Backup / Recovery Breaking News

EMC forms Decho subsidiary, targets consumers' 'digital echo'
EMC has formed a new company known as Decho to help consumers manage personal information in the Internet cloud. More..

Lenovo Introduces Protection and Data Recovery Services
Lenovo Friday introduced two new service offerings -- PC protection service that insures Lenovo notebooks from accidental damage and Data Recovery Service that rescues users' data from a faulty hard disk. More..

7 Lessons That SMBs Can Learn from Big IT
Just because you don't have a large enterprise doesn't mean you can't run your IT operation like the big guys. Here are seven ways to help your SMB implement some of the lessons big IT operations have learned over the years. Using these tips, you should be able to improve productivity, cut costs, and keep your business running smoothly. More..

Barracuda bites into backup and disaster recovery
Security appliance vendor Barracuda Networks has bought BitLeap, a seller of backup and disaster recovery services. More..

Double-Take Software targets the utility data center
Data protection specialist Double-Take Software is preparing to join the likes of Microsoft, EMC, Hewlett-Packard and IBM in the promising utility data center market, according to Chairman, President and CEO Dean Goodermote. More..

School district saved by backup software
After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Griffin-Spalding County IT Director Rod Smith realized that his school system's network could have just as easily been destroyed, and its employees left without the data it uses to conduct everyday business. Without the ability to back up student information, the school system would face huge financial repercussions, because money that the system receives from the federal government is based on the availability and contents of that data. More..

Five ways to bulk up your network for telecommuters
A look at the most important techniques, technologies and practices that companies can adopt to bolster their remote WAN performance.  More..

How TBS screwed up its ALCS game coverage
So there I sat, popcorn in lap, waiting for Saturday night's sixth game in the American League Championship Series best of seven between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox to go live. And so I sat, and waited, and waited, and waited while watching "The Steve Harvey Show." More..

Report: Two new IRS systems have major security weaknesses
Two key systems that the Internal Revenue Service is deploying contain serious security vulnerabilities that pose a direct risk to taxpayer data, according to a report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. More..

Backup in a box for SMBs and consumers from Dell, Iomega
Dell and EMC's Iomega last week introduced two different backup appliances for use in small and midsize enterprises and for consumers. More..

Encrypted image backups open to new attack
Bitmaps stored inside encrypted backup files could be vulnerable to a sophisticated 'comparison' attack, a German security researcher has discovered. More..

Can I recover from recovering my PC?
Virtually all commercially-sold PCs come with some sort of recovery tool--an alternate way to boot your system (either a CD, a DVD, or a special key combination to press shortly after turning on your PC) that can return your hard drive to its factory condition. Thus, with just a few keystrokes, you can once again have a working copy of Windows, along with all the bundled junk you studiously removed, and none of your own files. More..

Staples turns backup into a service
Office-supply company Staples wants small and medium-size businesses that buy paper and scissors at its stores to start going there for their own data, too. More..

Disaster-recovery planning: You can't live without it
In our daily lives we try to protect ourselves from the worst. We buy insurance for our cars, homes and health and we safeguard personal information. Shouldn't business owners and IT managers treat their networks and critical infrastructure the same way? More..

Virtual server backups prone to failure, survey finds
Data backups in virtualized environments are often ineffective and inefficient, Symantec officials said after surveying users at VMworld in Las Vegas. More..

Atempo adds enterprise archiving for Macs
Atempo on Wednesday announced Atempo Digital Archive (ADA) for Mac. The new archive system is intended to provide Mac users with enterprise-class archiving capabilities. More..

Many Asian companies ill-equipped for disaster recovery
System failures are the bane of every organization, yet, how many companies actually have a feasible disaster recovery (DR) plan in place? Recent research, done from June to July this year, has shown that some Asian organizations may not be adequately equipped to have their data centers up and running soon enough to prevent business loss, in the event of an emergency. More..

My system crashed: How I got my data back
Last week was a mess for me - my laptop and I thought my disk drive had crashed - and I lost about two days of work because of it. More..

Cellular operators say they're ready for Gustav
With threats that Tropical Storm Gustav will clobber the U.S. Gulf coast, the nation's major cellular network providers say they are prepared, having learned from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina three years ago. More..

New Orleans IT departments brace for Tropical Storm Gustav
As Tropical Storm Gustav approaches the Gulf Coast this weekend and threatens to become a hurricane, the IT lessons learned from the devastating Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that smashed New Orleans and other areas in 2005 are on the minds of many worried IT managers. More..

Profile: DriveSavers stays true to data-recovery roots
DriveSavers takes data recovery seriously. So seriously, in fact, that the company recently installed a $2 million cleanroom complex in its Novato, Calif., headquarters. In this 2,000 square foot facility, DriveSavers can unseal and open up hard drives for diagnosis and repair without dust-borne contamination assaulting the now-naked spinning platters and swiftly seeking head assemblies. More..

How Hyper-V helped my IT revamp disaster recovery
For Munder Capital Management, server virtualization was all about improving their disaster recovery operations and ensuring that failed servers could be brought back online quickly. More..

IMCD Business Backup: Prepare for all ContingenZ's
Some years ago, I wrote about my friends and colleagues Michael Miora and Stephen Cobb's incident management planning and training program, then called IMCD. Now Michael and Stephen Cobb's brother, Michael Cobb, have updated the product and reduced the price all the way down to $99 per copy (10% of the original price). They have renamed this new version 3 as "IMCD Business Backup" to make it clearer that the software is an actual preparation and recovery tool, not just a planning tool. More..

Quantum's new Vision
Quantum is pulling it all together - its management software that is. The company this week announced a new management interface that it calls Vision, which manages all its disk and tape systems and its backup, recovery and archive systems. More..

Stolen tape puts Bristol-Myers employee data at risk
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. officials last week confirmed that a non-encrypted backup tape containing the personal data of current and former-employees and their dependents was stolen June 4 from a delivery truck carrying the device. More..