Simple data recovery – Fast data migration

By Natasha | June 30, 2011 @ 2:39 pm

Endpoint Data Continuity Requirement #2 & #3

Simple & Reliable Data Recovery

Simplify Data Recovery

Finding a data backup solution that offers reliable & fast data recovery is an obvious enterprise necessity. When recovering user data, IT should simply be able to select what version of the user data is required for recovery. File versioning allows previous versions of files to be restored

A wizard-driven restore process with an intuitive user interface prevents extended user downtime and ensures data recovery is not a resource-intensive project.

Central management and Full control over data backups

By Natasha | June 21, 2011 @ 11:52 am

Endpoint Data Continuity Requirement #1

Full Control & Central Management

In order to enforce the company’s data backup policy, IT needs to have a complete oversight of the End-User Data Backup environment, and to do that they require the following features:

How Endpoint data backup will simplify your corporate PC replacement

By Natasha | June 20, 2011 @ 9:43 am

Why consider endpoint data backup software to simplify enterprise hardware replacement and your company PC refresh cycle?

Reduce Data Migration Risks

• IT can easily locate and backup critical data stored in non-standard locations on laptops and desktops, reducing the risk of not migrating all business critical data.

• Data can be restored on new hardware in the original location- saving time and avoiding increased IT support requests and interrupted productivity.

• Overcome incompatibilities between operating systems when migrating shortcuts such as My Documents and the user’s Desktop.

• Ensuring that Microsoft Outlook archived email stored on user computers is easily migrated.

The Challenges of an Enterprise PC refresh project

By Natasha | June 17, 2011 @ 10:07 am

Data Migration & Enterprise PC refresh projects

Co-ordinating and managing PC refresh initiatives present the IT department with many challenges.

Read our IT Manager’s Guide to Corporate PC Refresh Projects

EXTENSIVE PLANNING:

The process of assessing the current state of PCs within the organization and identifying areas that need updates is a massive undertaking. Issues such as interoperability, software compliance, application updates, and inventory location must be examined. Asking the right questions and knowing what to look for requires comprehensive planning.

Dude, where’s my data?

By Natasha | June 10, 2011 @ 11:00 am

If you don’t have a centrally managed and automated data backup solution your enterprise will face GRC penalties and the pain of data loss

What, in your opinion, constitutes a massive breach, or loss, of data?
Is it Sony’s recent faux pas where data theft affected over 77 million users, resulting in serious damage to the company’s reputation and possible future loss of revenue as Playstation users threaten to dump the gaming console in droves?
Is it the theft of South African journalist, Max du Preez’s, laptop containing a near-completed manuscript of a new book about Nelson Mandela, or perhaps you recently lost an important file – just one document but important enough to damage your reputation at work, forcing you to spend hours trying to recreate it and/or perhaps, even, costing you a lot more than you bargained for?
Fact of the matter is that EVERY data breach or loss is devastating in some shape of form.
• Fact is: IT has been looking at the problem of endpoint user data protection from the wrong side of the data backup and recovery universe.

The case for endpoint user data protection

By Natasha | June 8, 2011 @ 1:32 pm

In their latest report on endpoint user data backup (ID #: G00211731), Gartner highlights the issue of endpoint user data security as one of the major problems faced by IT today.

One of the key problems being that IT tends to look at user data protection in the traditional sense, meaning from the centre out, instead of from the edge, inward – with the main areas of risk and exposure residing on endpoint user devices such as laptops and desktops.

Issues with this mindset

Corporate data loss grows exponentially each year, which means that data at the edge of the network has never been more exposed. Loss is happening at a higher rate with data intake doubling every 18 months.
The fact of the matter is that today’s legacy (mostly server-focused) solutions struggle to provide an answer to the problem of endpoint data protection because vendors simply attempt to adapt antiquated technology, instead of building the correct solution from the ground up.