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Data protection regulations and compliance

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  Cloud backup helps ASL Airlines evade ransomware and keep its business flying, says CIO

  ASL Airlines took home the Best of Show prize at the Best of VMworld 2018 Awards after detailing how adopting a robust and resilient disaster recovery strategy is helping it evade ransomware threats

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Cloud and backup top storage priorities for 2019

  Deploying the cloud for primary and secondary storage and backup and archiving project top project priorities in 2019. SAN, NAS and hyper-convergence also prominent

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Veeam Cloud Tier adds tiered storage for backups in S3 clouds

  Virtualisation backup specialist adds tiering of Veeam Availability Suite data to AWS, Azure and S3-compatible clouds, which can now also be used as a repository for its N2WS cloud-native backup

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Singapore releases Asia’s first AI governance framework

  The model framework will help businesses in Singapore tackle the ethical and governance challenges of AI implementations

• January 18, 2019 18 Jan'19

  Five issues for SMEs to consider when adopting encryption

  Encryption is still considered difficult to deploy and use as a data protection method, especially by small businesses, but considering five key factors can make adoption easier, says Becrypt

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Veritas launches Docker container backup in NetBackup

  Docker is becoming an industry standard form of application virtualisation, and with that comes the need to back up Docker environments and data. Veritas joins CommVault and Asigra in doing so

• December 03, 2018 03 Dec'18

  UK government commits to opening up data in bid to push adoption of AI

  Opening up data is vital to government plans to push adoption of artificial intelligence across all sectors of the UK economy

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  New forms of governance needed to safely and ethically unlock value of data

  Despite today’s abundance of data, most of it remains locked in silos, meaning new governance structures are needed to open it up and unlock its potential value to society

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Survey: Data very fragmented, and that’s a worry for most

  Cohesity-sponsored survey finds most organisations store multiple copies of secondary data and worry about the cost and the effect on their competitiveness

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Facebook to appeal EU-US data transfer ruling in Irish Supreme Court

  Facebook will appeal a decision by the Irish High Court to refer questions over the legality of EU-US data transfers to the European Court of Justice in January, as the Dublin court rejects attempt by a UK IT expert to join the case

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Government can’t guarantee no-deal Brexit data-sharing agreement

  Digital minister Margot James says there is no clear timetable on when the UK will secure a data adequacy decision from the EU, and cannot guarantee an agreement will be in place in the event of a no-deal Brexit

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Keeping Commvault on its toes in ASEAN

  Backup and data protection software supplier is going after mid-sized companies and renewing its focus on partners to make deeper inroads in Southeast Asia

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Arsenal puts Acronis in defence for analytics cloud backup

  Football club is increasingly driven by video and data analysis and opts for cloud backup software-as-a-service and quick restore to any location to replace ad-hoc staff solutions

• August 21, 2018 21 Aug'18

  Veritas aims to boost NetBackup with simplified UI and setup

  Two decades-old enterprise product upgraded with backups that can be set in three clicks, down from 30, plus instant VM workload recovery and capacity monitoring and planning

• July 26, 2018 26 Jul'18

  Cities key to making data a new form of infrastructure, says Nesta

  City governments need to take charge of data use and leverage responsible innovation, as data should not be seen as a saleable commodity, but a common good, according to the innovation foundation