Data Destroyer Disk Wipe Ensures Your Privacy
Simply formatting a drive has never been enough to get rid of data completely; otherwise, data recovery specialists would be out of a job. That's where Data Destroyer Disk Wipe ($14, free demo) comes in. Not only does it erase data on a drive, it writes and rewrites over that data with random bytes, making the wiped data totally unrecoverable.
Compliance, backup, and recovery
Compliance with the ever-increasing array of legislative mandates presents a burden to management and IT staff alike. If you’re in financial services, you are bound by Gramm-Leach-Bliley; in health care, by HIPAA; or if you’re a publicly-held corporation, Sarbanes-Oxley. If you process credit card payments, there are PCI-DSS rules to consider.
Protecting Your Windows 2008 Server
Microsoft Windows has become the platform of choice for many businesses today. And with the recent release of Windows Server 2008, many organizations are making the upgrade to this next generation of the operating system.
Data recovery needn't be your dirty little secret
Enterprise recovery projects usually result from the physical failure of hard drives coming from RAID setups. And there isn't much enterprise can do to prevent this. But the following advice from data recovery experts and analysts will help enterprises from making the problems worse.
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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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Compliance, backup, and recovery
Protecting Your Windows 2008 Server
Separating Backup and Archiving; Securing Your Digital Information
Intel, Microsoft, HP sued for alleged patent infringement
Data recovery needn't be your dirty little secret
Data Destroyer Disk Wipe Ensures Your Privacy