Archive for the 'Data Storage' Category

What is the Best Method to Back up Data?

This being the age of internet, chat rooms, blogging and innovative hackers, their expectation never gets fulfilled. The news always leaks out or is methodically publicised by a rival or a gleeful hacker. Thereafter, insult is added to their injury as irate customers and the eager press demand expla…

Beware of Data Dumpster Divers

 

Some 30 percent of businesses in the UK leave data, some of it sensitive, on their PCs when they dispose of them, according to research findings released this week by computer maker Lenovo.

In the survey of 300 businesses commissioned by the UK-Ireland arm of the company, 29 percent of IT m…

EC Grills Hollywood Film Studios on High-Def Format Choices

The European Commission has asked major Hollywood movie studios to provide information about their choices of high-definition DVD formats as part of an informal examination for the possibility of antitrust activity. The two competing standards — HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc — have each won exclusiv…