2007-06-25
Backups for Business: Storage Media
Let's consider the types of removable storage media available for your backup. Ideally, you want a relatively inexpensive form of data storage that is durable and reusable. It should have sufficiently high capacity to store all or most of your critical business data on one unit of media. The storage medium should be widely available and commonly used, so that the data on it can be quickly accessed and restored on another computer should the original PC be destroyed.
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2007-06-23
Data storage demand up after hurricanes
WebSafe, which has customers in most of the United States as well as Canada and Europe, converts personal records into digital data stored in an online safe that can be accessed only with an encrypted code or key. The company was founded three years ago and has seen business take off since Hurricane Ivan struck the Mobile area in September 2004 and Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the Gulf Coast a year later..
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2007-06-11
DPM software: Makeover or coverup?
Companies tend to only think of and use DPM software in a singular context – day-to-day operations. For the most part, this software does a good job of monitoring and reporting on the successes and failures of backup jobs, the identification of failed tape drives and the utilization of media in tape libraries. However, this did not raise DPM software’s value proposition much beyond the purview of the day-to-day operations staff.
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2007-06-04
Prepare your business before the storm
Backing up your company's data: good idea.
Lugging a hard drive back and forth between two offices to back up your company's data: bad idea.
It's a lesson Orlando Diaz learned the hard way when he carried an external hard drive between his REDi Mortgage offices in Kendall and Miami Beach, using it as his primary backup and storage system once every two weeks.
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