Data Recovery News

Educating staff 'imperative to data security'

Category: Data security

12 March, 2010

An IT security expert has advised businesses that it is well worth taking the time to educate employees on security issues if they want to tackle the problem of cybercrime. Luis Corrons, technical director for Panda Security, said that the first thing to do is to try to avoid infections, although h... read more>>

HSBC reports data security breach

Category: Data security

12 March, 2010

Some 24,000 customers may have been affected by a data security breach involving a Swiss branch of HSBC three years ago, the bank says. The company had previously said that information held regarding ten accounts had been stolen by a former employee, who passed the data on to the French authoriti... read more>>

Google Apps now restores lost data

Category: Data recovery

11 March, 2010

Google Apps, the software-as-a-service collaborative productivity suite, is now fully disaster-proof and ready to instantly recover lost data in the event of a catastrophe, the company claims. The organisation made the announcement in its Official Google Enterprise Blog. The search giant is now ... read more>>

Data recovery solutions 'continue to grow'

Category: Data recovery

11 March, 2010

The global market for business IT continuity and disaster data recovery solutions will grow from $24.3 billion (£16.1 billion) in 2009 and surpass $39 billion in 2015, according to ABI Research. A number of emergency situations can arise that shut down computers and servers, which can serio... read more>>

UK businesses in 'data recovery failure'

Category: Data recovery

11 March, 2010

Small to medium businesses (SMBs) in the UK are more likely than their continental counterparts to suffer prolonged downtime as a result of poor data recovery practices, according to research by Acronis. Data recovery is the process of regaining data from damaged, corrupted or inaccessible storag... read more>>