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The hidden costs of the data explosion

Posted February 13, 2012 - 1:15 pm

As data grows out of control, it's easy to overlook the high price of maintaining BC/DR solutions to keep all that data safe.
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NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers

Posted February 9, 2012 - 9:58 pm

Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com launched a new category, with reviews and comparisons of the best cloud storage services.
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Symantec may have tried to bribe hackers, but definitely betrayed its own customers

Posted February 7, 2012 - 1:02 pm

Anonymous is laughing it up at Symantec's reputed attempt to bribe hackers to not release source code. Symantec calls it extortion. That question is trivial compared to the reality that Symnantec broke trust with its customers and left them at risk for six years following the hack.
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Video

What ad sites will crash during the Super Bowl?

Posted January 31, 2012 - 3:55 pm

We get a lot of pitches from companies during the Super Bowl week, but this one intrigued us more than others - web site optimizer site Yottaa is predicting which Super Bowl advertiser sites are likely to crash or slow down significantly during the game.
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Intense solar storm electrifies the air

Posted January 26, 2012 - 4:53 pm

Sorry boss, a solar storm has wiped out our data center here on earth.
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Symantec record: Two major hacks, two major delays admitting fault, risk to customers

Posted January 26, 2012 - 2:16 pm

If your company were hacked in a way that could directly hurt customers, would you announce the worst-case scenario so they could prep while you develop a solution? Or dribble out the news slowly? Symantec dribbled, first with SSL tokens, then source code, leaving customers at risk.
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Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service

Posted January 25, 2012 - 2:31 pm

Mozy released the beta of a new file synchronization service called Stash, which allows photos, videos or documents to be uploaded automatically to the cloud and shared across any device.
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Delta flights rerouted to avoid radiation attack from space

Posted January 24, 2012 - 4:47 pm

Delta diverted flights headed over the pole today to avoid the firehose of cosmic radiation drenching us with charged particles and static. It's mostly harmless unless you get run over by a car driven by a skygazer distracted by a rare aurora visible as far south as Scotland.
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Question

What can be done to make disaster recovery exercises more productive?

Posted January 24, 2012 - 12:41 pm

It's about that time of the year where we conduct our disaster recovery exercise. It seems a particularly appropriate time in light of the harsh weather that just passed through Alabama and the deep south.
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How to improve disaster recovery preparedness

Posted January 18, 2012 - 5:22 pm

10 best practices for updating and improving your current disaster recovery exercise program.
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Fukushima radiation built into apartment housing evacuees from disaster

Posted January 16, 2012 - 3:29 pm

It won't make Americans underwater on their mortgages any less angry by comparison, but it's hard not to sympathize with families evacuated from near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plants, then housed in apartments built with concrete flavored with radioactive cesium.
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Malware destroyed my data!

Posted January 12, 2012 - 10:56 am

Malware infected Jazzy007's PC, and his data disappeared--even after he removed the culprit. He asked the Answer Line forum for help.
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6 reasons small businesses need virtualization

Posted January 11, 2012 - 11:24 am

If you run a small or mid-sized business, server virtualization promises cost savngs and improved IT efficiency. To help ensure you understand the advantages, we drew up a list of the most tangible benefits that virtualization has to offer small and mid-sized businesses
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Navy researchers refuse to admit chain-of-accidents spy drone delivery system is a joke

Posted January 6, 2012 - 6:00 pm

The Naval Research Lab has come up with a super-stealthy, super-silly way to get tiny drones into enemy territory undetected. First you fly a balloon up to 60,000 feet and tell it to drop a mid-size drone. That dron flies as far as it can and then it drops a smaller drone that drops a Russian nesting doll whose intent is to confuse the enemy so much it just gives up.
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Virus attack gets convicted murderer a new trial

Posted January 5, 2012 - 12:48 pm

A stenographer who ignored the belt-and-suspenders policy of transcribing trials on both paper and disk was fired after a virus destroyed data on her computer, destroying the only transcript of a murder conviction, which was thrown out by appellate court that had no record to consider.
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Security researcher blows whistle on gaping Siemens' security flaw 'coverup'

Posted December 21, 2011 - 2:44 pm

Researcher Billy Rios, who has done security at Verisign, E&Y, the Dept. of Defense and other big organizations, blogged about a series of blatanly obvious security holes in Siemens' SIMATIC industrial control system, flaws Siemens claims do not exist.
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Intel is trying to kill your servers and broil your geeks

Posted December 13, 2011 - 4:16 pm

Intel is urging customers to run data centers 10 degrees to 20 degrees hotter than usual to save A/C costs, using Intel Node Manager to manage heat and avoid trouble. It also thinks you should get rid of UPSs, the water cooler and that brochure you keep fanning yourself with...
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Crashed drone is a shot in ongoing cyberwar with Iran, not just a spy plane

Posted December 7, 2011 - 12:18 pm

Iran claims it shot down a U.S. RQ-170 spy drone, but won't release proof or say if a new Russian electronic counter-measures system brought it down. Killed or crashed, the drone is one shot in a a cyber/real war using malware, murder and explosive sabotage as weapons.
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Disaster recovery 101: What you need to know

Posted December 5, 2011 - 5:00 pm

Some good starting points for those new to the discipline.
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U.S. power grid is a big, soft target for cyberattack, MIT study shows

Posted December 5, 2011 - 12:23 pm

Mistaken reports that an Illinois water utility was hacked have reduced the angst about Stuxnet-like attacks on U.S. utilities, but the risk is actually worse than ever and increasing in scope every day according to a comprehensive 2-year study of power utilities from MIT.
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VirtualSharp to enable disaster recovery to public clouds

Posted December 1, 2011 - 4:13 pm

VirtualSharp hopes to soon let its customers set up disaster recovery plans that fail over from their private clouds to public clouds, the company announced this week at the CloudBeat conference in Redwood City, California.
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NetApp, Iron Mountain team up on medical archive service

Posted November 29, 2011 - 11:37 am

NetApp is teaming up with Iron Mountain to offer its StorageGRID object storage software with two Iron Mountain medical data archiving services: the Digital Record Center for Medical Images and its vendor-neutral archive offering.
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Question

formatted my pc drive . data once recovered but image not as once before formatted.

Posted November 21, 2011 - 3:12 pm

i want my complete data back as was before formatted. wats any software in market to make images as before formated. and complete data back.? help
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Two U.S. satellites pwned in '07, '08; new report blames China

Posted November 18, 2011 - 11:48 am

Though it couldn't pin responsibility to China, the U.S. commission examining security issues between the U.S. and China warns we'd better get ready for wars that start with bad guys killing our satellites.
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The Green Grid on modular data centers

Posted November 17, 2011 - 10:32 pm

Your data center in a container
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