Online data backup

A date for your diary.  5th March 2013.  That is the date for next year’s Data Protection Officer Conference in Manchester.  A fantastic conference with plenty of information, interactive sessions and learning regarding data policy and protection. This year’s conference heard from many key speakers such as Francis Maude MP, Tim Kelsey (Cabinet Office and ICO’s David Smith.  There were sessions on cloud computing, data sharing and a key hot topic, reporting breaches. Next year’s [...]

Data breach figures increase tenfold According to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) data breach figures have increased tenfold over the course of the past five years.  You can’t help but notice the amount of news stories highlighting data breaches that have significant ramifications.  It seems that of late there are more stories than ever before. Back in 2007-2008 there were only 79 instances but in 2011-2012 there have been 821.  This is also due to [...]

Our lives today are full of information.  On any one day we may have to provide or use data on numerous occasions.  Just think about your average working day.  From passwords to bank details and project documentation to customer data, it is part of our lives. So are you doing enough to protect your data?  Whether you run a business or use your home PC to shop online, you need to know that the information [...]

In this era when everything seems to be digital, it would be strange if this wasn’t carried into the workplace. You could say it already is.  We have PCs that are able to communicate with one another even if they aren’t in the same building.  We have iPhones, smart phones and iPads where we can receive our emails and access the Internet even when we aren’t in the office.  We are digital man! But what [...]

How often do you spring clean your emails?  Do you hoard documents either on your PC or as hard copies? In a study completed last year and published in the journal Science, by 2007 the world had stored a colossal 295 Exabytes of information and that’s 5 years ago!  Each Exabyte is worth a billion Gigabytes. To try to visualise this: It’s as big as 1.2 billion hard drives Or if all the information was [...]

It’s a truly digital age.  How many telephone numbers do you commit to memory – your memory that is not your i- or smartphone?  Everything is stored for us in a piece of digital apparatus for easy access.  What happens when the apparatus fails or is lost?  We go into complete panic. At your place of work this dependence of digital technology is even greater.  You can’t afford to lose data without completely messing up [...]

The New Year is finally upon us and it is now time to make sure that everything in your business is as it should be for 2012. It can be quite therapeutic to start a New Year by clearing out all of the old and allowing new and exciting things into your work place. Here at DataSpace UK we believe that one of the best ways to start the New Year is by ensuring your [...]

There once was a time when we had no hard drives, discs, memory sticks or data that could simply vanish into thin air. Online data has now become the backbone for all businesses. As you read this you probably shiver slightly if you think of what could happen if you were to lose your online data. Imagine if your systems went down and you lost even just your emails? The disruption that would cause alone [...]