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RenovoData Takes Leader Role in TechLINKS
ATLANTA,
GA (1/6/09)- TechLINKS announced that RenovoData has upgraded their
Provider status in TechLINKS Exchange from Gold To Platinum in 2009 in
the Data Services category. RenovoData will be one of the highest
ranked companies in the Data Services category and their listing will
surpass all Silver or Basic listings in the TechLINKS print publication
and in TechLINKS Exchange online. RenovoData is a veteran TechLINKS
Provider and has remained heavily involved as their business has
continued to expand. TechLINKS Exchange links IT Buyers with solution
Providers for their technology needs and is seen by thousands of buyers
in the regional IT industry both online and in the TechLINKS Magazine.
"We at RenovoData look forward to being part of TechLINKS Exchange
as a vehicle to expand our presence and join the network of other
distinguished business leaders within the local technology
community," says Lynn Do, President and CEO of Renovo Data. "As a
Platinum provider, we will maximize our opportunities to keep abreast
of current events and astounding developments, stay involved with
pertinent community programs and share knowledge and ideas with other
industry professionals." Read more Back to Top
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The State of Data Backup in 2009: Part 1
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Data backup has changed a lot over the past few years. In the old days,
backups consisted of a backup server, backup software and tapes. That
was simple but often slow and unreliable. Today's backups have improved
the process by introducing more choices, but in the process more
complexity has been added as well.
The biggest change in backup over the past few years was the
introduction of disk as a medium that rivals -- and in many cases
surpasses -- tape. But backup choices are more complex than choosing
disk, tape, or a mixture of both. Disk itself takes multiple forms for
backup, including virtual tape and various types of disk-as-disk
targets. Software tools have been updated to reduce data through
deduplication and compression, and provide more granular recovery
points and multi-site replication. Read more
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The State of Data Backup in 2009: Part 2
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New features have been developed for software applications in recent
years to take better advantage of disk-based backups. As a result,
backup administrators find greater efficiencies in their backup
applications but also must make more decisions in the buying process.
"Absolutely, backup offers more choices than ever before," said W.
Curtis Preston, VP of data protection services for GlassHouse
Technologies Inc. "If you go back just seven or eight years, it was
basically, which vendor's backup software and tape drive do I buy? Now
it's, do I encrypt it or not encrypt my tape drive? Do I do disk and
tape, or disk to disk? What about data deduplication? CDP or near-CDP?
Full backup or synthetic?" Read more
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The State of Data Backup in 2009: Part 3 |
Smaller shops on the Gulf Coast increasingly see the cloud as a cost effective way to recover from hurricanes or other disasters while remaining compliant.
Mario Valverde, chief of the Systems Integration Branch of the National Weather Service's Southern Region, said his office had been using tape backup with offsite vaults across town in Fort Worth, TX, for disaster recovery. But after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Valverde decided to move data farther offsite and make it "universally restorable," he said. "We wanted to be able to leave the area and still access our data -- and occasionally, tapes do go bad." Read moreBack to Top |
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The State of Data Backup in 2009: Part 4
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Storage administrators at the largest companies have learned that
without better management of the entire backup process, it will be
impossible to tame their data growth regardless of what data reduction
or protection tools they use. Read more
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5 Top Storage Trends for 2009
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If only one kind of IT expense bucks the recessionary trend for 2009,
it will be storage. In a recent Gartner storage user survey, 41% of
respondents plan to spend more on storage services in 2009 than they
did in 2008, while only 7% expect to spend less. Given the current
slump in the global economic climate, the themes of efficiency and
cost-savings will continue to drive data protection technology
decisions for the upcoming year. As organizations continue to operate
leaner, it will be simple to justify expenses that cut back on backup
storage capacity, shift backup costs from a capital to an operating
budget, or do away with the need for remote office IT personnel. Read more
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Top Security Stories of 2008
A spike in data breaches, the threat of malicious hardware, and
alarming revelations about the Internet's vulnerabilities from security
experts such as Dan Kaminsky all made headlines in 2008. Read more
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Backup Solution Gone Wrong
JournalSpace, which has been around for almost six years now as a
prominent blogger website, is done. Due to a catastrophic data loss,
either due to software error or malicious intent, the website managers
have lost the entire contents of the blogs stored upon it. Alexa places
JournalSpace at a rank
of about 100,000 among websites, and with nearly 14,000 viewers per
month, JournalSpace was a relatively high-traffic website. The data
loss is impossible to correct and JournalSpace is effectively
destroyed.
On a technical side, what occurred is still
unclear. JournalSpace maintains their server on what is known as a RAID1
configuration, where everything written to one hard drive is 'mirrored'
to the other drive in a duplicate image. So if the main storage
unit breaks down, all the data is stored on another duplicate and it's
an easy enough job for an individual to simply switch over to the
working drive. Most any computer can be configured for RAID1 with a
minimum of effort. Read more
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Top 10 Predictions for Virtualization in 2009
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As the woes of the world economy extend into 2009, governments and
businesses will be increasingly forced to do more with less. Moving
into 2009, organizations that have started their virtualization
journeys with server consolidation projects will extend its use to the
desktop, storage and networking areas, as well as to provide more
flexible and economical approaches to business continuity, security,
and application service level agreements. For
virtualization's money-saving capabilities as well as its
transformative affect on the industry, we have another exciting year
ahead. Here are the 10 top trends in virtualization that I believe are
worth watching for in 2009...Read more
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We at RenovoData look forward to being your disaster recovery and backup experts. We will maximize our goal to keep you informed on current industry news, trends and developments. Please take full advantage of using us as a resource and vehicle to expand your industry knowledge. Your data security is our business.
RenovoData, Inc. is one of the leading disaster recovery and real-time remote back up service providers in the United States. In 1997, we began as a professional services firm specializing in high availability storage solutions for the financial industry. Today, our services have expanded to help a variety of clients in industries including banking, transportation, healthcare, government and commercial construction. Our mission is to deliver uncompromising back up and business continuity services to your company, no matter the size, while providing measurable results with a high availability system. Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Lynn Do
President
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