In the end, the fate of businesses rests on data. More important than the processing of new data or its movement through the network is the task of keeping data available and uncorrupted. Read more here:

Clever software to backup all your files GBData online backup software can backup Microsoft exchange, SQL, Lotus Notes, MYSQL, and Oracle as well as all of your normal file types. Read more about it here:

GBData online backup software uses unique technology to backup only those parts of a file that have changed, thus ensuring that your backups are completed fast! Read more about it here:

GBData Online backup software uses military strength encryption to ensure that your data is completely secure, before it leaves your computer. Read more about it here:

This White Paper discusses how online backup, utilising advanced disk-to-disk technology, provides a superior alternative to tape-based solutions. Traditional tape-based backup is a cumbersome, error-prone process that drains IT resources. Online Backup delivers a better way to protect business-critical data, taking advantage of existing networks to quickly and efficiently back up all servers, desktops, and notebooks distributed throughout an organisation. Read more here:

Any business that uses electronic communications is at risk of electronic data theft. Every business has data that should remain confidential. Theft or loss of customer records, business plans, and even sales presentations can result in legal action, brand damage or a rapidly dwindling customer base.

A quarter of businesses have had IP or confidential proprietary information stolen in the last 12 months1. The associated costs are astronomical. If every large enterprise in the US suffered one serious data breach, the national bill would exceed USD$523 billion2.

One Australian company reported a total AUD$40 million loss following a single data breach3. Indeed, theft or breach of confidential data or IP was the greatest cause of financial loss for Australian businesses over the past 12 months4. Read more here:

Corporations have steadily moved critical applications and data from the mainframe to servers, and now to desktop and mobile PCs. In fact, in a recent IDC report, more than 300 million business PCs have a combined 109,000 terabytes of data that is not backed up regularly and, “as much as 60% of corporate data resides unprotected on PC desktops and laptops.” Read more here:

Backing up your computer is terribly boring, but when your machine inexplicably dies, you will regret not doing it.

The great advantage about keeping your data on paper is that it is pretty resilient. Short of fire, flood or the shredder, the information will survive and you can still read it.

When you are storing electronic data on a hard drive, however, it is much easier to mess it up. Read more here:

Two realities in particular need to be confronted. Firstly, business today is reluctant to simply throw money at IT. CFOs want to know why, if IT is so smart, it cannot deliver cost-efficient solutions.

The second reality is that successful business is agile business. Speed of response is critical. Information is distributed to the desk-top – and gathered there – to enable a company’s frontline to take action and decisions.

An increasingly mobile workforce, powered by cell phone and laptop, provides competitive advantage while optimising human capital uptime in a growth-economy that is increasingly constrained by skill shortages. 

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ORLANDO – Amid the devastation of Hurricane Wilma last week, IT professionals appraised their disaster recovery and data-protection plans and said their strategies are in flux, regular testing is necessary and funding is still hard to get.

At the Storage Networking World conference last week – attended by more than 2,000 IT professionals – a panel of users said that although disaster recovery and data protection head their lists of IT priorities, funding is often elusive, and many of their strategies are in transition as their storage and application infrastructure changes.

Funding a disaster-recovery scheme is difficult, said Hal Weiss, systems engineer for Baptist Memorial Health Care in Memphis. Read more here: