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DID YOU KNOW?
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- 93% of companies that experience significant data loss go out of business within a five year period.
- 100% of disks and tape drives
eventually fail.
- Without adequate backup it takes:
19 days and $17,000 to recreate just 20 MB of lost sales/marketing data;
21 days and $19,000 to recreate just 20 MB of lost accounting data;
42 days and $98,000 to recreate just 20 MB of lost engineering data.
- It has been predicted that the number of people affected by data loss is expected to increase this year. KPMG's Data Loss Barometer stated that the global figure could increase to 190 million in 2009; a 98 million increase of those affected in 2008.
- Annual computer virus damages to U.S. businesses total $55 billion.
- The average company spends between $100,000
and $1,000,000 in total ramifications per year for desktop-oriented disasters
(both hard and soft costs).
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| Greetings!
Thank you for your support of the RenovoData monthly eNewsletter! Here you will find the latest news about our Company, technology and the industry. 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 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 serve 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 an enterprise-class system of hardware and software.
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RenovoData Expands Management Team with the Addition of Robert
Kelleher
ATLANTA, GA--February 5, 2009--RenovoData, Inc. announced
Robert Kelleher has joined the remote backup company's management team as
Senior Storage Architect in the Atlanta headquarters.
Kelleher brings to RenovoData more than 30 years of
experience providing storage, network and systems administration solutions to
constituencies in the Philippines, Costa Rica, Singapore, Ireland, Saudi
Arabia, England, Australia and Japan.
Most recently, he managed storage architect solutions for SilverPop
where he was responsible for overseeing multiple multi-terabyte (TB) databases,
and over 300TB of array space in the Southeastern United States. He has extensive experience in designing
backup to disk systems and developing disaster recovery programs utilizing data
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Industry Trends and Updates
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| Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Trends in 2009
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As the grip of the current economic squeeze tightens,
and companies look to get more done while consuming fewer resources,
disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) technologies provide
more important protection against business interruption or outright
disruption. To that end, various technologies will be brought into play
ever more proactively and decisively. Five DR/BC technology trends in 2009 are:
- Increasing use of virtualization for disaster recovery
- Extending reach of data backup and recovery to mobile users
- Increased use of disk-based solutions
- More dependence on DR/BC services and service providers
- More geographically dispersed distributed/clustered services and applications
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| Hot Storage Technologies for 2009
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Each year, a handful of storage technologies seem poised to
break out of the pack and become essential building blocks for new
products that make storage easier to manage, less costly and better
performing. These are the five technologies projected be hot in 2009:
- SAS-2 spec (6Gb/sec) and 10GbE
- Data replication for DR
- Global dedupe
- Storage-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- Self-healing systems
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| What in the SQL Happened?!...A Few Common SQL Server Backup and Disaster Recovery Mistakes
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Today hasn't been one of your best at the office...your SQL data is corrupt and you have to restore from a tape backup. As if things weren't bad enough, tape backups can take many hours - if not days to HOPEFULLY recover your data! Let's
say that your SQL restored, but it's the version of the last tape
backup! Now your organization has to recreate the lost data that was
not covered from the last full backup. The ripple effects can impact the entire organization. To add insult to injury, the data loss could result in compliance violations and heavy fines. Now
you are trying to figure out how to break this to your manager who
needs critical information housed on the server prior to a client
meeting in an hour...Read More
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| Disaster Recovery Spending In a Global Recession
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Today, we are inundated with news of how the unstable economy is
affecting businesses all over; from the subprime mortgage crisis to a
prolonged global recession. This has placed disaster recovery spending
in the cost category of a mere luxury expense, causing cash and
resources to be diverted away from disaster recovery planning as
organizations focuses on survival. Some businesses may allow their
disaster recovery contracts to remain idle and business continuity
activities to be cancelled or postponed. Although these actions all
save money for the business initially, they do away with cautiously
planned defenses, leaving the potential for vulnerabilities such as
theft, fraud and equipment failure to be heightened by the recession... Read More |
| 2009 Data Loss Inauguration...Make This the Year for Data Backup Services
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As the world stood still and focused on the historical inauguration of
President Obama, there quietly came news of the largest single data
infringement in history. Heartland Payment Systems, which processes
payments for over 250,000 businesses, may have compromised potentially
hundreds of millions of credit and debit card transactions, making it
one of the most significant data breaches ever reported. After calling
the U.S. Secret Service and hiring two breach forensic teams to conduct
an investigation, it was found that malware planted on the company's
payment processing network was the source of the data breach...Read More
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| Agent-Based vs. Agentless Backup Solution...Revealed
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When searching the market for an offsite data backup and
disaster recovery solution, it is easy to become overwhelmed with the multitude
of options and all the technical jargon within the remote backup service
provider industry. One such term is "agentless" backup. Agentless
backup is a backup and restore process that eliminates the need for individual
software installations, or agents, to be installed on target servers requiring
protection. Agent-based solutions are usually more costly because in most
cases the software is proprietary to the service provider and needs to be
installed on every computer in the network to be backed up...Read More
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| RenovoData White Paper Highlights
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| Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
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TCO
analysis is a prerequisite for any ROI study since customers cannot determine
their savings without understanding their costs. Industry-recognized
approaches to analyzing TCO can be separated into the following four
categories: 1) Hardware and Software; 2) IT Operations; 3) Downtime; and 4)
Business Administration. ...Read More and Download TCO White Paper
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| DR Planning for SQL Server
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Ideally,
hard drives and servers would never malfunction, software would never be at
risk of corruption and there would be no harm caused by human error. However, since one or more of these possible
data threats are inevitable, there should be a solid disaster recovery plan in
place in preparation of adverse events.
A disaster recovery plan (DRP) is the set of actions that database
administrators (DBAs) take to handle adverse events that may affect the
availability of their database environments.
Disaster recovery planning is the work devoted to preparing all the
actions that must occur in response to a disaster...Read More and Download SQLWhite Paper
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| Agentless Backup/Recovery Architecture
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The RenovoData agentless architecture improves remote
site backup and recovery processes to reduce costs, bolster security, and simplify
scaling. This white paper contrasts these benefits with the security risks,
high licensing costs, administrative complexity, and CPU/LAN overhead problems associated
with agent-based backup/recovery alternatives...Download Agentless White Paper
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| Banks Not Encrypting Confidential Data
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Two-thirds of financial institutions use unencrypted delivery methods to
send confidential documents to customers, partners and service providers, a
survey claims. The survey of 347 banks, credit unions and mortgage companies
conducted by Wolters Kluwer Financial Services found that one-third use
traditional e-mail to send confidential data...Read More
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| Payment Processor Breach May Be Largest Ever
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A data breach last year at Princeton, N.J., payment processor
Heartland Payment Systems may have compromised tens of millions of credit and debit card transactions. If accurate, such figures may make the Heartland incident one of the largest
data breaches ever reported...Read More
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| A 'Monstrous' Data Breach
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Job-listing website Monster.com has fallen victim to unknown hackers, who obtained unauthorized access to their database
and downloaded account logins, as well as the corresponding personal
information. The website warns that the stolen data could be used to
launch phishing attacks...Read More
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| Monster Data Breach Affects U.S. Government
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The already serious data security problems at Internet job site Monster.com
have become a federal case-literally...Read More
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| Data Breach Led to Multi-Million Dollar ATM Heist
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Atlanta-based RBS WorldPay announced that hackers had broken into its database and made off with personal
and financial data on 1.5 million customers of its payroll cards
business. Some companies use payroll cards in lieu of paychecks by
depositing employee salaries or hourly wages directly into payroll card
accounts, which can then be used as debit cards at ATMs. RBS said that
thieves also might also have accessed Social Security numbers of 1.1
million customers....Read More
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| Data Breaches More Costly Than Ever
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Organizations that experienced a data breach in 2008 paid an
average of $6.6 million last year to rebuild their brand image and retain
customers, according to a new study...Read More
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Asigra Voted Best Vendor Partner for Managed Service Providers
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Asigra Inc., the leader in agentless information recovery management,
today announced that Business Solutions magazine has included the
company on its list of the Best Vendor Partners of 2009. The magazine,
which focuses on growth strategies for the IT channel, awarded Asigra
under the Best Managed Service Provider technology partner category....Read More
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VMWare Customers Continue Expanding Use of Virtualization to Disaster Recovery
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Texas Memory Systems, maker
of the World's Fastest StorageŽ, today announced that it has partnered
with NetApp to certify interoperability between its RamSan-500 solid
state disk and the V-Series storage controller. The RamSan-500 is the
highest performance cached Flash Solid State Disk (SSD) system on the
market. The V-Series is an open storage controller. The combination of
the RamSan-500 and V-Series enables enterprises to greatly improve the
return on investment (ROI) of their storage infrastructure, with
sub-millisecond performance, simplified data management, and better
utilization of their resources....
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Let's Do Business
Network with Local Atlanta Technology Professionals
Hosted by TechLINKS
When: February 9, 2009 from 5:30pm-7:30pm
Where: Manual's Tavern
602 N. Highland Ave., NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30307
Cost: $15
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TAG Breakfast Series: Georgia Technology Authority
Continental Breakfast and Discussion on Outsourcing
When: February 10, 2009 from 7:30am-9:00am
Where: Hodges Room
72 Fifth Street, NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
Cost: $0-$20
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Message from the President
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We wanted to share with you
some exciting changes afoot at RenovoData and how it can benefit you as a
valued customer. With a bright outlook
for the future, strong operating and financial performance, and improved technical
efficiencies, we are aggressively growing our business and enhancing our
competitive edge in the market.
Over the past several
months, we have been building onto our management and technical strengths. We are excited to announce the addition of
key staff that brings over 85 years of combined management and technical expertise. Joining our team are: Steve Bachman, VP of
Business Development, Kevin George, VP of Technical Operations, and Robert
Kelleher, Senior Storage Architect. One
change that you may notice is that we are transitioning our technical support
in house, and as such, RenovoData will now be directly managing all backup
storage and technical support functions for our customers which were previously
administered by Secure Data Solutions, Inc. (SDS). Additionally, as a long-standing partner, Asigra has offered us their complete support during this
transition.
We truly appreciate your
business and want to ensure you are happy with our service. We are pleased to offer our loyal customers a
complimentary one-day storage assessment called LAN Discovery to help you strategically
manage your data growth while improving operational efficiency. This tool works in conjunction with our
backup software, and provides a high level picture of your data trends. We are honored to be your trusted partner in
data protection and are committed to providing you the best service and
support.
We understand that a
challenging economic climate is often a time to evaluate or reassess
technological efficiencies made possible by remote and online backup, data deduplication,
replication, cloud storage, and virtualization.
Call us concerning your backup storage and how we can help you save
money.
If
you have any questions, please contact me directly at 404-846-6044 x1001 via
email at ldo@renovodata.com. As always, if you need technical support you
can reach us at 404-935-6363 (option 3), e-mail support at support@renovodata.com, or visit the website at www.renovodata.com and click live support. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Lynn Do, President
Renovo Data, Inc.
3121 Maple Drive, Suite 200
Atlanta, GA 30305
Ph: 404-935-6363
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