IMPORTANT – Please read the latest defense digest about the Veeam Backup & Replication encrypted credentials disclosure
Global Data Vault is inherently interested in data protection and providing disaster recovery solutions for when disk drives fail. Continuing in our series of weighing the differences between enterprise class disk drives and desktop class disk drives, we are now...
Uh, yes. The good news is that some smart phones are safer than others. But that also depends on how you’ve cared for it. For example, Apple’s wildly popular iPhone is built on a restrictive platform that protects it from being vulnerable to viruses and malware being...
The Cascadia subduction zone is a 600-mile-long offshore earthquake fault that runs from northern California to southern British Columbia. And that fault has a serious tale to tell. Geologists have found sand deposits up and down the Pacific coast along this zone, the...
Tsunamis are arguably one of the most devastating and difficult to predict natural disasters. Evidence of this is the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami which is considered among the deadliest in human history, credited with more than 230,000 people killed in 14 countries...
There’s a lot of discussion about the “cloud” and what that means in regards to your data storage. We’ve even overheard conversations among business professionals stating that data storage in the “cloud” is not safe, but other solutions where the data is still being...
While people continue to debate the merits of global warming and its impact on their everyday lives, researchers are far more confident about the prospect of more intense heat waves, heavy downpours, earthquakes and even volcanic eruptions in our near future. But no...
According to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the United States has experienced a record number of billion-dollar natural disasters --and of those, at least 10 are approaching a total of $50 billion dollars in costs. Considered the “nation’s scorekeeper,” the...
If you’re thinking, “No one would want my company information, we’re never going to be a target of a hacker,” you’ll need to get your head examined and prepare for the worst. Hackers are attacking everyone from the little mommy bloggers to the US Government’s top...
With the recent news about hacked systems Lockheed Martin and RSA, and given these organizations' apparent sophistication, it is clear that it's time for all of us to review the security of our IT systems. Small businesses are not nearly as interesting to high-end...
As we build more complex systems like the Deep Water Horizon Rig, the potential for things to go catastrophically wrong increases – dramatically. As industries and products mature they do become more stable, examples are cars and atomic power. But oil exploration and...