In continuation of the last month's post on the Backup Bet, where there is a gap in small and medium business segment for data protection, this month we will see some interesting info on why many don't use data protection or don't think about data protection.
There is an interesting discussion in Slashdot about why people don't use data protection
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/04/2154227/Vendors-Say-Data-Protection-Software-Too-Complicated-To-Use
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"With a series of major data breaches over the past few months, you'd think more and more companies would be investing in data protection software, which can help keep data secure even on systems that have been compromised. Unfortunately, even organizations that have paid good money for this software often don't use it, because, as one of the vendors admits, it's often too complicated to use."
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http://www.itworld.com/data-protectionrecovery/161959/apps-stop-data-breaches-are-too-complicated-use
This complication issues is what we spoke about in the first article, we need to get innovations about making this more intuitive and easier. It need not be a software innovation, since there are lots of good backup vendors, but there needs to be process innovation or service innovation that makes data protection being adopted across segments.
Recent news about Google losing gmail users data, a snip courtesy CNET News.
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Treynor explained that, even though Google keeps multiple copies of the data in multiple data centers, sometimes "software bugs can affect several copies of the data." As a safety measure, the company backs up data on offline tapes, which makes restoring the data more time consuming than transferring requests between data centers, Treynor said.
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Many organizations use tape backups and send it offline, this makes restore time consuming and lot of manual resource is needed. We need online backup technologies that replaces tapes and get the data, may be from cloud!!!
There is an interesting discussion in Slashdot about why people don't use data protection
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/04/2154227/Vendors-Say-Data-Protection-Software-Too-Complicated-To-Use
<Snip>
"With a series of major data breaches over the past few months, you'd think more and more companies would be investing in data protection software, which can help keep data secure even on systems that have been compromised. Unfortunately, even organizations that have paid good money for this software often don't use it, because, as one of the vendors admits, it's often too complicated to use."
</Snip>
http://www.itworld.com/data-protectionrecovery/161959/apps-stop-data-breaches-are-too-complicated-use
This complication issues is what we spoke about in the first article, we need to get innovations about making this more intuitive and easier. It need not be a software innovation, since there are lots of good backup vendors, but there needs to be process innovation or service innovation that makes data protection being adopted across segments.
Recent news about Google losing gmail users data, a snip courtesy CNET News.
<snip>
Treynor explained that, even though Google keeps multiple copies of the data in multiple data centers, sometimes "software bugs can affect several copies of the data." As a safety measure, the company backs up data on offline tapes, which makes restoring the data more time consuming than transferring requests between data centers, Treynor said.
</snip>
Many organizations use tape backups and send it offline, this makes restore time consuming and lot of manual resource is needed. We need online backup technologies that replaces tapes and get the data, may be from cloud!!!
