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Buyer’s guide: Data protection for hybrid clouds

Network World

Data protection is a broad category that includes data security but also encompasses backup and disaster recovery, safe data storage, business continuity and resilience, and compliance with data privacy regulations. And 80% of enterprises have adopted a hybrid computing model. Microsoft and Unitrends are niche players, according to Gartner.

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Fed Tech News Roundup 8 July 2015

CTOvision

Pentagon's Silicon Valley unit gets $1.75M for fiscal 2015 - FCW.com FCW (Today) - FCW.comPentagon's Silicon Valley unit gets $1.75M for fiscal 2015FCW.comThe Defense Department's first fulltime outreach office in Silicon Valley is up and running thanks to a July 2 memo from Deputy. Some are already. Drone pilot training, DISA's big cyber.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

May 2011: Autonomy sneaks in one last acquisition, of online backup service Iron Mountain Digital, for $380 million. January 2015: The UK’s Serious Fraud Office calls off its investigation of Autonomy, saying it has “insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction.” June 2015: Hewlett-Packard Co. 19, 2011, and Nov.

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Oracle adds compute services to its Cloud@Customer offering

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprises will be able to use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Console and other tools to control data locality, replication, and backups along with the local consumption of OCI services, the company said. The infrastructure will be managed and operated by Oracle.

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Data Protection Diaries: Are your restores ready for World Backup Day 2015?

Storage IO Blog

In case you forgot or did not know, World Backup Day is March 31 2015 (@worldbackupday) so now is a good time to be ready. The only challenge that I have with the World Backup Day (view their site here) that has gone on for a few years know is that it is a good way to call out the importance of backing up or protecting data.

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Update On The Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs Consular Consolidated Database: A system that touches the entire nation

CTOvision

I read everything I could regarding outages impacting the CCD over the last year, including the official statements by the Department of State (the July 2014 outage was reported on here , the June 2015 outage was reported on here ) as well as the additional color and context provided by NPR , US News and World Report , and Nextgov.

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Ransom-what? Learning from Hacked Hackers

SecureWorld News

The global cost of ransomware rose from $325 million in 2015 to $20 billion in 2021, and is expected to climb to $265 billion by 2031. They're looking to install root kits, escalate privileges, they're deleting backups (which corrupts and affects backups)." The human element was responsible for 82% of attacks in 2021.

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