Tag: data
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Backups and online data
This past weekend has not been a good one for Mweb Business. On Friday, some misconfiguration, glitch or human error caused the loss of many clients’ hosted systems on Mweb’s virtual hosting platform. Clients were greeted with a message stating that their new/clean virtual machines were now up with a new IP address. And no data. That…
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Mobile Security in a nutshell
Mobile security has morphed in the last few years to become a major area of security concern. It’s no longer just laptops that provide on-the-go networked computing – smartphones, tablets, ultra-portables, e-readers and other networked devices now all vie for a space in your electronic arsenal, and they all come with their unique set of…
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Virtualisation part 3: VMware backup scenarios
Backups in a virtualisation environment take on a whole new meaning, typically complex ( as opposed to the simple outlook that the vm vendors would like to portray ) because now you are dealing with shared SAN storage, vm images instead of files, very specific requirements around backup hardware and setup, 3rd party backup agents…
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Intel’s SSD updates and firmware issues
It seems that Intel just can’t get it right when it comes to SSD firmware updates. First they introduced a subsector remap algorithm on the G1 which increased performance but this was shown to cause fragmentation and performance loss over time. This was fixed with a firmware update but a new G2 appeared with more…
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Virtualisation part 2: Storage
The first part of the series focussed on the OS layer of virtualisation. This second part will focus on storage in relation to server virtualisation. Storage on its own, is a minefield of standards, specifications, technologies, protocols and incompatibilities. Add to this the concept of virtualisation and you’re looking at an area that’s difficult to…
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Backups? We don’t need no stinking backups!
Here are 2 stories ( just in this week ) of tragic data loss or nearly … My wife’s aunt phoned last night and indicated her daughter’s MacBook had been stolen while at a client. Simple: call the insurance, claim for a new laptop and restore your data. Not so fast. No backups … Considering…
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Local insurance company loses client data
So it’s not just the Americans who are poor at client data security – the South Africans have got into the act as well. Local insurance firm Zurich SA said it had lost a tape containing client information. Apparently the backup tape was lost during a routing tape transfer to a data storage centre in…
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Data loss for Sidekick users Part 3
Internetnews.com mentioned on the 16th October that the bulk of the data had been recovered: “Microsoft today reports it recovered the majority of lost customer data for Sidekick owners amid a flurry of lawsuits filed yesterday over the recent server failure caused a service outage and data loss.” This is not quite the truth: no…
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Data loss for Sidekick users Part 2
So yesterday Microsoft/Danger indicated that they had managed to get back most of the users’ data that was ‘lost’ as part of a problem with their core database earlier this week. Unfortunately not many of their customers are amused and have started a host of legal challenges regarding the system failure. Most of this revolves…
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Data loss for Sidekick users
It appears that Sidekick users in the USA, who stored their data/backups on-line though the Microsoft/Danger on-line cloud service, have lost access to all their data after a server failure: “Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device—such as contacts, calendar…
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Backups, backups and more backups
Why is it that when it comes to backup, most people just draw a blank? Although it can be a complex topic, surely it’s not useful to stick your head in the sand. But that seems to be the trend – until something happens and data is lost. Consider that you are responsible for your…