Backup has been a hot topic in the ComputerWorld Blogs since July 31st, prompted by the saga of Joel, who lost the customer's data on July 28th. I sympathize with Joel, because I've lost customer data too—though in my case I had made a backup, but it didn't work. Apart from the probability of losing both your client and your fee, losing someone else's data is guaranteed to make you feel even … [Read more...]

The sheer irony of this story makes it newsworthy. The general manager of Lasso Logic, a company which is developing a Continuous Data Protection product, lost all her data when the company's backup servers were stolen in a break-in over the weekend. She was the only employee who had failed to back up her own data onto the offsite CDP server as well as the local backup server. (Personally, I'm … [Read more...]

It isn’t just small and home office users who have to create their own backup solutions and make their own backups. Many corporate employees do at least part of their work on a company laptop—and 42% of small and mid-sized companies surveyed in the 2004-2005 Imation Data Protection Survey leave it to the employee to back up data kept on that laptop. Only 28% of the companies surveyed have a system … [Read more...]