Enterprises today have many more backup choices than they used to have, and they’re taking advantage by pairing legacy technologies such as tape backups with newer disk-based data protection options.
Picking the right consumer online storage offering can mean the difference between backup bliss and a frustrating experience with complex user interfaces and unneeded services.
A new paid security app from Lookout Mobile Security works with the vendor's cloud-based services to detect and block smartphone malware on Android phones, and to backup more types of user data.
Symantec released version 2.0 of its Norton Online Backup product, which now supports Mac OS X and allows file sharing between users and Web access to any backed up documents.
Symantec Corp. Thursday formally unveiled its cloud-based storage service, Norton Online Backup, marketing it as a consumer product for managing up to five PCs on a home network through a single dashboard. Norton Online Backup also offers the protection of Norton 360 antivirus software.
Just hours after Microsoft Corp. accidently launched , then yanked, a Web site promoting its new "My Phone" backup and sync service, the company restored the site and posted more information about the free service.
University of Utah officials this week acknowledged that a metal box of backup tapes containing billing records of some 2.2 million patients was stolen early this month from the car of a courier who left it in a parked car overnight outside his home.
Network admins have spent many a late night trying to figure out how to improve application response or file replication across the WAN. Faster performance is all about bigger pipes, right?
What Sept. 11, 2001 taught network administrators is that having your backup server on site was not much of a backup if the entire grid went down. So in the past decade big strides have been made to create duplication offsite. With the latest natural disaster in Hurricane Sandy making a path of destruction through the East, the disaster preparedness plan is being put to a test.
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Along with a refresh of its desktop line , Apple Inc. Tuesday also updated its AirPort Extreme wireless base station and the Time Capsule wireless backup device.
We have several remote offices that are totally dependent on their local Internet connection for the VPN connection back to us for corporate e-mail and VoIP services. I have been asked to look into a backup Internet connection. Any suggestions on what type of connections would be the best to use?
IBM has issued a warning to customers that security fixes should be installed for two vulnerabilities in the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup software client. The security holes could allow a buffer overrun attack or enable unauthorized access to stored data, IBM said.
Most of the current furor over leaks of proprietary data has centered on cases of lost or misplaced laptops or backup tapes. A few years ago, with less mainstream media attention, there was a similar round of stories about data leaks. Most of them centered on careless end-of-life management for desktops and servers.
Bunches of vendors are adding continuous or near-continuous data protection (CDP) software to their suites of backup software. Among those are EMC, Symantec, IBM and HP and a host of start-ups, including Mendocino, Mimosa Systems, Atempo and Timespring.
Founded in 2004, Silver Peak Systems is young compared to many of the players in the WAN optimization market. I caught up with CEO Rick Tinsley last week, who talked about the company’s origins and how its acceleration technology is geared for big-pipe settings -- DS3 and OC3 data center replication and backup environments, for example.
Backing up your network isn’t much good if you don’t have a mechanism for determining if your backups completed successfully. Further, even though a bunch of tools are available that monitor and report on backup operations, those tools aren’t much good if the media you are using is corrupt.
IBM, Symantec and EMC this week announced software and hardware for managing and protecting data on the network. IBM rolled out a new storage array – the DS3000 – for small and midsize businesses. Symantec introduced new versions of its Backup Exec data protection software, and e-mail and file system archiving software.