Hard drive failure can happen any time, but is your back (up) covered to minimise the loss?
Although Microsoft is keen to encourage backup appliances based on its forthcoming Data Protection Server (DPS) package, hardware manufacturers are remaining cautious about the concept.
Storage companies are betting a technology once reserved for businesses will appeal to consumers dealing with large files shared by multiple PCs and a need for data protection.
Dell is targetting small business with a series of laptops, desktop and associated services to cure integration blues for organisations with less than 10 employees.
The tragic events of September 11 have made us all more aware of the devastating potential of a physical disaster. Many companies are looking carefully at their backup strategies to ensure data integrity, reliability, and business continuity in the event of a disaster.
Westpac, one of the biggest banks in Australia, experienced multiple hardware failures on Monday and at the end of last week, which caused its online banking service to fall over for hours at a time. What happened to its backup systems?
There are some common elements in how IT professionals and home users deal with backup: the need for backups to happen automatically and quietly, and to be easily and quickly restored when the proverbial hits the fan.
Just as Internet users learn that clicking on a link in an e-mail purporting to come from their bank is a bad idea, phishers seem to be developing a new tactic -- launch a DDoS attack on the Web site of the company whose customers they are targeting and then send e-mails "explaining" the outage and offering an "alternative" URL.
Make sure your organisation has an emergency plan in place to deal with the impact of a major disaster.
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Storage hardware can't keep indefinitely storing more bits in the same amount of space. When will we run out of disk space, and what will we do when it happens?
Realising it could take three months to restore critical servers after a disaster prompted Parks Victoria to become one of the first large organisations in Australia to adopt an on-demand model for its backup and disaster recovery
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Despite a few cosmetic negatives and a general lack of technical support, Norton Save & Restore is a decent backup app.
Small businesses new to networks and backups will appreciate Dantz Retrospect, but more experienced users should look elsewhere.
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