How to Backup Corporate Email

By Natasha | September 23, 2011 @ 12:11 pm

Backup Corporate Email: How enterprises can effectively protect corporate email files

Corporate Email backup is a critical consideration for enterprises due to the often irreplaceable and confidential nature of PST files and the implications of losing this data.

Corporate email backup and the effective protection of business PST files is a vital consideration for IT and business owners to ensure corporate governance compliance and manage reputational & legal risks effectively. Emails are undeniably valuable for business and often contain confidential information. The ability to effectively and securely backup and recover business PSTs is an integral feature in an any enterprise PC data backup solution.

Has Data Backup become top of mind for Business owners?

By Natasha | September 20, 2011 @ 11:06 am

Business data backup- no longer just ITs problem

“Enterprise organizations are beginning to become aware of the inadequate protection of important data on corporate laptops and mobile devices. As mobile workers are integral to the success of many businesses and carry data that would be nearly impossible to reconstruct if their corporate device were damaged or stolen.”

- Sheila Childs, Vice President of Research at Gartner on backing up business data

Business owners are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of effective endpoint business data backup While data backup and recovery was once solely an IT pain point and responsibility, effective protection, risk reduction and data loss prevention have become top of mind for CEO’s and shareholders due to a number of impossible to ignore realities:

2011 Endpoint Data Loss Survey

By Natasha | July 8, 2011 @ 10:57 am

Cibecs has launched the 2011 data loss survey to gather opinion from the IT world on endpoint data loss in enterprises.

To participate in our survey and receive the results white paper, free, click here.

The 2010 Data Loss Survey Report placed the spotlight on effective data protection, backup and recovery practices as it stands today.

Hosted by IT news portal, IT Web, and sponsored by data backup and recovery software company, Cibecs, the 2010 Data Loss Survey highlighted the business and operational risk organizations are exposed to in managing user data.

While it is true that most companies had server backup solutions in place, focus was, and still is, shifting to user data stored on desktops and laptops, and the protection thereof. This is where a backup and recovery vacuum exists, and where the 2010 report focused on.

Our 2011 data loss survey again looks at the business data on laptops & desktops, how it’s being protected in enterprises and where the challenges lie for IT.

Automated Backup, Reduced Support, Minimized Bandwidth Cost

By Natasha | July 6, 2011 @ 2:57 pm

Endpoint Data Continuity Requirements: Reduced end user support, Automated Data Backup & Minimized bandwidth costs

#4 Reduced Need for End User Support
With an endpoint data backup solution, data should be recoverable at all times and IT able to rebuild the data from recovery, rather than having to attempt a fix if a problem occurs.

5 Stages of Data Loss Grief

By Natasha | July 5, 2011 @ 2:49 pm

In South Africa, the release of the King III Report in March 2010, as well as the implementation of the new Companies Act last year, means businesses are alert to the consequences of data loss and the importance of taking responsibility for IT governance and data archival.

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:

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.

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.

All taped out? Tape vs Disk

By Natasha | April 19, 2011 @ 9:16 am

Times are changing, can tape keep up?

For many years, tape was considered to be an integral part of any successful data backup and recovery strategy.

Times change however and, while tape still has a role to play as the final cog in the data protection wheel, it is just not practical as a primary backup technology for business users.

Current statistics (highlighted below) do not support the operational effectiveness of tape as the primary backup tool and, to be honest, the costs involved with using the technology as such are simply not favourable.

Cloud NEIN: Why enterprise CIOs do not want their data in the cloud.

By Brandon | April 1, 2011 @ 10:31 am

In a recent study 49% of CIOs and CFOs listed security fears as the primary barrier to adopting a cloud solution.

The arrival of Cloud computing has brought with it new opportunities, many of them offering cost-savings and convenience as an attractive benefit to businesses and enterprises – however, when it comes to the security of company data and the viability of moving user data into the cloud, Enterprise CIOs are not so enthusiastic.

An NTT Europe Online survey of 200 CIOs and CFOs of UK-based companies with 500 or more employees (and a turnover of £100m or more) revealed that:

While the above statistics relate to cloud-based services as a whole, we can assume with great accuracy that the attitude towards cloud-based service solutions that target company data will be similar at the very least, if not substantially more suspect.