GDV Online Backup and Failover Blog

Harris Interactive surveyed 497 IT individuals who were either IT or business executives and the results showed similarities and differences in matters relating to disaster recovery. Continue reading →

A computer glitch stopped trading for 40 minutes in more than 200 stocks at the New York Stock Exchange today.  One of the key computer servers used to conduct trading lost connectivity to the trading network.  As a result, stocks such as General Electric and ExxonMobil were unable to be traded.  Until a backup server was put in place, trading in those shares was stopped on the floor of the NYSE.  Any trades sent to the NYSE during the time of the outrage were immediately cancelled and the brokers were notified.  If a trade was denied during the time the NYSE’s system was down, it would have been rerouted temporarily to an alternative market or exchange.  NYSE spokesman Ray Pellecchia stated, “We’ll review the problem tonight, but it’s back to business as usual.”

While we recognize the complexity of running the NYSE is vast, it seems like anything this important to the U.S. and world economy should have better systems protecting continuity.  One has to wonder the cost in lost trades and missed opportunities.

Acronis, a major vendor of backup software, conducted an online survey of the backup habits of home users.  Out of the 6,091 North Americans that completed the survey, nearly two-thirds (64 %) of users Continue reading →

In years past, there have been numerous public cases of hacks and viruses that have taken place across the United States.  President Obama announced on May 29 that he will create a new White House office of cyber security, due to the nation’s vulnerability to cyber attacks.  Continue reading →

The National Archives lost a computer hard drive containing massive amounts of sensitive data from the Clinton administration. Continue reading →

Last week, Global Data Vault was an InteropNet sponsor and official Disaster Recovery supplier for Interop, the industry’s most comprehensive IT Conference, in Las Vegas.  This video provides a tour of the network explaining the InteropNet infrastructure in detail.  Interop’s lead engineer Geoff Horne describes the services provided by Global Data Vault and their benefits for InteropNet at 13:30.

160,000 individuals who have received healthcare services from the University of California at Berkeley since 1999 have had personal information exposed to overseas hackers. Continue reading →

InteropNet goes live in one week. Global Data Vault is the Official Disaster Recovery provider. Here’s an overview of the project:

Come see us next week at Interop, booth 853, and tour InteropNet!

Global Data Vault announces the next generation in disaster recovery solutions: Advanced Data Protection, which combines backup and failover delivered remotely as a service, at a break-through price. Continue reading →

This one is hard to believe, but true. According to Wikileaks and as reported by the Washington Post, On Thursday, April 30, the secure site for the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) was replaced with a $US10M ransom demand. The PMP is used by pharmacists and others to discover prescription drug abuse. Continue reading →