FAQ Category: Recovery By Storcom

What is Continuous Data Protection?

Continuous Data Protection (CDP) allows organizations to automatically capture and track data modifications, saving every version of user-created data locally or at a target repository. With little-to-no production overhead, incremental writes are replicated continuously and saved to a journal file. CDP’s change block tracking also allows users or administrators to restore data to any point […]

How Do You Prevent Data Loss?

Since ALL tape backups will fail at some point in time, organizations are quickly learning that tape is not always an adequate form of data backup. Tape drives can malfunction without showing warning signs, become corrupted due to accidental misformatting, mishandling, heat, or being hit by a virus, and this can make it impossible to […]

What is Business Continuity (BC)?

“Business continuity,” or “BC,” is the way that a business can maintain regular operations during an outage or systems malfunction. “Business continuity” should not be confused with “disaster recovery.”

What is DR/BU?

The IT term “DR/BU” is short for “disaster recovery and backup.” Backup and disaster recovery is also often referred to as “BU/DR,” “DR/BC,” or “BC/DR” (disaster recovery and business continuity). “Disaster recovery” is the way in which data, servers, files, software applications, and operating systems are restored following a disastrous event or systems failure. It […]

What are the Different Types of Hacking?

Hackers can access your passwords in a multitude of different ways. The most common methods are shoulder surfing, social engineering, dictionary attacks, and just attempting to guess passwords from information about the user that’s available to them. Email hijacking is widespread. Hackers, spammers, and social engineers taking over control of people’s email accounts (and other […]

Is My Data Storage Protected in the Event of a Disaster?

Not necessarily. The safety of your data is dependent upon a number of different factors from storage methods, firewalls, encryption, backups, how your company’s users are accessing the data, and a host of other variables. Data protection is defined as the safeguarding of your organization’s important information from corruption, compromise, or disaster-induced loss. It is […]

We are a Small Company So Why Do We Need to Protect Against Ransomware?

Ransomware is a major security threat to all businesses and individuals. Ransomware doesn’t discriminate on organization size. Contrary to popular belief, large companies are not the only targets of ransomware and small-to-mid enterprises are not immune to attacks. Small businesses lose close to $1 billion each year due to ransomware and that number is growing […]