Beware of the iCloud
ICloud, Apple's new cloud storage service, which officially launches this week, is an iPad/iPhone lover's dream and IT security professional's nightmare.
Maria Korolov | 12 Oct | Read more
ICloud, Apple's new cloud storage service, which officially launches this week, is an iPad/iPhone lover's dream and IT security professional's nightmare.
Maria Korolov | 12 Oct | Read more
8 products that can help cut your storage costs through data duplication
Logan Harbaugh | 13 Sep | Read more
Only 22 per cent of CommVault's ANZ customers are backing up their virtual server environments while another 25 per cent do not have a disaster recovery (DR) plan, according to the results of a global survey conducted by the vendor.
Hamish Barwick | 05 Sep | Read more
Responding to the <a href="http://www.bcbst.com/about/news/releases/default.asp?release=292">theft of 57 hard drives in 2009</a> , BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has completed a $6 million project to encrypt all of its at-rest data.
Lucas Mearian | 22 Aug | Read more
Amazon introduced a new cloud service aimed specifically at the United States government this week. Although the <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/238276/amazon_boosts_web_services_security_for_government_agencies.html">Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud</a> is targeted at government agencies, there are also some valuable lessons for private sector businesses and IT admins to learn about cloud servers and data storage.
Tony Bradley | 18 Aug | Read more
Hard drive crashes are a nightmare for computer users for many reasons. Not only can data held dear to one's heart be lost, but trying to recover it can cost an arm and a leg, if not more. Hard drive maker Seagate attempts to address both those problems with the release today of its GoFlex Turbo drive with SafetyNet data recovery services.
John P. Mello Jr. | 09 Aug | Read more
Barracuda Networks Inc. today announced it has doubled the capacity available to customers of its <a href="http://www.barracudanetworks.com/backup">backup service</a> while keeping the price the same.
Lucas Mearian | 04 Aug | Read more
Data governance, risk and compliance (GRC) should be viewed by IT managers as a business asset rather than something for the law firm to deal with, according to an IDC US senior analyst.
Hamish Barwick | 03 Aug | Read more
Symantec today announced its next-generation email and content archiving software, Enterprise Vault 10, which now purports to automatically classify email content and metadata and assign the appropriate archiving and retention policy to it.
Lucas Mearian | 02 Aug | Read more
It was widely reported last week that as part of a study, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) randomly dropped USB and optical drives in government and private contractor parking lots -- and more than half of those who picked one up readily plugged it into their work computer.
Lucas Mearian | 07 Jul | Read more
Apple's new Web storage system will sync your music, pictures, and more.
Daniel Ionescu | 08 Jun | Read more
Amazon's Cloud Player music streaming service launched only with Android compatibility, but an update rolled out this weekend quietly introduced basic support for Apple's iOS. If you have an Amazon Cloud Drive account (5GB free, plus a free 20GB upgrade if you purchase an album via Amazon MP3), you can now stream music on iOS devices too.
Daniel Ionescu | 09 May | Read more
At its Visions 2011 conference in Las Vegas this week, Symantec announced plans to offer its midrange backup and enterprise-class archive software products as SaaS offerings.
Lucas Mearian | 04 May | Read more
Researchers released a paper detailing how to hide data from prying legal eyes by exploiting disk fragmentation on a clustered file system, thereby hiding it in plain site.
Lucas Mearian | 29 Apr | Read more
The folks behind Dropbox have not been having an easy time recently. First it was suggested their PC client might be insecure, then changes in their terms and conditions raised security concerns.
Keir Thomas | 27 Apr | Read more