Data Storage

Cloud computing expert Geoff Barral has outlined a number of factors that he believes businesses should take into account before switching their storage systems over to a cloud platform.
Writing on technology site V3, Mr Barral illustrated some of the challenges facing most modern IT departments, with increasing data volumes compounding the issues of managing the [...]

A £950 million project to build one of the world’s largest data centres in rural Scotland is just days away from approval by local council officials. Although the build has already received firm verbal support from public figures, a meeting on November 25th will see the ratification of the plans.
Once given the go-ahead, farmland not [...]

In an attempt to build awareness of its plethora of online services, Google has launched a dedicated website to explain the virtues of its online backup system. Users can find extensive information and instructional material at DataLiberation.org and the site is invaluable if you have been worrying about the vulnerability and accessibility of your personal [...]

Ralf DeFrangesco is just one of the many commentators who have begun to voice concerns about the security of the iPhone. As many businesses know, the more popular a device or platform the more serious the security risk. In excess of 50 million devices are now able to download one or more of the 85000 [...]

Although threats to the security of data within a business and the problems of data loss are serious, a persistent and seemingly insurmountable issue is that of ever increasing data volumes. For businesses that deal in text-based data with relatively small file sizes, this can be reasonably easily controlled. However, for firms such as IMG [...]

Data is the lifeblood of many modern businesses and there is little doubt that in the event of catastrophic data loss, for a business without adequate data protection measures in place, the consequences could be commercially fatal. Data corruption can arise in many ways. With data increasingly distributed around organisations in office applications on PCs [...]

Since many businesses store almost all of their records as electronic data, it is important to recognise that good record keeping practises apply to both physical and virtual storage solutions. There are also legal issues surrounding the storage and use of data which, if contravened, could have serious consequences. Some businesses may already unwittingly be [...]