Monday, September 1, 2008

Keeping data safe and private

WIRED: New technologies are beginning to show how we might have more independent, safer and more private lives online, writes Danny O'Brien

WHOM DO you trust? That's the question that users (and businesses) should be asking - with the entirety of their personal data and their backups in the balance.

From home-spun programs written to dump your computer's hard drive on Amazon's servers, to enterprise-level systems that backup an entire company's digital assets far from the office while its employees sleep, everybody wants to save their data offsite using the internet. Some might even store data on the internet that they don't keep in their offices, for ease of access from any location that has internet access. Read More

Courtesy: Irish Times

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