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The benefits that continuous data protection (CDP) technology provides as part of a company’s overall data protection strategy are becoming more evident everyday. Point-in-time restores, faster recoveries and off-site replication of data for disaster recoveries are just some of the benefits that companies using CDP are already experiencing. However one of the challenges that companies [...]

This blog entry is the second in a series of interviews with David Farajun, Asigra’s CEO, where David looks at how Asigra Televaulting addresses new corporate concerns around information data protection and information recovery. In this entry, David explains why an appropriately configured Data Collector is so important to data protection and information recovery and [...]

Nokia’s Ovi service had a data loss event. No big deal, only their most recent backup was nearly 3 weeks old. They and their customers have lost all data created since the 23rd January. The Register have the full details.

Journalspace.com have just demonstrated why RAID is not a backup. They were doing the following: “…the server which held the journalspace data had two large drives in a RAID configuration. As data is written (such as saving an item to the database), it’s automatically copied to both drives, as a backup mechanism.” What happened was [...]

This guy got a bit of a fright when he tried to copy data off a DVD-R… I’ve got all of the original iMovie projects backed up on DVD, in clear cases, neatly arrayed in a drawer next to my desk. (My hard drive wasn’t big enough to hold those 50 videos a year.) Guess [...]

In many organizations, backing up data has been one of the main jobs of the IT department and one that offers the least fun. It is a task that has to occur daily — at least. It chews up valuable time and resources, can lead to significant problems if not completed properly, has become more [...]

By Zach Church, News Writer 23 Jul 2008 | SearchCIO-Midmarket.com Data deduplication, just in the past year, has become a potentially money-saving technology that shouldn’t be ignored, a Forrester Research Inc. analyst says. By eliminating a company’s redundant data — with the amount varying by company — deduplication tools are for the first time offering [...]

Asigra Televaulting Achieves “Certified for SAP NetWeaver®” Status Certified Integration of Televaulting Brings Centralised Agentless Remote Backup to Enterprises LONDON – Wednesday 30th January, 2008 – Asigra Inc., the leader in remote backup and recovery software for global enterprises and service providers, today announced that the company’s flagship product, Asigra Televaulting 8.0, has achieved “Certified [...]

Online backup services now make it feasible – and easy – to set up efficient DR strategies for SMEs Start with a given: If you are a midsized company, you need to develop, test and maintain a comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plan. And, don’t start with the excuses that you can’t afford [...]

Conventional wisdom says that IT outsourcing is more appropriate for larger companies. Yet there are many who argue that outsourcing is just as relevant to small business too, writes Brian Skelly in SiliconRepublic. Conventional wisdom says that IT outsourcing is more appropriate for larger companies. Given their scale, they have most to benefit if an [...]