On 22 September 2016Yahoo! released a statementand the full extent of the2014 Yahoo! data breach was revealed. With at least 500 million Yahoo! accoun…
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Gartnerhas predicteda compound annual growth rate of 36.4% incloud storage(from 2011 to 2016). Storage remains one of the top 10 growing subsegments i…
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BYODis on the rise. We know this. You need a Bring Your Own Device Policy to make sure your employees don’t destroy your network. We know this too. …
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Data Managementis a bit of a vague and awkward term. Data management andbig dataare entangled, you cannot mention the one without considering the othe…
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It used to be expensive to keep backups but we use low-cost disk now. So low, in fact, that the world is able to store as much as2.5 quintillion bytes…
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Microsoft buys LinkedIn for over 26 billion dollars (US). Let’s pause for a moment and ponder what that means… it’s a lot to take in. With the m…
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Internationally, every day,2.5 quintillion bytes of datais produced. It’s hard to wrap the brain around that idea, right? And how about this: 90% of…
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It’s easy to get confused by all the technical jargon when choosing acloud storage service provider. And when the world is moving towards cloud back…
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Crash testing has gone virtual. We’re talking about cars. We all know and value the results from tests performed by NCAP (the New Car Assessment Progr…
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When it comes todisaster recovery, how does one avoid becoming a statistic? By staying informed about the statistics of course. But the problem is tha…
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Data loss– the dreaded. Give me anything but data loss. We’ve just had a power failure and I forgot to click Save. Sure, I lost only 15 minutes bu…
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Countries like Nigeria are changing the face of African colocation data centre services. It recently produced a state-of-the-art facility in Lagos, un…
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