Out of business, Clear may sell customer data
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We are collecting data at ever-increasing rates as the costs of data storage go down. Why get rid of our beloved data when we can always buy more storage space? Some companies like Google love collecting and working with data, and these companies will rarely or never get rid of their data. But odds are your company is not like Google and does not need all of that old data. This column will focus on crafting an effective data destruction policy.

Five Steps to HITECH Preparedness
CSOs in healthcare organizations know that the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, signed into law in February 2009, includes new privacy requirements that experts have called "the biggest change to the health care privacy and security environment since the original HIPAA privacy rule." These include:

AMR Rates Top Colleges for Supply Chain Studies
For students enrolled in U.S. universities' supply chain programs, life must be a little different than the average co-ed.

Cyberdefense center will lead in education
The Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE) opened in May 2008 in Tallinn, Estonia, to assist NATO with technical, legal and policy issues associated with dealing with cyberwarfare incidents. The 20-person center includes civilian analyst Kenneth Geers, who works for the U.S. Navy's Naval Criminal Investigative Services. Geers, who has been with the center for about a year and a half, spoke about CCDCOE's mission on the opening day of the organization's first-ever Conference on Cyber Warfare on Wednesday.

Q&A: NetApp's Jay Kidd discusses bidding war with EMC for Data Domain
NetApp today reached a revised stock and cash acquisition agreement with deduplication vendor Data Domain, but EMC has shown it's willing to offer cash for the company in order to undercut its chief rival as a suitor.

Champion Tech delivers SAN-based disaster recovery to dodge hurricanes

SaaS Benefits Governments Big and Small
SaaS helps a small town during emergencies.

DiskDigger Gets Better, But Stays Free
DiskDigger goes well beyond the usual undelete utility that's offered gratis as a leader product, though as of version 0.8 it does that. It will also dig "beneath the file system" (author Dmitry Brant's line, which I plan to borrow regularly in the future) to recover data on a sector-by-sector basis from hard drives, thumb drives, etc. (Think of sectors as little boxes containing data that are arranged in tracks/circles on your hard drive.)

Review: SanDisk one-touch backup drive offers simplicity, sophistication
SanDisk's Ultra Backup USB Flash Drive combines a physical backup button with sophisticated backup tools to make the little device convenient and easy to use.

Fabrik Backs Up Data Much Like Mozy Does
A Mozy by any other name is...Fabrik. Though resold by Hitachi-owned Simpletech, the only differences between Mozy and Fabrik are the name and the revision of the client software that sits in your system tray waiting to back up your files. That means that Fabrik Ultimate Backup Home (free) falls under industry giant EMC's umbrella. The 128-bit or 448-bit Blowfish encrypted data you send to them is safe--a lot safer than that data you back up locally.

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