Stories about: LiveVault

These days in IT, you can buy a service for anything - including, once again, your storage.

John Lewis, IS director at Geokinetics, didn't let the geophysical services company's rapid growth shake him up.

Online video can boost electronics retailers' brand recognition and sales, although business and technical considerations have to be taken into account to achieve good results.

As previously predicted, EMC has acquired Berkeley Data Systems, provider of Mozy Online backup and recovery services.

The surging popularity of user-content driven social networking Web sites and greater corporate demand for Web 2.0 applications is putting pressure on storage vendors to expand and diversify their offerings to meet the demands of a broader audience, say storage analysts.

The maxim that timing is everything in business has special application to today's enterprise storage service providers. SSPs have evolved to the point where most experts and users say their time has come. With utility storage, state-of-the-art management services and savvy partnerships, today's SSPs can offer full-featured services tailored to specific enterprise needs. Also, with such new big-name players as HP, Sun and Verizon jumping into the market, interest in SSPs is intensifying.

Do you know where your data is? Probably not, if your employees are using notebooks, smartphones or other devices.

Iron Mountain's recently announced acquisition of LiveVault put the spotlight on what analysts say is a growing market for managed backup and recovery services.

Iron Mountain announced that it is buying LiveVault for US$50 million in a move to bolster its electronic data vaulting services. LiveVault's online server backup and recovery service has been resold by Iron Mountain for the past five years and targets small and midsize businesses.

Data protection company Iron Mountain Thursday announced it is buying LiveVault, a provider of online server backup and recovery services.

For all their differences, SMBs and ROBOs (remote offices/branch offices) have one unavoidable headache in common: designing a robust backup and recovery system at a justifiable cost.