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WikitipSecure file transfer researchDataMotion found from a recent study that one third of companies admit that they take compliance risks and lack confidence in corporate security. 84% of respondents believe that employees infringe security and compliance polices when it comes to secure file transfer and 45.5% think that the policies are understood. With this lack of knowledge in compliance only 37.5% of respondents thought their company would pass a compliance audit. The study contained over 200 IT and business decision-makers in the US and Canada to find out about corporate email and secure file transfer. It is important to send information securely via email but it seems as if many companies have not yet grasped this concept and are putting their business at risk, and potential fines that are best avoided. There are easy and cost effective means of securing data, but companies need to learn and teach their employees about the importance of secure file transfer and the risks they face when not complying. |
Featured Case Study
Virtualization Energizes Cal State UniversityJohn Charles is the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila is Director, Server & Network Operations. In late 2007 they were both looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67KVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA. PG&E had informed them that no more power could be delivered. They would be out of power in less than six months. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years. |
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Featured How-To Note |
Storage Virtualization Design and DeploymentA main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center. The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more of the largest storage pools within a data center. | |||
