Backup and Recovery
Welcome to the Backup and Recovery Resource Center This center has been developed to provide you on time information at your fingertips - when you need it. We encourage you to join the Backup and Recovery Discussions located on the right side of this resource center. Also, see what the industry is saying in the Analyst Corner section. Keep up-to-date with your Backup and Recovery Resource Center. Caringo uses USB to build secure CAS storage appliance A start-up with a new approach to content-addressable storage is looking to take on EMC and other vendors with a low-cost USB memory stick and some software. Read on... EVault Announces ‘Data Turkey’ Award Winners for Most Spectacular Data Recovery and Most Disastrous Data Loss Stories EVault, Inc., the experts in online backup and recovery, today announced winners of its first annual Data Turkey Awards to honor business professionals who have lived through a data loss, or whose actions and quick thinking have helped to avert a data disaster. Read on... Ontrack Data Recovery Signs Licensing Agreement With Leading Resellers for Its PowerControls(TM) Software Ontrack Data Recovery(TM), the industry's leading data recovery provider, today announced Programmer's Paradise and Revinetix, both leading resellers, will be offering Ontrack® PowerControls(TM) Mailbox Recovery Software to their roster of professional and small business customers, thus giving them an easy, time-saving solution for their Exchange Server mailbox recovery needs. PowerControls, an industry-leading mailbox recovery software tool that restores individual mailboxes, messages, folders, attachments and other elements from existing backup Microsoft Exchange Server database (.EDB) files, eliminates the need for brick-level backups. Read on... Overcoming Recovery Barriers You can’t gamble when it comes to protecting corporate data. Security measures have been implemented to protect against intruders and to perform regular backups to let you recover from system failures, virus attacks, or natural disasters. But if you’re relying solely on tape backup for disaster recovery, no doubt you’ve already wondered if you really have the means to get your systems and data back on line before a disaster inflicts serious damage to your business viability. Can you really afford to take disaster recovery risks with your corporate data? Read on... Safeguarding Corporate Data Is your corporate data really safe? Before you answer this question, you must first ask "Safe from what?" Database security is often confused with data secrecy. To fully evaluate whether your database is secure, the definition of database security must include secrecy, integrity and availability. There are three essential aspects to data security; secrecy, integrity and availability. Therefore, to answer the simple question, "Is you data safe?" you need to look at each aspect separately. Different sites have different requirements for secrecy, integrity and availability. Therefore, it is impossible to solve all "security" issues with a single solution. The security solution must match the unique privacy, integrity and availability requirements of each site. Read on... What's New: The Blue Laser Special Do you know the difference between blue and red laser optical storage technology? 120mm red laser optical is today the most widely used digital storage medium in the world. A report from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has estimated that, with proper care and handling, DVD optical media should last 30 years. However, blue laser technology appears ready to supersede red laser (no political significance intended!) 120mm blue laser optical uses a non-abrasive read/write process. It can be safely read tens of thousands of times without degrading the media surface. In addition, new hard coating techniques provide added protection from dust, fingerprints, and scratches, making bare media a viable, economical option for many applications. Read more here.	News and information · The 7 Deadly Sins of Backup and Recovery · Unitrends Backup & Recovery Solutions and Disaster Recovery Best Practices · How SMBs Can Benefit From Hybrid Cloud-Based Backup and Business Continuity · Success Story: 360 Federal Credit Union · Dickinson Wright PLLC Backup/Recovery Discussions A member asks for your help and experience in recovering data from a damaged or broken source. Backup/Recovery Jobs · Enterprise Backup Administrator · Enterprise Backup Administrator · IT Infrastructure Manager · System Administrator III - MS Windows Domain Administrator · Systems Administrator · Desktop Support and Server Administrator · Senior Systems Administrator · Senior Database Administrator Useful Links Self-* Storage Systems is a research project funded by the National Science Foundation. This web site offers a suite of cutting edge research and papers on storage and recovery. Recovery Oriented Computing (ROC): Motivation, Definition, Techniques, and Case Studies This academic research paper looks at an alternative to Recovery Oriented Computing (ROC). By concentrating on Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) rather than Mean Time to Failure (MTTF), ROC reduces time to recover from these facts and thus offer higher availability. FREE online book on backup and recovery: Content Manager Backup/Recovery and High Availability: Strategies, Options, and Procedures