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How to Backup Files On Your Computer - Part 1: The Basics

Posted December 5, 2012 - 12:02 pm

Nobody enjoys backing up their computers, but imagine the pain of losing every picture of your children, every vacation, graduation, birthday, and wedding. It usually takes getting burned once to be prodded into a backup strategy. Being prepared before that first disaster is a much saner option.
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For midsize businesses, there is a new way to spell risk: BYOD

Posted December 4, 2012 - 9:51 pm

Online and offline, in IT departments and across organizations, the bring your own device (BYOD) debate is raging.
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How to choose between scale-up vs. scale-out architectures for backup and recovery

Posted December 4, 2012 - 2:56 pm

There is a lot of discussion in the storage industry in regard to "scale-up" versus "scale-out" architectures for backup and recovery operations. More and more organizations are reducing or eliminating the use of tape by deploying disk-based appliances that use deduplication. But the architectural approach used by the appliance vendor can make a significant difference to the performance, scalability and total cost of the selected solution.
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Targeted Attacks: Don't be a Victim

Posted November 29, 2012 - 2:15 pm

Advanced Persistent Threats are on the rise. Organizations lose hundreds of thousands of dollars because traditional security just can't keep up. Effective security should be your eyes and ears throughout the network..
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Kill Your Data To Protect It From Cybercriminals

Posted November 29, 2012 - 2:15 pm

Best practices about how you can make cybercriminals bypass your network and look for less robustly protected targets, and addresses why key and certificate management is becoming the benchmark for effective security and compliance.
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UC Berkeley Chooses Trend Micro Deep Security for Campus Security Services

Posted November 29, 2012 - 2:15 pm

Replacing end-of-life Cisco Security Agent simplifies security management and reduces the data center server security footprint.
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Best Practices for Mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats

Posted November 29, 2012 - 2:15 pm

This research will enable security practitioners to understand the new threats they face and the best-practice steps they must take in order to reduce the risk of compromise against the advanced adversaries taking direct aim at their organisations.
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Why your data center TCO and location matter

Posted November 19, 2012 - 3:59 pm

From tax incentives to energy rates, there are several key factors that directly impact the total cost of ownership over the lifetime of your data center. Building your facility in the right place, then, is no small task. Here's what you need to know to keep costs down.
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Nine security controls to look for in cloud contracts

Posted November 19, 2012 - 9:02 am

To help ease the concerns of cloud security, which Gartner says is still a chief inhibitor to enterprise public cloud adoption, buyers are looking to contracts and service-level agreements to mitigate their risks.
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CA ARCserve r16 vs. Symantec Backup Exec 2012

Posted November 16, 2012 - 12:00 pm

In this report, Network Testing Labs puts CA ARCserve r16 and Symantec Backup Exec 2012 to the test. Both products boast an abundance of new features and enhancements.
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Sandy wounded servers, some grievously, say services firms

Posted November 7, 2012 - 3:50 pm

Companies that specialize in data recovery are still getting many calls for help from businesses and institutions whose equipment was damaged by the effects of Hurricane Sandy.
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How IT leaders can best plan for disaster

Posted November 7, 2012 - 8:07 am

Hurricane Sandy left devastation in its wake, first pounding the Caribbean and then pummeling the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the U.S. People and businesses are now struggling to get back on their feet. As a CIO or IT leader, you need to ask yourself: Will your organization be prepared for the next disaster?
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Prepare your business for digital disaster

Posted November 5, 2012 - 11:44 am

Note: This article was originally published in late September 2012. However, following hurricane Sandy and increased concerns about disaster preparedness, we have decided to reprint this guide. If you have any suggestions not covered in the article, please share your ideas in a comment below.
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FEMA sets up 'rumor control' to counter online misinformation

Posted November 5, 2012 - 3:52 am

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency has set up a "rumor control" section on its website to counter misinformation on social networks that has affected relief efforts after Hurricane Sandy.
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From near disaster to shaky recovery in NYC

Posted November 2, 2012 - 9:32 pm

Hurricane Sandy brought the tide in, literally. But the flooding in lower Manhattan had the same effect on data centers that exposed the problems and shortcomings in the system.
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3 tips for making highly available systems in Amazon's cloud

Posted November 2, 2012 - 8:58 pm

There are ways to prepare your cloud system to make sure it is not impacted -- it just may cost more.
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What's the best choice for individuals that want to have backup power?

Posted November 2, 2012 - 11:49 am

I wasn't in the area of the country that suffered (or continues to suffer) power outages, but I have been through a couple of hurricanes in the past. Surprisingly, the longest I was ever without power wasn't because of a hurricane, it was because of an unexpected severe thunderstorm.
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Drama in NYC as data center temp passes 100 degrees

Posted November 1, 2012 - 4:43 pm

There's real-time drama unfolding at one of the data centers operating at 111 8th Ave. in NYC, a Google-owned building that occupies a full city block.
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Even with prep, did Wall Street's business continuity plans fail?

Posted November 1, 2012 - 11:30 am

A report slams Wall Street for lack of foresight in preparing for a megastorm the size of Hurricane Sandy, stating that the New York Stock Exchange shut down for two days in part because it was not ready to use an all-electronic trading system during the disaster.
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Huge customer effort keeps flooded NYC data center running

Posted November 1, 2012 - 10:34 am

When seawater from Hurricane Sandy flooded streets in lower Manhattan Monday night, it filled the bottom floors of the basement of an office building at 75 Broad St. This was not a good development for the data center operated by Peer1 Hosting.
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NASA video shows life of Hurricane Sandy

Posted October 31, 2012 - 2:50 pm

NASA has released a time-lapsed video of Hurricane Sandy, showing the storm move from its birth in the Caribbean to when it made landfall on the East Coast of the U.S.
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Hurricane Sandy: Power, wireless outages linger in lower Manhattan

Posted October 31, 2012 - 1:27 pm

Two days after Hurricane Sandy hit northeast U.S. coastal areas, power and communications outages are continuing to be a concern, especially in lower Manhattan.
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What lessons can IT take away from Hurricane Sandy?

Posted October 31, 2012 - 11:53 am

Many of us on the east coast are still dealing with the aftermath of the storm, and I hope everyone is doing ok. Did you learn anything that might help mitigate problems if there is another massive disruptive event like Sandy?
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Traditional Backup is Dead - Are You Prepared?

Posted October 31, 2012 - 11:45 am

Conventional backup and recovery approaches are not robust enough to meet today's data and information management challenges, let alone those of tomorrow. A new strategy is essential.
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Four commands to spook a sysadmin

Posted October 30, 2012 - 11:41 am

Wanna give a good Halloween scare to that special system or database administrator in your life? Try mentioning one of these commands
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