I'm only just beginning to research this, but here is the concern being brought to me:<BR><BR>A small business feels the need to take weekly backups off site and deliver them to a safe deposit box.

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

The recent well-publicized backup tape losses at the likes of Bank of America and Ameritrade appear to be pushing some companies to consider alternative storage technologies such as virtual tape and ...

Currently, we do not encrypt our backup tapes. I want to start encrypting them because they are moved offsite on a daily basis. At first, I didn't think this was a big deal because I figured that ...

Backup tapes have been used for decades in the corporate environment for business continuity or disaster recovery. Individual tapes typically contained a snapshot of the company’s documents and ...

Last week, Time Warner announced that the personal records of 600,000 present and former employees were misplaced on March 22 when the back-up tapes that contained the information were being shipped ...

As the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun. Everything people see now has been here before, and the cycle continues. This adage also applies to technology. What people see now as novel ...