Technology: tape-based backup of data seen unreliable.Seventy-five percent of respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. in a recently concluded survey of information technology (IT) executives indicated that their companies suffered unrecoverable loss of corporate data they thought was successfully backed up to tape due to unreadable, lost or stolen media. The online survey, commissioned by Asigra[TM], a specialist in "agentless" multisite backup and recovery software for network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. , sought to better understand how IT staffs safeguard information throughout the enterprise, including remote offices, and how the backup and recovery process ROBOs (remote office/branch office) could be improved. Among the survey findings: * 63 percent of respondents said they encountered unreadable tapes when they tried to retrieve data, with 76 percent of those cases reporting a direct impact to their business from loss of productivity to punishments for regulatory reg·u·late tr.v. reg·u·lat·ed, reg·u·lat·ing, reg·u·lates 1. To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law. 2. compliance infractions. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * 61 percent said they back up remote offices to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster, while 17 percent indicated that there are no formal backup procedures in place at their remote offices. * 20 percent said their business has experienced data loss due to lost or stolen tape media. * Data recovery-focused features that respondents found valuable in ensuring a secure and smoother backup/recovery process included keeping the latest backup version locally on disk (93 percent) and encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. for data while "in-flight in-flight adj. 1. Occurring, carried out, or present while in flight: in-flight refueling. 2. Provided or offered during a flight: in-flight meals. " and "at-rest" (85 percent). "The results of this survey seem to indicate that there is still a severe problem with lost corporate data at remote sites resulting from issues regarding the reliability and security of traditional tape-based backup systems Noun 1. backup system - a computer system for making backups ADP system, ADPS, automatic data processing system, computer system, computing system - a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage at remote sites," says W. Curtis Preston Preston, city (1991 pop. 166,675) and district, Lancashire, N England, on the Ribble River. Preston has an active port and is a center of cotton and rayon manufacturing. , vice president of Data Protection at GlassHouse Technologies Inc. "Remote sites are much better served with a disk-based data protection system that can provide local fast recovery, while automatically replicating backups to a central site for disaster recovery." |
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