It is an exciting time at SafeData! Today we announced that we were acquired by Data Storage Corporation (DSC), a provider of diverse electronic data storage and protection solutions. As you will read in the press release, I will continue as president of the SafeData unit and Larry Putterman will serve on the DSC board. [...]
It is that time of year again as most 2010 college graduates just walked across the stage to receive their diplomas and are now back home to what many call the “real world.” With it being considered one of the worst job markets in 25 years, many of the recent graduates are jobless and those [...]
You know you need a better data protection solution to ensure business continuity; however, the high availability solutions on the market just cost too much and might be overkill and the hotsite solutions are limiting.
Like most businesses, your needs probably fall right in the middle of these two types of solutions. If so, SafeData/DR (data [...]
Do you know your Recovery Time Objective (RTO)? For many businesses, both small and large, 24×7 data access is a necessity to run their business, serve their customers and prevent lost revenue. Hospitals are a great example of a type of organization that has near real-time requirements for their data backup and recovery. If their [...]
There is a lot of buzz at this time of year about what technologies will be “hot” for the new year. In a conversation I recently had with Peter Briggs, president of SafeData, he talked about the growing popularity of fully managed high availability services.
“SafeData has continued to see steady growth in the adoption of [...]
When we think about companies that need to protect their data, we often think of financial institutions, schools, government agencies and others that retain top-secret or personally identifiable information (PII). Trucking companies are not top of mind; however, in an article in Heavy Duty Trucking magazine on January 7 titled “Under Lock and Key: Protecting [...]
In the December 2009 issue of IBM Systems Magazine, is an excellent article demonstrating the value of outsourcing data backup and recovery services. The article, Trusted Partners, written by Jim Utsler, is a case study on SafeData’s customer, Southland National Insurance Corporation, and its use of SafeData/DR.
Bentley Pearson, VP of information services for Southland Insurance, [...]
SafeData announced a new product Monday. Its new backup and recovery appliance, SafeData Vault, is the first of its kind for the IBM System i community. Also available for Windows environments, SafeData Vault provides both local and remote backup for organizations, allowing them to easily and quickly recover data from their own on-site vault and [...]
Once in while we have to do a little shameless self promotion. Yesterday, SafeData announced its partnership with Omni Solutions, a communications consulting firm focused on providing CIOs with a single point of contact for all their communications, data, disaster recovery and business continuity needs.
Essentially, Omni’s more than 300 consultants throughout the United States [...]
Today, SafeData launched its e-newsletter, “The SafeData Insider”. If you would like to be more tied into the data protection and recovery industry and hear more about what is going on at SafeData, please email: info@safedata.net to request a subscription to this bi-monthly e-newsletter.
The first issue offers “Tech Tips” from Tony Washington, an iSeries [...]
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