Andy Hansen – 3rd Sept ‘09 A COUNCIL has been ordered to tighten up its data security after the theft of a laptop containing personal information of 43,000 schoolchildren. The un-encrypted laptop was taken from Progress House, in Wigan - HQ of the council’s children and young people’s services. It contained names, dates of birth, postcodes and [...]

Failing with online backup Michael Krigsman: “Seeking to back up 350GB in safe, reliable, off-site storage, I tried Carbonite and Mozy, two of the most respected names in the offline backup market. Both products failed miserably to achieve my goals, each one in a perversely different way.” READ FULL STORY AT ZDNET My observations about this article are as [...]

Oxford, May 26, 2009 - A data loss at an RAF (Royal Air Force) base last year was far worse than first revealed after it emerged that sensitive files containing vetting data on RAF personnel was among the information that went missing. Last September three USB sticks were stolen from the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency [...]

For 100GB of data: Cost of a properly run data backup operation, using DLT’s as the backup media Background: There are 2 major tape formats – DLT (Digital Linear Tape) and DDS (Digital Data Storage); DDS can store 20GB of data, and DLT can store 40GB of data. Best practice is that each DLT/DDS is only reliable for read purposes [...]

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