It took GE Money two months to reconstruct the missing tape and identify the people whose information was lost. Since December, the company has been notifying consumers in batches of several thousand and telling them to phone a call center set up to deal with the breach. The notification is expected to be completed next […]

From the Associated Press The loss or theft of personal data such as credit-card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn’t expected to turn around soon as hackers stay a step ahead of security and laptops disappear with sensitive information. And while companies, government agencies, schools and other […]

Analysts see solid-state drives, online storage gaining steam. December 24, 2007 (Computerworld) — IT managers looking to boost storage efficiency next year will embrace online storage services, push de-duplication in the data center and adopt solid-state disk drives to help fuel hardware consolidation strategies and green initiatives, according to IDC’s top 10 storage predictions for […]

The Tucson Police Department’s Web site, crippled nearly 2 weeks ago by a hacker, is expected to be back up and working within 48-hours, said the department’s webmaster. The hacker, who goes by the handle “Hmei7,” cracked through the City’s firewall and the Police Department’s firewall to get into the Web site, said Pat Johnson, […]

Here’s an informative white paper from LexisNexis to assist law firms with disaster planning. 

Storage features for server virtualization environments got a boost this week with the general availability of VMware’s Infrastructure 3.5. VMware rival Virtual Iron Software brought out version 4.2 of its virtual machine, which includes the ability to dynamically increase disk groups and virtual disks for storage on demand, multipathing features for high availability and disaster […]

According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced its 16th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in the third quarter of 2007 with revenues of $2.8 billion, a 9.8% increase over the same quarter one year ago. EMC was tops in market share with 27.6%. Symantec followed with a 16.6% […]

Remote Backup Systems Inc. (RBS), the originator of remote online backup technology, today announced that its award-winning RBackup® remote backup software is now fully compatible with VMware Server, opening up the virtual world of VMware to the safety and cost benefits of RBS’ remote online backup protection. 

Normally I agree with David Friend of Carbonite, cofounder of my favorite of those $5/month online backup services with very few features and capabilities to meet its price. There’s a growing need for services like that – but not in the Business market.

In researching offsite data backup and recovery services, I’ve read a number of horror stories about business owners that subscribed to (and paid for) an online backup service for many months, only to find that they could not actually recover their information when they needed to. Why would this happen?