According to Killen, the IRS is aiming to archive all employees' e-mail electronically by the end of the year as part of a plan to move away from an antiquated approach consisting of printing and filing and using
backup tapes.
In response to congressional inquiries, the IRS had said that many of her emails couldn't be recovered because of a hard drive crash and the recycling of
backup tapes.
In addition, the court affirmed the holding that the developer had no duty to preserve
backup tapes.
Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects information assets, including business documents,
backup tapes, electronic files and medical data.
This allows direct access to unstructured user data within backup images so it can be searched and extracted for business relevance eliminating the need touse
backup tapes as an archive and supporting tapeless diskbased backups.
"Retrieving data from traditional
backup tapes can take a long time to recover, and there's no guarantee that the tapes aren't corrupt," he says.
Secret Service accidentally left a pouch containing two computer
backup tapes on a train in Washington's Metrorail subway system.
* Almost half (42%) still rely on the traditional approach of physically taking
backup tapes or disk offsite each day;
Backup tapes are typically created at night and then shipped off-site where they will be safe from a disaster that strikes the data center.
Index Engines said its indexing technology enables high speed processing of large volumes of hard to access data through direct indexing of
backup tapes and 1TB/h/node indexing of online data.
The thieves took a safe with computer
backup tapes inside containing the personal information of 15,396 people registered at St Paul's Surgery in Winchester, Hampshire.
The solution includes RenewData's forensic collection, data extraction and processing of historical data and
backup tapes with AXS-One's archival and indexing of all ESI.
