Stories about: Atempo

The need to control and secure a continuing explosion of data across the corporate world is forcing IT managers to constantly be on the lookout for new equipment that can handle perpetually evolving requirements.

A group of five vendors has formed an alliance to help push Macintosh desktops into managed Windows environments on corporate networks.

Once confined to marketing departments and media companies, the Mac is spilling over into a wider array of business environments, thanks to the confluence of a number of computing trends, not the least among them a rising tide of end-user affinity for the Apple experience.

Double-Take Software and Dacoll have announced systems that claim to dramatically improve the recovery prospects of failed laptops, desktops and servers.

When attackers gained access to personal information on 19,000 students at Carnegie Mellon University last April, business and network administrators there began a systemwide review of data policies. As a result, the university drastically reduced its use of Social Security numbers (SSN) and implemented new security-management controls around its Oracle databases. But when it came to protecting data extracted from a database, Joe Jackson, system architect at the school, was at a loss.

Data backup and recovery software provider Atempo Inc. has acquired Storactive Inc., a small, privately held company that sells CDP (continuous data protection) software, said officials from both companies.

Before the digitalization of data, encryption was enough to protect vital, private data from prying eyes and malicious intent.

One job I don't envy is being the person responsible for data security at a major company. There are very few other jobs where there is so little you can do to prevent so much from going wrong.

Growing regulatory requirements for data retention and encryption are forcing enterprises to overhaul their data management strategies.

Storage virtualization vendor FalconStor Software this week announced two appliances -- one that emulates a virtual tape library and a box that does disk vaulting for disaster recovery.

Here's what has been happening recently in the storage industry. In alphabetical order...