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Top 10 Tips for Data Recovery
Blog You can define your data recovery policy according to how critical that system is, the chance of failure and how much you are willing to spend to minimise recovery time. Assess how critical your data is
[July 20, 2009, 17:45]
FBI network security slammed
Blog In a report entitled "FBI Needs to Address Weaknesses in Critical Network", the GAO said that the FBI was not doing enough to guard its law enforcement data from insider threats. Specifically, FBI did not consistently configure network devices and...
[May 25, 2007, 15:58]
Getting To Grips With Data Security
Blog With well over half* of data leakages caused by staff, the issue has to be addressed by all employers who give two hoots about the confidentiality of their data and their reputation. Following the recent number of high profile data losses, we’ve...
[September 26, 2008, 13:38]
Online Training Needs Assessment: Measure Learning Performance Effortlessly
Blog In order to evaluate the whole learning process and know the exact data, all assessment results must be properly collected and processed in the learning system. And the Web quiz apps Desktop quiz apps usually come with a results component, for...
[July 23, 2008, 10:03]
Will software ever be flawless?
Blog Little of the data that the software is designed to handle, and the associated risks to it are addressed by security coding alone. Clearly when the idea for a software program is developed, the associated risks to the data it will handle should be...
[March 31, 2009, 13:50]
ID Card on track says government
Blog The Commissioner will also review how we are keeping personal data secure and report any data protection breaches to the Information Commissioner at the same time as the Home Secretary. Protecting the public is a top priority for the Government and...
[November 6, 2008, 13:03]
Novell aims to support mission-critical cloud stacks
Blog If you believe that the data centre is currently undergoing an evolution then you may wish to dig deeper into this subject. Proponents of this type of tech say that the data centre is about to become more service driven.
[July 28, 2009, 13:34]
hackers, bulldozers, and other potential joys of cloud computing
Blog At the moment things could be ok with this, cos most of us have machines with plenty of storage, the potential to cheaply get more on demand, and the sense to keep our most cherished and critical data close to us.
[June 27, 2008, 21:28]
BMC Software acquires Tideway Systems
Blog In a statement on Monday, BMC said that the acquisition of London-based Tideway will enhance its Business Service Management Platform and help organisations to minimise the risks associated with business-critical initiatives such as data centre...
[October 20, 2009, 17:19]
Sybase breaks ‘new’ ground with ‘In-Database’ business analytics
Blog This ‘new’ approach to extreme analytics is argued to open up a new gateway to performing critical drill-downs and predictive analysis in data-intensive environments. Das told me that, "The Sybase IQ 15.1 release represents a positive progression...
[July 14, 2009, 14:00]
ZManda puts SME backup in the cloud
Blog According to Henry Baltazar, storage analyst for The 451 Group, “SMBs will increasingly turn to secure offsite, cloud-based backup and recovery services such as Zmanda to protect their business critical applications and data.
[February 17, 2009, 16:23]
Fujitsu, blades and virtualisation
Blog PRIMERGY Blade Servers can now deliver state-of-the-art data transfer and back up demanded by mission-critical systems, even within virtual machines. Designed for use in data centres, the card has a dual capability with its 10 Gbit Ethernet and...
[March 19, 2008, 15:30]
Sun Shines On Cloud Security
Blog In line with this week’s news, Sun has also published a white paper entitled Building Customer Trust in Cloud Computing with Transparent Security, which the company says, “Provides an overview of transparent security and the ways in which...
[December 18, 2009, 11:55]
Knowledge Management for Stolen Wheelie Bins
Blog I’m not suggesting the log of my wheelie bin theft was mission critical data, but you get the gist right? A contributing factor for this reality is helpdesk support (just like I received) and the need to keep operatives productive - and for the...
[January 18, 2009, 23:43]
Homeland Security gives cyber 'early warning system' details
Blog Information Sharing and Analysis Centres share critical national infrastructure (CNI) data between US CNI organisations and government. We share data about anomalous network activity. Garcia added that the US government plans to accelerate data...
[April 8, 2008, 22:35]
What Microsoft needs to do about the Sidekick fiasco
Blog And while Microsoft has many very competent people, the loss of all data goes beyond personal incompetence. Cloud means many things, but it doesn't normally mean having a single copy of data running on a single system: Google's downtimes have been...
[October 13, 2009, 21:23]
Behind the Scenes: Next Gen Mobile Technology
Blog As the sophistication of mobile devices continues to improve and data-driven components become increasingly saturated throughout the market, mobile search is an emerging market where nobody can afford to let their guard down.
[July 5, 2009, 19:42]
Raining on the cloud
Blog It could be either a large service delivery uptime issue or a big security issues - and CIOs will be reinforced in their preference for building their own data centres as opposed to shipping the crown jewels of the business out to Amazon.
[January 1, 2010, 20:20]
Human technology
Blog I had always imagined my brother-in-law’s ‘personnel’-related duties to be mostly about interviewing candidates and job appraisals, not huge multi-layer data driven planning systems. The report revealed how organisations can navigate HR data from a...
[August 2, 2007, 13:28]
Business Service Management: veneer or vital component?
Blog But BSM specialists such as Managed Objects (along with larger players that have BSM offerings within their arsenal such as HP and CA) will venture to distinguish this technology and say that BSM translates event data - that is, data about the...
[February 12, 2008, 9:55]
