When a security breach occurs, especially in a large organization, identifying where and how it occurred are immediate first reactions. Next steps include determining how far it has penetrated, what is at risk and, ultimately, how to correct the situation. For certain external data covered by legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SBA), Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and more, corrective action is well defined and extremely costly. Those
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Practically every week the news is filled with horror stories of poor data security. Someone loses a media tape and with it goes all of IBM's retiree information. A hacker gets into TJX's customer records and the firm is inundated with bad press and lawsuits. Yet protecting against these happenstances is actually fairly straightforward. Let's first look at where data storage policies have failed in recent years.

The folly of physical tapes  read more »

THE LATEST GENERATION OF IBM’S HIGH-END DASD STORAGE, THE
DS8100, has brought to market a substantial leap in capacity and performance
over the Enterprise Storage Server (“Shark�). Compared to the Shark,
it has a smaller physical footprint, runs at about 6 times the performance
ability, and can hold up to 192 terabytes (TB) of data vs. 27.9TB.  read more »