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Archive for August, 2009

Deduplication and Encryption

I spend a lot of my time talking with Permabit customers and more and more recently I have heard questions on proper use of encryption in their storage environments. Lost customer data is a huge risk to businesses, and risk often directly translates to cost, either from legal penalties or in cleanup. For example, companies which handle credit card data have been scrambling to comply with the PCI Data Security Standards, and still in the news we...

Cloud Computing:So what’s behind the scenes?

There is much ado about Cloud Computing these days with everyone wanting to jump on the bandwagon that just happens to be the same bandwagon with a different name that everyone jumped on several years ago! So, what's different now and why does everyone think it will work this time? It's kind of like the term "archiving". Didn't we call that Hierarchal Storage Management (HSM) before? When that term got old, we tried using Information Lifecycle M...