Online Backup

A new survey has shown that European businesses are not protecting their data properly, leaving them open to serious problems in the event of downtime and making recovery difficult.
The report revealed that 63 per cent of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) in France, the UK and Germany are likely to take in excess of a [...]

Businesses are unable to property protect and backup their data because of budgetary constraints according to a new survey of over 400 leading UK businesses.
Although most businesses understand that proper preparation for disaster to ensure continuity is important, economic pressures are forcing management teams to tighten the purse strings when it comes to data security [...]

An outage yesterday meant that over 10 million blogs were left offline for close to 2 hours, costing the wordpress community around 5 million page views. Even Wordpress admitted this is the worse outage they have seen in 5 years.
Matt Mullenweg wrote;
“We are still gathering details, but it appears an unscheduled change to a core [...]

When we first started using Wordpress to power our own website earlier this year we were pleased to see that there were a few plugins available to back up our site but disappointed that none of them offered true online backup.
Blogging is big business and if you’ve invested hundreds or thousands of hours writing blog [...]

A new survey has found that many more small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are becoming interested in cloud computing systems.
In 2009 it was found that just 22 per cent of small companies used some form of cloud computing solution, but according to a study carried out on behalf of internet provider Easy Connect, this [...]

HP has unveiled a trinity of technologies that it claims will allow businesses to further benefit from their current cloud computing solutions.
HP hopes that it will offer improvements in the form of cost-cutting, risk management and improved flexibility within cloud platforms.
The firm has created the new services in the light of a new study it [...]

It has emerged that a significant proportion of secondary schools in the UK are failing to meet the data backup guidelines laid out by government agency Becta.
In a recent study of over 100 schools around the country, in which the network managers were questioned on a variety of topics, it was found that many schools [...]

The Microsoft-owned mobile technology provider Danger Inc. has caused massive inconvenience to owners of the T-Mobile branded Sidekick handset. In a recent data loss disaster, all personal data, including calendars, contact information and notes has been completely destroyed. Because Microsoft did not back up any of the data they have been forced to release a [...]

There has been widespread reporting this week of a recent fraud case where fully PCI-DSS Compliant businesses were victim to a huge and repeated breach which allowed the perpetrators to steal 130 million individual records.
Trustwave, a computer security firm, conducted its 2008 audit of Heartland on April 30 and deemed it compliant with Payment Card [...]

The laws behind data protection have always been complicated to say the least.  With many laws contradicting one another depending on the type of company, type of industry, type of data, use of data and age of data.  The complex rules and regulations often leave companies protecting their data incorrectly, or worse still they do [...]