Glenn Groshans

Every business owner knows that information is much more than one of an organization's strategic resources. In a very real sense, information is the organization. For IT professionals, there's no shortage of challenges when it comes to protecting and managing such a vital asset efficiently. The year 2005 was proof that information loss can be detrimental to an organization. Almost every week another organization was involved in a security breach involving valuable corporate data or customer information, several of which involved stolen or lost backup tapes. As a result, high-profile organizations are scrambling to ensure more effective storage security and data protection, while concerns surrounding identity theft continue to mount among consumers. Adding to storage professionals' anxiety is the amount of data that can be compromised on a single backup tape. Because... (more)