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Inside Google's Data Center

October 18, 2012 10:27 am | News | Comments

Google's infrastructure czar gives a rare tour of the company's highly secure data center in North Carolina. With 55,200 servers the facility consumes huge amounts of energy, prompting a shift to a more efficient water-based cooling system and a dramatic increase in the server floor temperature from 68°F to 80°F.

ExaGrid & ATScloud Partner To Offer Secure Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery

March 10, 2013 3:44 pm | by BUSINESS WIRE | News | Comments

ExaGrid Systems, Inc., the leader in scalable and cost-effective disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, and ATScloud, the premiere hybrid-cloud solution provider, have announced a partnership to offer cloud-based Disaster Recovery as a Service. New and existing customers can replicate their backup data.

CMS Announces First-Ever USB 3.0 500 Gigabyte Laptop Self-Encrypting Drive

January 3, 2013 9:41 am | News | Comments

As enterprises make mission-critical data available to employees, they also must consider legal and compliance regulations in their respective industries. Many organizations are required by law to be in compliance with data protection standards. CMS’s new CE Secure DiskVault USB 3.0 helps ensure that companies meet regulations such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and more.

Zetta.net Offers Free Data Evacuation Service To Businesses Affected By Hurricane Sandy

October 30, 2012 2:11 pm | News | Comments

Zetta.net today announced a special data evacuation service offer for businesses in the areas affected by Hurricane Sandy. Critical data can be immediately evacuated to geographically dispersed, enterprise-grade data centers for free, where it will be securely preserved throughout the course of the storm.

Tervela Turbo Blasts Into The Big Data Marketplace

October 23, 2012 12:19 pm | News | Comments

Tervela Turbo, based on Tervela's proven data fabric platform, is a high-performance data movement engine that feeds mission-critical applications on the front-line of business with large-scale, streamed data. The product was built for real-time business intelligence and operational analytics.

IBM Unveils zEnterprise EC12 Mainframe Server

August 28, 2012 9:39 am | News | Comments

The new zEC12 offers industry-leading security and robust support for operational analytics that can help clients efficiently sift through large volumes of raw data and transform it to gain knowledge that can be used for competitive advantage.

Dell Continues To Expand Cloud Services

August 24, 2012 9:00 am | News | Comments

Dell is unveiling new and expanded cloud services to enable customers to select solutions that will help drive business results, whether they need strict security and compliance, large or small workload capabilities, real-time storage and retrieval, or quick and easy online access for configuring their cloud services.

ExaGrid Disk-Based Backup Selected By Companies With Petabytes Of Data To Protect

August 23, 2012 5:06 pm | News | Comments

Companies with large data volumes and high data growth are choosing ExaGrid’s disk backup with deduplication to meet their backup and recovery needs in large part because of ExaGrid’s GRID architecture, which provides easy scalability by adding full servers in a grid as data expands.

Drug Charges Dropped Because Of Too Much Digital Evidence

August 17, 2012 10:48 am | by RYAN J. FOLEY, Associated Press | News | Comments

A fugitive doctor charged in the nation's largest prosecution of Internet pharmacies is getting off in part because there's just too much evidence: more than 400,000 documents and two terabytes of electronic data that federal authorities say is expensive to maintain.

Data Lost During Disaster Exercise May Have Exposed 800,000 People

March 30, 2012 12:57 pm | by SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER, Associated Press | News | Comments

A disaster preparedness exercise to ensure California's child support system could be run remotely went smoothly, except for one casualty: the names, Social Security numbers and other private records of about 800,000 adults and children.

Critical Data: Don’t Overlook The Hardcopy

November 29, 2011 6:04 am | by Joe Flach, Safe Harbor Consulting | Blogs | Comments

I know we like to think we now work in a paperless society, but the fact is, we do not. There are still plenty of industries and processes that rely on hardcopy documentation for historical records and in support of daily operations. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs often overlook these vital records as they focus on technology and electronic medium — I caution you not to fall into this same trap.

Document Backup & Disaster Recovery System

November 28, 2011 11:27 am | News | Comments

LogicalDOC implements a backup and disaster recovery system — based on Amazon S3 — that allows you to store your documents in one or more geographically distant regions.