How to Stretch Your Security Dollar
Getting additional ROI from security, business continuity, disaster recovery and compliance investments during "uneventful" operations is not unheard of, say experts. You just need to be creative. Here are some ways to make these critical investments work even harder.
SMBs unprepared for disasters, Symantec finds
Small businesses shouldn't be so confident about their disaster recovery plans, survey finds.
Doyenz upgrades cloud platform for SMBs
Doyenz, which develops cloud platforms for service provider networks, released version 3 of its platform, which is designed for small and midsize businesses looking for disaster recovery services and test environments.
A better way to do online offsite backups
Both 3X Systems and Global Data Vault allow you to purchase a backup server that you can temporarily locate to your own office network, and then move to a secured offsite location. This way you get started a lot quicker on the initial backup process, but still have the benefit of an offsite solution.
Three Keys to Building a Disaster Recovery Plan
When you live in Texas, the phrase "be prepared," is more than a motto. Here are three important things to consider when implementing a disaster recovery plan.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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