You’re an IT decision maker, and business continuity (BC) is an important component of your IT infrastructure. You understand that accidental or malicious data loss, unplanned system outages, user error, hardware theft or failure, power failure, software failure, fire, flood, earthquakes, landslides, hurricanes, tidal waves and tornadoes can blow your company’s data into oblivion. Have [...]
Often, new technologies bury old ones – think of the demise of the horse and buggy or the record player. But sometimes, established technologies have a funny way of flailing for a bit then finding a new equilibrium. In-theater movie going, for instance, didn’t die when at-home devices became popular – they both simply learned [...]
This can be a very difficult question. A question that has created many products and solutions (inside and outside of IT…think insurance.) Other than the people, the most critical asset we have in most organizations is the information. If it were not for that information we wouldn’t need all of the switches, routers, servers, and storage. [...]
It seems that as we find newer, faster and more efficient ways to store, access and manipulate data, we can’t seem to keep up with the growth of the data itself. Even worse, we seem to be at odds with finding ways to successfully protect that data from being lost in the abyss. Backups exist [...]
Presenting Softchoice’s Top 6 backup challenges brought on by the virtualization revolution. Few who’ve seen virtualization implemented in their organizations would debate its benefits. Reduced costs, fewer physical servers, less IT admin time – what’s not to love? But as users rely more on virtual machines, protecting the virtual environment is becoming more critical and [...]
This article originally appeared on Stephen’s personal blog. You can visit it here. Most people feel naked without their smart phones and tablets. The adoption rates of these devices over the last five years have been explosive with an expected 10 billion by 2020, according to Morgan Stanley (to give you an idea of the magnitude [...]
What is it that you want to protect most? This can be a very difficult question. A question that has created many products and solutions (inside and outside of I.T…think insurance). Other than the people, the most critical asset we have in most organizations is the information. If it were not for that information we [...]
