Data Storage Backup And Recovery

A US wireless infrastructure was put to the test after 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit near Richmond on the East Coast.

As millions of callers tried to make phone calls and send messages the huge spike in call volumes jammed the lines leaving people frustrated and angry as the network congestion demonstrated how the carriers simply weren’t prepared for a large-scale catastrophe.

To industry officials, though, the networks' ability to right itself after the initial crush of calls was encouraging and was a huge improvement from a decade ago, when the September 11th attacks caused outages for hours and days afterward.

"Our network sustained no physical damage and performed ruggedly and durably despite the magnitude of the earthquake," said Bill Kula, a Verizon Communications Inc. spokesman.
Natural disasters are inevitable and often unpredictable which is why it’s important to ensure that your business is prepared. Here at Elite Telecom we offer a range of disaster recovery services so you can enjoy business continuity should disaster strike.

The VoIP market is growing considerably; according to TMCnet.com, the industry is expected to be worth a staggering $32.2 billion by 2013.

Swyx is a manufacturer of software based pure IP based telephone systems, perfectly compliant with the Microsoft portfolio. As a respected and successful VoIP reseller, GP Telecom can provide you with the benefits of such an impressive and revolutionary product.

For growing businesses, Swyx phone systems are an essential communication component, as they are totally scalable across numbers of users and sites meaning that you pay as you grow so that you never need to purchase a new phone system again.

With a VoIP solution there is no physical maintenance, no capital expenditure and a guaranteed outstanding quality of highly-effective security.

It also opens the spectrum for call handling extras – with the ability to record and manage inbound and outbound calls, also available from Elitetele.com.

Being a software application allows Swyx to offer functions that many of Elitetele.com's competitors can only offer through premium additions. These functions include convenient business call tools such as; Call Recording, Unified Messaging, Calendar Based Call Routing and unlimited, unrestricted conferencing.

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Zurich Insurance is once again in the limelight for all the wrong reasons. Back in August 2008 the South African arm of the insurance company misplaced an unencrypted backup tape and the incident wasn’t found out by Zurich Insurance for a whole year.

Now, Zurich Insurance has just been handed the largest fine ever given by the Financial Services Authority – a huge £2.28 million. The fine was given after it was revealed that Zurich had lost the personal details of 46,000 customers who could be exposed to burglary and fraud now. After the 2008 incident, Zurich said it highlighted its need for better data security. But it looks as though this fell by the wayside.

Oracle, the global software and hardware company, has announced a new set of features for its StorageTek tape-based data storage solutions. The main improvement in the storage solution is the increase in size of possible systems to 150 petabytes.

The StorageTek SL8500 series has a slot capacity of 100,000 up from 70,000 and it is also capable of storing up to 1.5TB of data. As far as data storage systems go, Oracle has once again put tape storage at the forefront of storage, rather than as just an archival system. In a world of cloud storage and virtualisation, tape can still hold its own.

According to a new survey by IT security company AVG, many people across the UK are using data storage with no backup – in other words, they’re storing valuable data on their PCs with no security and no backup.

About 31% of people in the AVG poll had lost information they couldn’t replace that was stored on their PCs. The main causes of losing data were;
-PC malfunction

-Virus

-Human error

-Computer damage

-Power cut

Looking after your computer, getting the experts in should it malfunction and using antivirus software are all measures that may just save your data.

BlackBerry business mobile users will be pleased to hear that Mimecast, an email management firm, can bypass Microsoft Exchange or the BlackBerry Enterprise Server during an outage. What this means for business mobile users, is that even in a server outage, you can still send and receive email messages!

Peter Bauer, the CEO of Mimecast says, "The service works by sending mails directly from our cloud architecture to users' devices,” bypassing the servers completely. By hosting messages in the cloud, BlackBerry users will be able to continue with their business no matter what!

Verizon and IBM have gone into partnership to offer a risk management service for cloud-based computing. As simple as it is effective, the service basically makes automatic copies of all business data that you send to the cloud.

Cloud-based computing has gained popularity recently, however it has failed to gain the total trust of the telecoms world. By making copies of all data sent to the cloud, IBM and Verizon are giving companies peace of mind where their data is concerned. With the ‘Managed Data Vault’ service, if something goes wrong in the cloud, customers can retrieve a file, restore a device, or recover from a serious outage. What a way to back up your data!

Toshiba, the phone system manufacturer, has created a new product line aimed at the data storage industry. The new Canvio line features Windows-based NTI BackupNow EZ software.

The Canvio portable hard drive has search capabilities as well as the ability to restore and retrieve and lost files. Toshiba is offering the range of Canvio hard drives in four different data storage capacities ranging from 500GB to 1TB.

Toshiba’s Canvio line is customisable and can provide complete system backup – it also comes in five different colours, to match whatever colour scheme you may happen to have in your office.