Business Cloud Storage Dos and Don’ts
Cloud tools are attractive to businesses for many reasons. They allow for easy sharing and syncing of data, are easy to use, and are relatively inexpensive when compared to the costs of housing and maintaining an internal server setup. However, without...
Health Data Management Strategy Essentials: How to Safeguard Data
Health care data is highly sensitive and highly valuable -- making it a perfect target for hackers. A recent cyber attack at Stamford Podiatry Group in Connecticut put protected health information of 40,491 patients at risk, in addition to their social...
IT Budget Planning: Making the Most of your IT Budget
IT is an oft-forgotten piece of the business management puzzle, meaning it doesn’t always get the same thoughtful budget planning as other departments and business decisions do. While IT has a direct impact on business productivity, effectiveness and...
How to Choose a Top Enterprise Cloud Backup Solution
Cloud backup is your best (and often last) line of defense against data loss. This makes choosing the right enterprise cloud backup solution a critical decision that will have a lasting impact on your business continuity. Bottomline: you need it to work...
3 Data Governance Tools That Save Your IT Staff Time
Data governance is a critical business operation that allows your business to maximize data storage, reduce costs, mitigate risks, and keep compliance in check so that data delivers business value, rather than contributing to bottomless money pits....
The Importance of Data Quality Management for Businesses
Data quality management (DQM) handles, in essence, a system for managing the quality of data -- measured by the completeness, validity, accuracy, consistency, and availability of the data within your organization, while meeting statutory and...
Why Your Distributed Database is Vulnerable and How to Strengthen It
As companies grow and storage needs expand beyond a traditional, singular database setup, companies may find themselves needing a more elaborate database option. Distributed databases allow businesses to get all of the benefits of a database, with the...
Enterprise Data Management Planning: Where to Start
If you're planning on introducing enterprise data management into your organization, the best place to start is to form a good strategy. Enterprise data management refers to an organization’s ability to effectively enable its employees to create,...
4 Hard Truths of External Hard Drive Data Backup
Hard drives are often relied on for storing secondary copies of data. While external hard drives are the lifeline of many personal and business data backup plans, they have vulnerabilities that should be considered. Here are 4 hard truths of external hard...
Myths Businesses Believe About Data Recovery Services and DR Planning
There are several commonly held misconceptions surrounding data recovery, data recovery services, and proactive disaster recovery planning. In order to help businesses avoid preventable data recovery failures that could lead to hours of downtime and...
