1 February 2011

Part1: Fundamental Concepts in Data Protection

Data protection is about making data available when something is going wrong.

There is no business continuity without data availability. Data is a valuable yet vulnerable asset; it can be accidentally compromised or destroyed by viruses, a wrong patch or administrative errors. In addition human error can contribute to data loss (for example deletion of the wrong file), and also software can misbehave. Whenever this occurs you need an uncorrupted, clean copy to restore. This process is called recovery and data protection is bout making such a copy and the process of retrieving it.

Read the full article at The Register...