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New to Backup? Tie up with the Veterans
by Saaher Muzafer, CSO at SecurStoreIt makes no sense to reinvent the wheel every time you want to assemble a cart. If you are planning to start an online backup business, you can learn from those who have already walked the walk and talked the talk. Tie up with the veterans and grow your business taking advantage of all the knowledge that has been acquired, tested and validated by Veterans like Asigra. (more…)
Partnering Advantages
by Eirikur Thor Eiriksson, CEO at SecurStoreEven the simplest project can fail if “support” is the lack that end users experience. Transferring your mission-critical data to a third party service provider over the Internet is by no means an un-ambitious endeavor. Lack of adequate support can be crippling.
You should look at your service provider as a partner who is bringing a specific skill set to your business. Tour service provider’s skills should leave you free to develop the skill sets you possess. If you can truly say that your service provider does that, you have gained much in the partnership. If not, you should look around for a partner who gives you that freedom!(more…)
Archiving Logic
by Jon Ingi Thordarson, CTO at SecurStoreData generated by your firm exists in the electronic dimension. As the data ages, it reduces in value, ceases to be actively accessed and becomes ripe for archiving. Archived data is data that needs to be retained in the data repository for historical or legal reasons and not for operational reasons.
The purpose of archiving data is to reduce overheads. Overheads are associated unnecessary access to large volumes of closed/least value transactional data that add no value to the current operations of your firm. Identification and archiving of such data helps the firm leverage the electronic dimension efficiently.(more…)
Anchoring Mobile Data
by Alexander Eiriksson, COO at SecurStoreData is becoming increasingly unanchored and unstructured. Data consolidation and definition assume nightmarish proportions, as data is proliferated across desktops, laptops, smart phones and a host of other hand held devices. Yet, this data must be consolidated, defined and made available to those who need the information for decision making purposes. In the past, data consolidation either never happened or happened so infrequently, that decision makers were forced to guess at trends and draw conclusions on the basis of available data. The picture can be different today. (more…)
Dealing with the Mobile Devices of a Mobile World
by Saaher Muzafer, CSO at SecurStoreIt is not just a statistic! 70% of your enterprise data is being generated in various mobile settings from laptops to smart phones! Your staff may be out there tending to your patients or digging up roads, repairing malfunctioning equipment or selling your products. While this may present a number of competitive advantages to you, you should realize that these men and women may not even be IT savvy individuals and are definitely not security experts. Yet, your enterprise is leaving the security of the data being generated in their hands! Do you not think you need to deal with mobile devices of this mobile world? Does the situation not warrant some kind of decisive action on your part? (more…)
Lean Mean Data Centres of the Morrow: Taking a Holistic View
by Eirikur Thor Eiriksson, CEO at SecurStoreStorage virtualization is becoming ubiquitous. Everyone is buying in to the concept and it is poised for expansion. CIOs, taking a holistic view of virtualization, are intent on transforming their data centres, repositioning storage as the core of their cloud strategy, and realizing the full benefits of the technology they are embracing. Issues of efficiency, reliability, performance, management and data growth are seen to be issues that will be resolved as they cross the traditional data storage thresholds and transform their data centres into lean, mean processing centres in the cloud. It further, becomes a viable solution in a world that has suddenly become borderless, unanchored and mobility of business can only be matched by mobility of data. (more…)
What is UK’s ICO Data Protection Act?
by Jon Ingi Thordarson, CTO at SecurStoreThe UK Data Protection Act is implemented by the information Commissioners Office (ICO) in UK to regulate the use of personal data that is made available to commercial and non commercial organizations by individuals for a variety of purposes. The ICO is an independent authority set up to uphold information rights in safeguarding individual privacy and to promote transparency in data use by public bodies.(more…)
Laptop Backups that Never Happened
by Alexander Eiriksson, COO at SecurStoreThere are hundreds of advertisements out there about lost or misplaced laptops. Most of these pleas sound desperate. They have lost years of research or hundreds of GBs of vital data that can never be retrieved or replaced. If you have never been in such a situation, you can appreciate the horror of losing all your data when you least expect it! One can never be too careful. Regrets and tears could have been saved if the person had just made the effort to backup all the data from the laptop on to a removable media stored securely elsewhere or simply backed up data to a cloud based online backup server over the Internet.(more…)
Solar Storms — Disaster Warnings
by Eirikur Thor Eiriksson, CEO at SecurStoreScientists have been predicting geomagnetic storms for some time now. They estimate that the adverse impact of the incipient solar storm will be around $2 trillion. Blasts of electrically charge gas traveling at five million miles an hour is expected to disrupt technology infrastructure and communication networks in the next few months.(more…)
Business Wind up or Closure—What Happens to Digital Assets
by Saaher Muzafer, CSO at SecurStoreData Protection Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the HIPAA and other extant legislations lay down a number of mandates with regard to data protection; sharing and use. Very little is said about what you need to do if your enterprise is merged with another or you decide to close your business. But, you are expected to use your common sense and ensure that your acts do not compromise the safety and security of sensitive information that your enterprise may possess.(more…)
Are You Being Held Hostage to Complexity?
by Jon Ingi Thordarson, CTO at SecurStoreDid you know that complexity is the most often cited reason for absence of structured data stores and disaster recovery plans? Resource constraints follow as a close second. But, complexity should not be allowed to hold you hostage in an era where structured, methodical, building block approaches to data processing and storage is becoming the order of the day. Small and medium businesses have access to a rich range of technologies for data asset management and can integrate backup, system imaging, replication and a host of other data processing features to create user friendly backup, storage and recovery systems for their organization.(more…)
Source Versus Target De-duplication
by Eirikur Thor Eiriksson, CEO at SecurStore
If you want to achieve data storage efficiencies for your organization, you must spend some time deciding on the kind of de-duplication you would like to perform on the data. You can de-duplicate data before you send it to the storage or you can de-duplicate the data after it has reached its destination drive.(more…)
Asigra – Partner Joys
by Alexander Eiriksson, COO at SecurStoreAsigra’s resellers are not referred as “resellers”; rather Asigra calls them as partners. Asigra recognizes that the current business environment demands channel partnerships that support and expand the reach of the company. Asigra offers its partners the opportunity to become responsive to customer needs. Asigra believes in helping its partners move managed services to the market with extensive advice, tools and partner communities, along with an ability to sell across all platforms.(more…)
Empowering Managed Service Providers Deliver
by Saaher Muzafer, CSO at SecurStoreAsigra was first introduced to the market in 1986 as an efficient, cost effective and transformational cloud backup solution that had the capacity to align value of data to the cost of protecting it. In 2010, it was profiled in the Gartner magic quadrant on Enterprise Disk based backup.
New and existing service providers, who target IT constrained organizations with data protection in mind, can offer secure, reliable and predictable data protection services with Asigra backup and recovery software as their backbone offering. The software helps transform business data management and protection by delivering backup and recovery solutions that seamless manage, scale and deliver state of art services to customers down the line.(more…)
Securing Laptop Data
by Jon Ingi Thordarson, CTO at SecurStoreMobile devices, especially laptops are vulnerable. They can be lost, stolen or damaged with ease. Securing laptop data is, therefore, an overriding concern for enterprises that have a large mobile workforce that generates huge amounts of data on their laptops. Following a few simple procedures and rules will ensure that data on the laptop is never lost or compromised.(more…)
