data protection
Businesses are increasingly using cloud computing as a key component of their data protection plans, a new research done by CA Technologies showed.
Partners Healthcare Systems prescribes high-performance medicine to its hospitals and other healthcare organizations. It deployed Web services to support diverse applications, including up-to-the minute emergency room patient data, a physician paging system, and data integration within electronic medical records (EMR).
With 160 programs and a 60,000 student body, the George Brown College Data Center Operations team needed to make sure it provided round-the-clock data service protection, including the ability to rapidly recover failed servers and an easier-to-use, and a faster way to deploy a rapidly-growing Windows server population. This case study looks at how the College switched to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced server with Acronis Universal Restore following realization that the Symantec Ghost solution was inadequate for the job.
St. Helens and Knowsley Health Informatics Service (HIS) serves about 12,000 users. In the wake of widely publicized breaches, government organizations throughout the U.K. face new mandates to protect private data. This case study describes how the HIS met requirements for securing data‐in‐motion by chooshing an Extensible Content Security (XCS) appliance from WatchGuard.
Online data protection services in the cloud are less expensive than owning your own data protection infrastructure, provide an immediate off-site location for DR, and are inherently scalable. But how does one evaluate the relative strengths of a wide array of service offerings? What are the key criteria to look for in an online data protection solution that will provide safe, reliable, and secure backup and DR in the cloud?
Most organizations would agree that their most valuable IT assets reside within applications and databases. Most would probably also agree that these are areas that have the weakest levels of security, making them the prime target for malicious insiders. This is a difficult problem to address, but it's not impossible.
In an era where it is predicted that 70 percent of a CIO’s budget is allocated to IT operations, virtualization makes business sense. With virtual resources, system administrators can focus their attention on a limited number of abstract device pools that can be centrally managed, rather than on a plethora of complex proprietary devices that must be individually managed. However, consideration needs to be taken on how virtualization impacts all environments in an organization, including a potential increase in security threats.
The threat of potential damages resulting from the theft, loss, or compromise of critical proprietary data on enterprise PCs is fueling the adoption of more robust data protection and recovery solutions. According to recently released survey findings from IDC, more than half (53%) of all organizations surveyed have deployed a software or service for PC backup.
Data loss is a common problem among government organizations. How to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access or accidental loss are two questions that Jeffrey Kok, corporate sales engineer at RSA, covers in this open and fairly frank discussion.
Grand Valley State University leverages Overland's solutions to bolster backup and recovery while elevating data protection of its rapidly growing VMware environment.
