The UK’s financial sector will no doubt be checking business continuity plans in the light of reports that security breaches were up 12 times last year on the previous 12 months.
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May 2 is World Password Day – traditionally the day you are supposed to change your passwords.
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More than half of UK firms are suffering cyber-attacks and most admit they are under-prepared for data breaches, according to a report by global insurers Hiscox.
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World Backup Day on March 31 brings into sharp focus the importance of regularly backing up data, but what other aspects of data management should an organisation be addressing?
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Organisations are enlisting the help of data management providers to help them protect and exploit their data. But how do you know which provider is right for you?
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A well known threat to all organisations, ransomware is still on the rise. Cyber-criminals are even working out how to beat your ransomware protection solutions.
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With growing threats to data and the rising use of cloud platforms such as Office365, organisations now have a need to protect their cloud platforms with additional backup.
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The Marriott hotel group has announced that it has fallen victim to one of the largest data breaches in history as data was stolen over the course of 4 years.
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Secondary data storage does not have the same requirement as primary storage to be accessed quickly, however, depending on its uses this could become a feature. Learn more about secondary storage and how it can benefit your organisation.
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In an age where data is exploding in size, primary storage is a premium and there are threats from every angle, it is important to manage data more effectively. For a network manager, it can become a time-consuming task simply deciding which data to keep and what to remove. So how do you understand what’s on your network and how best to manage it?
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Data archiving is used to reduce primary storage consumption and the costs related to it. Data that is no longer in use but not yet obsolete can be moved off primary storage space. As an alternative, cloud-based archiving achieves both goals because of cloud storage being so cost effective.
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Data archiving is defined as the process of identifying and moving inactive data out of live systems and into long-term archival storage systems. In this article, we explore the pros and cons of using cloud or tape archiving in freeing up expensive primary storage space in your organisation.
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