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DID YOU KNOW?
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- The Underwriting Guide for Insurers by A.M.
Best found that only 6% of midsized
companies that suffer catastrophic data loss survive; 43% never reopen and 51%
close within two years of the disaster.
- Gartner estimates that only 35% of small
and mid-sized businesses have a comprehensive disaster recovery plan in place.
- The Richmond House Group estimates that 20% of SMBs suffer a major disaster every 5 years.
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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.
RenovoData is a leading disaster recovery and real-time remote backup service provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1997, we began as a
professional services firm specializing in high availability storage
solutions for the financial industry. Today we have
expanded to offer reliable and secure remote data backup and disaster recovery solutions for the banking, transportation, healthcare, government and commercial construction industries.
Our mission is to deliver uncompromising backup and business
continuity services while
providing measurable results with an enterprise-class system of hardware and software.
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RenovoData Offers Advanced Data Storage Auditing Solutions with LAN Storage Audit Tool
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Atlanta, Ga--April 14, 2009--RenovoData,
Inc., leader in offsite data backup and IT disaster recovery data storage solutions,
presents the LAN Storage Audit Tool, a service offering that helps companies discover
storage inefficiencies and categorize critical data. This data storage auditing tool gives IT
directors and CIOs of small and medium businesses the ability to accurately
assess the data count across their network and makes them aware of potential
data storage issues at each of their remote business locations. A distinctive feature about the LAN Storage
Audit Tool is that it is "platform agnostic."
The program is compatible with over 30 different operating systems,
which helps organizations who operate in heterogeneous environments.
One of the most difficult issues businesses face is
a shortage of information to comprehensively analyze their network storage before
investing in a data backup management solution.
A significant benefit of the LAN Storage Audit Tool is that it gives IT
managers of complex business environments the ability to take total control of
their data while simultaneously decreasing the overall total cost of ownership
of managing data on their servers. It's
a value-added instrument that continuously helps customers improve their
performance and experience direct savings for their organization... Read More |
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Disk-Based Data Backup and Recovery Tutorial
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In a tough economy, storage administrators looking to
stretch storage budgets are doing so by implementing disk-based backup
technologies like virtual tape libraries and data deduplication. This
disk-based backup and recovery tutorial takes a look at disk-based
backup's evolution over the past few years and offers a roundup of
recent disk backup news and expert advice...Read More
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| Data Deduplication Approaches in Backup Today
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Data deduplication
is the hottest topic for data storage pros in 2009. It's no longer a
bleeding-edge technology, and the cost savings of data reduction is
especially appealing as organizations cope with data growth and
tightening budgets. In response, storage vendors are pumping out more
data deduplication products and approaches to cut down on the size of
data stores... Read More
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| Virtualized Disaster Recovery Hosted by a Remote Backup Company Brings Advantages
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| Before employing a remote backup company to provide offsite data backup services, make
sure they host virtualization technologies for disaster recovery, which brings several
benefits for small and medium businesses (SMBs). Among the advantages of virtualization are
cost savings and flexibility in the installation of a disaster recovery
solution. Put in a more simple way: virtualization can reduce the amount of
hardware required at a disaster recovery site and simplify recovery
operations. Moreover, virtual machines
are independent of the physical hardware they are running on and are completely
autonomous...Read More
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| Develop an Airtight Disaster Recovery Plan with a Remote Backup Company
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Why
is disaster recovery planning important?
Protecting your
organization's data is vital primarily because disasters within a business are
inevitable and unpredictable. It is
never known when an entire system will crash or if an organization will
experience data loss from natural disasters, fire, system or equipment failure,
viruses or human induced causes. Data is
the heart of the business, so safeguarding critical company and customer
information should be a top priority.
Proactive disaster recovery planning is essential for all businesses
that rely on data on a continuous basis and can make or break the future
success of a business... Read MoreBack to Top
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| Meet Sox requirements with Remote Backup Company
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The
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 legislates how long, and the manner in which,
companies store their financial records.
SOX is designed to safeguard against accounting errors and illegal
financial activities. SOX specifically
states that electronic records and messages (email/IM) must be saved for at
least five years to ensure auditors and other regulators can easily obtain requested
documents.
A remote
backup company provides the infrastructure that ascertains compliance with the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and will use data backup software that enables
organizations to address SOX rules without the need for additional equipment or
services such as tape libraries and offsite media storage...Read More
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| Tax Season Brings Phishing and Other Scams
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Two things to remember as you prepare to file your taxes: If you get an
e-mail from the IRS, it's probably a scam. And don't forget the stamp.
As the April 15 tax filing date nears, online tax-related scams tend to
ratchet up, experts say. If you're not careful, you could lose a lot
more than just the refund...Read More
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| The Cost of Data Breaches
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The total cost to a company of recovering
from a single data breach reached $6.6 million in 2008, an increase of
4.5 percent from the $6.3 million cost in 2007, according to a recent
benchmark study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by PGP
Corp. Lost business accounted for nearly 70 percent of a data breach (compared with 65 percent in 2007), averaging $4.6 million.
The study examined costs at 43 organizations in 17 industry sectors.
Breaches included in the survey ranged from fewer than 4,200 records to
more than 113,000...Read More
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| Economic Crisis Heightens Security Risks
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The global economic crisis hitting the financial services sector is
also fueling a growing information security risk. According to the
latest Deloitte Global Security Survey 2008, security attacks that exploit human error and breaches
caused by distracted or disgruntled employees are likely to be the root
cause of information security failures in coming months. The majority
(86%) of respondents to Deloitte's sixth annual Global Security Survey
confirmed that human error is the leading cause of information systems
failure. This recognizes that people are both an organization's
greatest asset as well as its weakest link, and is particularly
relevant in today's economic climate where job insecurity and increased
stress levels may lead employees to behave in unusual ways.....Read More
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VMware Named 2009 CRN Channel Champion
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VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization
solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, announced that the
company was named a 2009 CRN Channel Champion at the XChange Solution
Provider conference in New Orleans. VMware won the overall category of
Server/Application Virtualization as well as the three subcategories of
Support Criteria Winner, Financial Criteria Winner and Technical
Criteria Winner during an awards ceremony at the conference on March
10. The CRN Channel Champions study measures overall solution provider
perceptions of vendor products and services and is considered a premier
resource used by VARs and technology integrators throughout the
industry to evaluate vendors and their programs...Read More
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Women in Technology - WIT
WIT's April Leadership meeting addresses Five Critical Questions: A Development Dialogue with Dr. Beverly Kaye, internationally recognized speaker, author and expert on organizational management
When: April 15 from 7:30am-9:00am
Where: Maggiano's Buckhead
3368 Peachtree Road.
Atlanta, Georgia 30326
Click Here to Learn More
SMEI Atlanta
Value-Based Selling vs. Feature-Based Selling
When: April 10 from 5:30pm-7:30pm
Where: The Ashford Club
5565 Glenridge Connector, Suite 100
Atlanta, Georgia 30342
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Technology Association of Georgia
The CIO: Doing More With Less - Straining the ties that bind IT and Finance
When: April 21 7:30am-9:00am
Where: Villa Christina
4000 Summit Boulevard
Atlanta, Georgia 30319
Click Here to Learn More
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Message from the President
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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.
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.
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