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Five storage strategies that will save you money: Forrester
Five storage strategies that will save you money include playing hardball with vendors and maximizing current resources. More..

Losing your data - the third-party way
Outsourcing of critical business components to third parties has been a trend for a number of years, and has been something that Information Security personnel have been concerned about from the start, particularly due to the risk posed by having sensitive company data in a remote location outside the control of the company. More..

RIM BlackBerry How To: Back Up and Restore Handheld Data
Anyone who has ever experienced the pain of losing all the data on a PC or handheld intimately knows the value of backing up personal information, whether it's an iTunes music collection, digital photo album or address book. This can be easier said than done, but BlackBerry users are in luck: The handheld data backup and restore process for Research In Motion (RIM) smartphones couldn't be simpler when you use the BlackBerry Desktop Manager software, which ships with every new RIM device. MORE ON BlackBerry BlackBerry Bible: Everything You Need to Know About Your RIM Smartphone Should BlackBerry Users Demand Overtime Pay? Some Lawyers Say Yes Free BlackBerry Downloads You Don't Want to Miss BlackBerry How To: Insert, Format and Use microSD Memory Cards More..

Marriott takes disaster recovery, virtualization underground
Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center caused scores of companies to reconsider their disaster recovery and business continuity plans, whether they were affected by those catastrophic events or not. More..

MessageLabs secures e-mail backup
MessageLabs, best known as a provider of e-mail security services, last week introduced a managed e-mail backup service that has as a selling point the same security features built into the company's other products. More..

HP adds deduplication
HP last week introduced not just one, but two data deduplication technologies that let IT reduce the amount of data they back up. More..

Flooded firms reassess disaster recovery plans
As historic floodwaters start to recede along the Mississippi and other Midwestern rivers, local businesses in affected communities like Cedar Falls, Iowa, are busy assessing the impact on IT equipment and whether disaster recovery plans stood the test. More..

Data Domain targets archiving
Backup and recovery specialist Data Domain is moving into archiving, by adding file locking software to its de-duplicating storage systems. The software - called Retention Lock - is designed to deal with regulatory compliance and IT governance issues by protecting archived data from accidental or malicious deletion. More..

In case of emergency
If you've scanned the headlines lately or simply live downwind of the central portion of the 31st state, you're aware that far too much of California has been ablaze in the last month. It happens that I live darned close to a couple of these hot-spots and, having packed the car twice now with the idea of fleeing with family and felines when the reverse 911 call comes in, it's natural that my attention has been increasingly devoted to emergency preparedness--and that includes the protection and salvation of my data. More..

Iowa floods force firms into race to keep IT afloat
As historic floodwaters continue to hammer Cedar Falls, Iowa, local businesses are already assessing the environmental disaster's impact on IT operations, and how their disaster recovery plans are faring. More..

Disaster recovery paramount now that hurricane season is here
With hurricane season starting this month, businesses need to establish and test plans for how they will protect network data and gear, and recover from outages, the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education says. More..

Symantec merges storage management with Xen virtualization
Symantec is updating its line of backup products and releasing a storage and server virtualization package. More..

Sync tool can backup and merge Outlook files
German software developer IT-Services Thomas Holz has claimed that its latest synchronization tool for Microsoft Outlook can not only sync an Outlook database from one PC to another, it has also gained the ability to merge individual diary data into a shared calendar and can create Outlook backups. More..

Double-Take eases virtual server migration
Double-Take Software, the U.S. company better known for its replication software, has announced the availability of its Virtual Recovery Assistant to avoid computer downtime when migrating from physical to virtual servers. More..

EMC upgrades backup portfolio, unveils power saving technology
MC updated its backup products and unveiled new power-saving technology at EMC World this week. More..

Strategies for keeping disaster recovery on target
It was a normal Monday batch process at a well-respected global bank -- until, that is, a critical back-office system failed. At first, IT administrators took it in stride. This wasn't the only time they'd had to recover lost data. But soon it became clear something more ominous was occurring: the bank's multi-terabyte database had become corrupted. More..

Free data rescue/back-up Mac tool ships
Paragon Software Group has introduced a free utility for Macs, Rescue Kit for Mac OS X - Lite. More..

The ugly side of disaster recovery
There are a thousand criteria to account for when selecting a disaster recovery (DR) site. The number of miles from your DR site to your production site and meeting your application recovery time objectives (RTO) are just some of the variables that companies try to address. Now add "Create a movable DR site just in case" to the list. More..

Hurricane Katrina disaster recovery lessons still popping up
A blow-by-blow account of the disaster recovery plan that enabled a New Orleans-based company to record near-record sales in the days after Katrina. More..

Forrester: IT must prove need for disaster recovery tools
Even though more than a quarter of companies have faced a disaster over the past five years, according to Forrester Research Inc., IT managers must still do a better job at convincing business leaders to invest in disaster recovery systems. Forrester analyst Stephanie Balarous said managers must work to convince corporate executives that disaster recovery is not simply an "insurance policy," but can boost operational efficiency by protecting systems against potential failures. More..

Hosted Time Capsule back-up service launches
Users of Leopard Macs are being offered secure remote hosted storage for their Time Capsule backups. More..

Mozy online backup service comes to Mac
EMC on Thursday introduced Mac support for Mozy, its online backup service. MozyHome for Mac enables Mac users to back up and all data to a secure online location. The service is free for storage up to 2GB, and costs $4.95 per month for unlimited storage capacity. More..

Judge tells White House to resolve e-mail backup 'ambiguity'
A federal judge has told the White House to answer "once and for all" whether backup tapes holding e-mail documents sought by a Washington-based watchdog group have been preserved. More..

Turn off the 'Use disk for Time Machine?' warning
In OS X 10.5, each time you connect an external drive for the first time, the system will thoughtfully ask if you'd like to use that drive for your Time Machine backup. The first time you see this, you think "Wow, that's a nice touch, Apple! Always thinking about what's best for me!" More..

HP's Upline hosted storage service remains down
HP said its new online storage service will protect your data "whether your hardware fails, your computer is lost or catastrophe strikes." More..