centers, tape has become just one of the choices for storage, and it has a number of critics who claim that ... 


 
August

Streamline Your File Backups
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
We turned to several experts for their favorite tips on streamlining the backup process. "Standardize the file and folder structure of your computers," says ...

It's easy and relatively cheap: Back up your computer
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
With everyone from students and parents to small-business owners and corporate executives capturing important moments in digital files, data backup has ...

Data de-duplication changes economics of backup
ARNnet - Australia
The ability to de-duplicate backup data -- that is, back up or copy only unique blocks of data -- is rapidly changing the economics of data protection. ...

How Can I Get Backup Data Under Control?
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
We are all also very much aware of the headaches and additional expense that accompany long-term retention of backup data -- the capacity and logistical ...

DFA Law switches from tape to online backup and recovery
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
UK legal firm DFA Law has switched from tape to online backup and recovery to increase data security and reduce annual costs by 2%. ...

Backup copies overview
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
But storage administrators are increasingly worried about the recovery point -- how current is your backup? Skilled IT personnel may be able to restore ...

Deliberating over data de-duplication
VNUNet.com - UK
1) software-only offerings: standalone backup software products that de-dupe as they backup; these can often replicate de-duped data across the WAN. ...


 
July

The SMB backup dilemma
InfoWorld - USA
Choice is king, but with SMB data protection solutions proliferating, confusion might just reign supreme...

Backups for Business: Online Backup Services
PC World - USA
In earlier columns, I've discussed business backup strategies using RAID (redundant array of inexpensive, or independent, disks) and removable storage media ...

Data Backup: Data deduplication overview
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
After a year, that 1 GB of wasted space can ultimately demand 52 GB on tape or other backup storage. Data deduplication is a fairly recent technology that ...

The bonding between bandwidth, backup and continuity
Continuity Central (press release) - Huddersfield,UK
To ensure security, compliance and sidestep the challenges of maintaining a network of tape libraries, many IT teams are moving to centralised backup ...

Users want more disk backup -- right now
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
July 25, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Fed up with slow tape backup systems and under pressure by regulators and auditors to keep data online and readily ...

Backup data on 365 000 patients stolen from car
InterGovWorld.com - Toronto,ON,Canada
About 365000 hospice and home health care patients in Oregon and Washington are being notified about the theft of computer backup data disks and tapes late ...

Opinion: Tape backup is WORN (write once, read never)
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
However, this may be largely an artifact of the still prevalent practice of "backup as archive". In this situation, tape essentially serves as "WORN" (write ...

Data backup overview
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
This chapter covers the areas of disc, tape and remote data backup, and explains the essential ideas used in successful data backup strategies. ...


 
June

The State of Data Backup Protection
Dark Reading - New York,NY,USA
The only variation to this routine occurs when vendors try to get us excited with new versions of the same backup software or bigger, faster tape drives. ...

Meeting Data Security Requirements With Disk-Based Backup
Data Storage Connection (press release) - USA
Securing backup data has become an absolute requirement for organizations of all sizes. New, sweeping government regulations such as HIPAA, GLBA, ...

A checklist for protecting personal data
iT News - Australia
On June 10, along with a US$200 radar detector, a "computer backup device" was stolen out of the car of a college intern working for a state agency in Ohio. ...

The intern, the data, the memo
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
So it's fair to ask why, six months later, a state intern was still following an utterly antiquated procedure when he brought home a data-backup device ...

Stolen Backup Device Holds Info On 225000 Ohio Taxpayers
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
The device was stolen after a state intern took the device home as part of a policy that called for one backup device to be kept offsite. ...

Backup Tapes in Mass Tort Litigation
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Companies involved in mass tort litigation thus face a Hobson's choice when it comes to preserving backup tapes. There are real questions of whether the ...

Intern loses backup device with personal data on Ohio state workers
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
According to a description of the incident on Strickland's Web site, a "computer backup device" containing the information was stolen from the car of an ...

State computer tape theft opens up many questions
Lebanon Western Star - Lebanon,OH,USA
By William Hershey COLUMBUS -- The theft of a state of Ohio computer backup tape from the car of a state intern has set off two searches -- one to find what ...

Ohio Employee Data Is Stolen From Car
New York Times - United States
As a security measure, a backup storage device is kept at a temporary work site for a state office, and another backup device is given to an employee to ...

Stolen state tape: More personal info than thought
Dayton Daily News (subscription) - Dayton,OH,USA
By William Hershey COLUMBUS -- After learning that additional personal information might be on a stolen state backup computer tape, Gov. ...

 



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