One of my favorite security books is Cliff Stoll’s the Cuckcoo’s Egg, where he tracks a spy impersonating a well-known computer scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Once inside, the culprit hacks into a shared server to stage a series of attacks into other remote systems, located on remote networks...

Everyone seems to have a definition and opinion on cloud computing—and every technology vendor seems to have a solution. There’s a reason many of us did not sign up for cloud computing 102 at [enter any recent industry event you’ve attended] and avoid vendor headlines related to C and C. Filter,...

continued from part 1 Build an excel table and enter each of the business units along with the revenue and contribution (ie the contribution to the organization’s bottom line). Enter projected revenue and contribution as well. Now you have an empirical basis for ranking business units based on their...

In previous blogs we covered the identification of policies and assumptions as DR planning foundations. The third foundation for effective DR planning is the empirically based Business Impact Analysis or BIA. The BIA refers to a process that determines the tangible cost to the organization should a...

And a few parting thoughts when considering a new backup solution, in general: We strongly encourage customers to explore reference architecture design alternatives before choosing a specific product for deduplication. In most cases, backup architecture redesign is the best way to maximize re-use of...