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Your data protection audit lays out the plan that enables you to sleep at night knowing that data loss couldn’t destroy your business or be a costly and burdensome event. In the previous installment of our three part data protection audit series, we looked at the...
In part one of “How to plan and execute a data protection audit,” we discussed the importance of user participation in the design process of your data audit plan. In this installment, we go into more detail about the questions you need to ask about your business...
Hurricane Sandy Update Hurricane Sandy Update. Global Data Vault continues to support our customers in the affected areas especially New York and New Jersey. We have been busier than usual, but all of our customer recoveries have gone very well. We wish all of our...
The devastation from Hurricane Sandy is widespread, even to areas of the country not in the storm zone. While the effects are widespread, we want to assure our customers that NONE of our production systems were affected by Hurricane Sandy’s wrath on the east coast....
From the New York Times, here is a breakdown by time and state of the more than 6 million customers affected with Hurricane Sandy power outages this morning based on information updates from 35 major power companies: For more details on the impact see the New York...
Embrace the Audit The word “audit” strikes fear in the hearts of most business owners, but a pre-emptive data protection audit should actually be embraced. Taking stock of your data and the many scenarios which could impact its continuity is vital to the livelihood of...
Now that Hurricane Isaac is in our rear-view mirror, it’s time to assess the disaster damage. We monitored and shared the New Orleans power outages on Global Data Vault blog day-by-day, but we censored the wrath pointed at local energy provider Entergy to return the...
With power mostly restored now - and apologies to those still waiting, this will be our final update in our New Orleans After Isaac series. Hurricane Isaac was a Category 1 hurricane. By wind speed, it was barely even that strong, with top sustained winds of 80 mph....
Real progress is finally visible today. While many are still without power, there is surely a light at the end of the tunnel for those homes and businesses still waiting. A new color is peaking through now on the map: green!
If you look carefully today, you can see some improvements since Isaac struck. The map is much more blue than red - clearly, the outages are being reduced. Entergy had said they would have power back to 90% of those "ready for power" by September 6. Hopefully this...