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Article: Adaptive backup as a security enhancer.(Disaster Recovery & Backup/Restore)
- Article from:
- Computer Technology Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Electronic parasites are spreading through the computing fabric at an alarming rate; new vulnerabilities are constantly unearthed, and they morph into threats with ever-shrinking lag time. Yet security-related issues are not the only worries for IT. Systems management and integration tasks are a continuing challenge--and what technician doesn't get a little queasy when the CEO calls in a panic needing a backup restored before the board meeting in fifteen minutes?
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