Data Protection News & Articles

Virtualization has gone mainstream and so have the problems it brings. In a survey conducted by Veeam, a data management and protection firm, 500 organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and France were surveyed. The report, based on survey responses, reveals how managers really feel about the impact of virtualization on data protection strategies.

Speaking of hacking, a new survey released by Symantec reported that almost two-thirds of all Internet users have been the victim of some sort of cybercrime.

Following IBM’s release of new tax compliance software, Autonomy has licensed its IDOL technology to the IRS to keep track of companies’ tax liabilities. While it might be difficult to secure Federal IT contracts now, it could be about to get a lot harder.

A new survey tells us the value of your company's secrets. In other news, iPads are slowly coming to healthcare IT.

Despite persistent global economic difficulties, a recent survey from technology consultancy IDC (news, site) shows that the world-wide storage software market continues to hold its own with 6.3% growth between Q3 and Q4 last year.

However, while the combined market for all top vendors increased by 0.5% in Q4 last year compared with Q4 in 2008, the overall picture is gloomier with a total contraction of the market year-on-year of 4.7%.

Mimosa isn’t just your typical Sunday brunch affair anymore. Now it can also archive your email.

Mimosa Systems, a provider of information management and content archiving solutions, recently announced an addition of a new solution — email archiving — to its NearPoint product.

Varonis has launched a new version of its DatAdvantage solution, which extends its data governance capabilities to unstructured data in UNIX environments. DatAdvantage 3.5 provides visibility to and enables auditing for data held in UNIX repositories, ensuring that such data is accessible for appropriate business activities only.

The move marks a significant evolution of the DatAdvantage product, which hitherto could only be applied to Windows environments. Users can now manage unstructured data from both environments from a single interface. The technology provides visibility for any UNIX file server, gathers user data from NIS, LDAP and local machine accounts, and grabs event data from Network Appliance filers and Sun Solaris v8, v9, and v10 file servers.

Fremont-based Mendocino Software announces support for VMware ESX Server, Version 3 and above for its InfiniView offering.

InfiniView is a major enterprise-class continuous data protection solution.