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Remote Backup and Disaster Recovery eNewsletter
June 2009
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     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.
Industry Tips and Trends

5 Steps to HITECH Preparedness

CSOs in healthcare organizations know that the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, signed into law in February 2009, includes new privacy requirements that experts have called "the biggest change to the health care privacy and security environment since the original HIPAA privacy rule." These include:

  • New requirements that widen the definition of what Personal Health Information (PHI) information must be protected and extend accountability from healthcare providers to their business associates;
  • Lower thresholds, shorter timelines, and stronger methods for data breach victim notification;
  • Effective immediately, increased and sometimes mandatory penalties with fines ranging from $25,000 to as much as $1.5 million;
  • More aggressive enforcement including authority to pursue criminal cases against HIPAA-covered entities or their business associates...Read More


Avoid "Orphaned Data"

Employees are the lifeblood of any business, and the data they produce is critical to productivity. Unfortunately, during recent uncertain economic times, businesses of all sizes across America have laid off hundreds of thousands of employees. Yet when any employees leave during turnover, important data can be lost or forgotten. Such "orphaned data" can consist of any business information, application or intellectual property that has become unrecoverable because it was left on no-longer-accessible edge devices like laptops that were never backed up, or was simply never transferred to a backup-accessible server...Read More

RenovoData Articles

Airing Out the Data Security Risks of Cloud Storage

Cloud computing has gained popularity over the past two years.  The concept incorporates software as a service (SaaS) as well as other technology trends that have the common theme of reliance on the Internet for satisfying the data storage needs of the user.  However, cloud storage providers such as Carbonite, Amazon S3 and Google App Engine have recently been troubled with recurrent shutdowns and losses of customer data.  The problems experienced by these companies have made some question as to whether cloud storage poses a data security risk, specifically due to users depending on unseen infrastructures holding massive data vaults that can attract the interest of hackers and electronic terrorists....Read More


Hurricane Season Poses Data Loss Threats

Remote backup makes a lot of sense:  allowing a reliable offsite data backup company to keep your data safe and secure gives you peace of mind. However, while there is a multitude of individual online backup service providers on the market today that are focused on the consumer, there are not as many designated for enterprises and small to mid-sized businesses.  Data is the most important business operational asset, so selecting the right data backup company is critical and it is essential for you to ensure that you make the best and most informed decision for your business when choosing a remote backup service provider.  While there is no litmus test for choosing the right provider, consider the following questions...Read More

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Remote Backup: Comprehensive Solution for Hurricane Season

Hurricane season is here.  As the Department of Homeland Security prepares a status report around disaster recovery preparedness in the wake of a natural catastrophe such as a hurricane, backing up data is an urgent mission for all companies - especially small to medium-sized businesses.  In addition to advanced online backup, a remote backup company provides data storage, data protection and disaster recovery solutions...Read More

Green IT for Disaster Recovery: Part 1

As energy climbs the list of corporate priorities, the call for "green IT" disaster recovery services and solutions is proliferating.  Rising energy costs and consumption in datacenters are hot topics; whether the concern is saving money, deploying new IT services, keeping the datacenter running or sparing the environment.  Services and features such as server virtualization and data deduplication provided by a qualified offsite data backup company offer economic and ecological solutions that reduce energy costs from the desktop to the datacenter by streamlining a business' IT infrastructure.  This article is Part 1 of 2 which will discuss ways in which server virtualization serves as a green IT disaster recovery solution...Read More
Data Security Topics

Encryption #1 Concern for Mobile Storage Users

These days, a big portion of small to midsized enterprise business is done outside the physical enterprise because of the ever-growing mobile workforce. This growth is causing SMEs to consider different strategies and tips that can help them improve their business on the road. With the proliferation of mobile storage devices being used by employees today, SMEs need to look at the bottom line, while at the same time providing better tools and resources to their users.
  • Safe & Secure
Robert Pearce, senior technical marketing specialist at Corsair (www.corsair.com), says it's important to always carry a backup with you. ...Read More
Top Tips: Keeping Databases Safe and Secure

As data collection becomes increasingly complex, sophisticated and essential for marketers, protecting the security of those databases is more important than ever. We asked several top experts to offer their best tips for how marketers can make sure their data stays safe....Read More
Partner Focus

NetApp Recognized by CIO Magazine
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IDG's CIO magazine announced NetApp as a recipient of the 2009 CIO 100 award. The 22nd annual award program recognized organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology (IT)...Read More

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Upcoming Events

Webcast: Data Privacy in Production
This webinar will introduce an emerging technology and methodology for addressing data security strategies around the actual production database.

When:  Jun 25, 2009 from 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
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When:  Jul 01, 2009 from 07:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Where: Centergy One Building - Hodges Room (335) 
            75 5th Street NW
            Atlanta, Georgia 30308
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Message from the President
  
     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
RenovoData, Inc.
 
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