Budget limitations have on the other hand, resulted in some health authorities neglecting encryption technology, compromising their data. It is widely viewed...

Encrypted USBs should not be seen as a potential problem but as a cost-effective solution. They can be procured for less than the average tape price and will...

Positive steps can be made by the public health sector to adopt cost effective, tried and tested technology such as encrypted USB devices that will deliver...

Data loss continues to be a recurring problem throughout the health sector with the lack of encryption technology use at the heart of it.   Despite David...

The challenge for organisations is to understand the following key points; how their data evolves, determine how it grows, monitor how its usage changes over...

The disposition of data needs to be addressed.  Once an assigned retention period has been met, data will need to be disposed of in order to protect its...

Organisations have long regarded their stores of data as one of their most valuable assets.  The implications of data use determine whether an...

So what does disk offer that tape doesn’t and why are businesses starting to migrate in droves? There are several reasons. Firstly, although disk-based...

But deploying disk-based systems likewise means that it is no longer necessary to wait impatiently to get hold of tape catalogues that are both held in distant...

The problem is that many organisations do not adhere to manufacturers’ recommendations to replace their tapes every three months even though magnetic...

The advantage of data on disk-based systems, however, is that they are automated in line with pre-set policies. This means that administration costs are...

Given widespread fears of imminent recession, an inevitable focus for many organisations at the moment is working out how to do more with less. This...

At the other end of the performance spectrum, there are some heavyweight applications around.  Judging what server resources are needed to meet the end...

Server, or application virtualisation isn’t new.  Remember the old mainframes?  They used the concept of multi-tasking to share the resources...

The most popular implementation of clustering today is used to protect the availability of applications, such as Exchange and SQL, where two or more servers,...