No organization expects to have a breach; in fact, most organizations have gone to great lengths and spent tremendous amounts of money to prevent them from happening. However, a strategy is needed to minimize the cost and reputational damage associated with a data breach when proper prevention techniques fail.

Starting to grow weary of hearing the term “The Cloud”? What is it exactly, and what does it mean for you and your business? Ask Google the question, "What is cloud computing?" and you will get more than 3.5 million answers. Here’s a small sample of what you’ll find. Cloud computing is...

You know very well how critical your data is to your organization and how much your business would be impacted were that data to become unavailable because of a major IT outage.  Organizations typically rely on traditional tape backup to guard against this eventuality. More comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) solutions that automatically maintain up-to-date copies of data at a remote location are desirable, but are often unaffordable for two reasons: either the solutions require very expensive equipment on both ends, or they require modifications to every host. The former is beyond the scope of the small to medium size enterprise, the latter is host-invasive, complex and difficult to manage.

Over the last couple of years the expansion of broadband Internet services, the declining cost of disk storage hardware, and the more effective use of software capabilities have breathed new life into this on-again-off-again segment of the storage market. There is no reason to think that these trends won’t continue.