ITworld Data Protection/Recovery

What would a post-e-mail world look like?

jfruh — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:39:51 +0000

E-mail may be on the decline, but its archival abilities can't be matched by any current contender.

Gartner: Don't trust cloud provider to protect your corporate assets

IDGNS staff — Sun, 27 May 2012 11:03:12 +0000

When a family with a baby buys a new car, they don't buy a car seat from the vehicle manufacturer: There is specialized equipment to handle the family's most sensitive asset. John Pescatore, a Gartner vice president and security analyst, says cloud security can be thought of in a similar way: Users shouldn't rely on their cloud service provider's security features to protect their most critical data.

vRanger Helps Cut Replication Time by Almost 70%

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:45:23 +0000

There's a reason why more than 38,000 customers trust vRanger to protect their critical virtual data! In this Quest Software case study, see how vRanger helped Cornerstone Bancshares, Inc. cut replication time from days to minutes - and how this translated to real time and money savings.

ESG: Product Brief: Quest vRanger 5.3 brings enterprise-class VMware protection to SMB's

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:45:23 +0000

Free paper: how virtualization impacts SMBs, and strategies for enterprise-class VMware protection

IDC Vendor Spotlight

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:45:21 +0000

Your company needs backup and recovery that supports a tiered-recovery model. This IDC Vendor Spotlight examines the modern forces driving the advancements in today's data protection technologies, and a complete backup and recovery solution that works across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Distributed Database Security with Real-time Monitoring

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:15:32 +0000

View this demo and learn how IBM InfoSphere Guardium database activity monitoring can help protect your sensitive data in distributed DBMS environments with a holistic approach to data security and compliance.

Database Activity Monitoring Is Evolving

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:15:31 +0000

Read the analyst report and learn how you can leverage the core capabilities of a DAP solution for better database security.

Thinking Outside The Data Warehouse

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:15:29 +0000

This high level, business problem focused eBook uses 5 customer scenarios to show how people and organizations are tackling real issues using IBM solutions.

The Forrester Wave™: Disaster Recovery Services Providers

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:00:12 +0000

Improvements in disaster recovery plans and broad business continuity strategies are top-of-mind concerns for leading enterprises today and recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. These key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report.

How To Guarantee 100% Recoverability of Your Backup

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:15:13 +0000

The single biggest challenge for IT personnel involved in the data protection process is making sure that their backups are recoverable every time. Data center managers are looking for ways to improve their confidence in the recovery process, but recovery confidence is gained through the use of tools that will verify the ability to recover data. In this area, vendors are found surprisingly lacking. This white paper identifies how to guarantee 100% recoverability of your backup.

Microsoft MVP Expert Guide: Windows Server Backup for VM & Physical Servers

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:15:10 +0000

Backup. Disaster recovery. Business continuity. Given the absolute necessity of a backup plan, smart organizations are making that plan a great one. The best plans minimize downtime, minimize data loss, and minimize overhead to help backup become a robust and appreciated part of the IT environment. Here are ten of the things you should be doing to make your backup plan the best it can be.

Mobile malware trick: Give users real apps, plus infection on the side

KevinFogarty — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:29:53 +0000

Unlike in most other malware markets, malware writers aiming at Android have always had a strong profit motive. Now they're going even more capitalist -- delivering the value they promised by wrapping good code in malware rather than just pretending

ownCloud: Universal access to local data

bproffitt — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:24:05 +0000

Personal cloud storage is all the rage. But what if you don't want your data out in the cloud?

Security: Prepared for the EU's new data protection regulation?

IDGNS staff — Tue, 22 May 2012 01:01:45 +0000

Big changes are coming to data protection laws in the European Union. Are you ready?

DEA wants to shoot every car passing through SW corner of Utah

KevinFogarty — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:46:56 +0000

If DEA gets its way it will be able to photograph, OCR and trace every license plate on every car that passes through the corner of Utah between Salt Lake and Vegas. Lawmakers worry about embarrassing constituents. They should worry about betraying them instead.