The debate over DVD backups begins, with RealNetworks in the courtroom
Within a month of its release, RealNetworks' RealDVD was involved in two simultaneous lawsuits with the MPAA, who sought an injunction on the DVD ripping software they farcically called "StealDVD." Sale of the software was halted in October after only a few days of commercial availability.
Today, the software comes up in court before Judge Marylin H. Patel, the same district court judge who presided over the case late last year, and is most famous for her decision to shut down peer-to-peer music swapping service Napster nearly nine years ago.
Apple Macs get Carbonite online backup, with free trials
After a beta test, Carbonite, a major provider of online backup services to consumers and small businesses, this week opened its first backup service for Macs.
Carbonite's new service provides automatic online backup for Intel-based Macs running Mac OS 10.4 or 10.5, backing up files to Carbonite's cloud-based servers in the background while users work at their computers. Secure socket layer (SSL) encryption is used for privacy.
FastBack backup service to move beyond Windows, says IBM
IBM will also offer its FastBack enterprise-class backup service not for just Windows but for other operating environments over time, according to a company product manager in an interview with BetaNews.
John Conner, an IBM product manager for both TSM and TSM FastBack, wasn't able to specify which platforms yet when talking with us. "But we're looking at Linux, Solaris, and AIX, for instance," noted Conner, who is product manager for both TSM and TSM FastBack.
Preview of 160 GB ClickFree backup drive
At the Digital Experience show last night, Storage Appliance Corp. previewed a new 160 GB ClickFree Automated Backup device, not set for official announcement until July 3.
NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) - In a meeting with BetaNews at Pepcom's annual press extravaganza, Storage Appliance Corp. President Ian Collins said that, aside from offering extra storage, the new $169.99 backup device will provide the same capabilities as ClickFree's already available 120 GB external hard drive.
Backup feature surprisingly removed from Windows Home Server refresh
Testers of a forthcoming service pack for Windows Home Server were the first to discover that a feature they'd come to rely upon had been removed from the product -- as it turns out, intentionally.
One of Windows Home Server's key features is the ability to perform manual or automatic backups of the entire contents of hard drives of PCs in a home network -- a consumer-centric version of the same backup engine used in Windows Server 2003 and 2008. WHS stores the backups from each of those drives in a special database; and for safety, many users have found it convenient enough to manually back up the backup database, sometimes onto separate drives in case of a server crash.
HP floats a file backup service in the cloud
One thing you start to notice about companies doing business "in the cloud" is that it's becoming harder to tell whether they were software or hardware companies to begin with. This morning, Hewlett-Packard publicly launched a subscription-based backup service where the "cloud" houses duplicate data.
HP's Upline allows users to share their stored data with other Internet users via uniquely created URLs. Though HP offered similar services in the past, Upline was created using technology from Opelin, a startup company it recently acquired. Opelin created the Titanize software solution, though anyone searching for Opelin Titanize will now be redirected to HP Upline.
Can EMC convince you to do online data backups?
How do you deal with backing up your data, especially when you're out on the road with your laptop? With today's announcement of EMC's MozyEnterprise, you can now encrypt, back up, and store your laptop or desktop PC data in a high security data center for not much more than $5 per month.
MozyEnterprise might finally be enough to convince even the most reluctant home users, small businesses, and enterprises that online backup and storage over the Internet is a safe, effective and maybe even necessary way to go, according to some industry analysts.
Intel: Backup Tapes for AMD Trial Were Destroyed in EC Investigation
In its final report to Special Master Vincent Poppiti, appointed to handle the discovery of materials relevant to the AMD v. Intel antitrust case, Intel admitted its IT department in Munich had lost track of, and inadvertently wrote over, backup tapes whose contents may have been vital to the case. The reason why, Intel said, relates to a separate antitrust investigation of Intel by the European Commission.
According to Intel's report, on July 12, 2005, its Munich office was paid a visit by investigators from the EC and the German Bundeskartellamt antitrust agency, in connection with a joint investigation unconnected to the AMD trial. There, tapes were retrieved from storage, sealed in metal boxes, bound with security tape, and handed to investigators.
Flaw Found in Symantec Backup Tool
Symantec has released a patch for its Veritas NetBackup software, saying it had discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the application. The flaw exists in the web programming language PHP, which NetBackup is partially written in. Successful exploitation would result in the attacker being able to take control of the affected system remotely.
This is the second time the NetBackup application has been found to have a buffer overflow issue. The last one was discovered in January, and was made worse when a security firm publicly disclosed exploit code for the issue. In this case, no known exploit is yet available, Symantec said in an advisory.
MS Enters Data Backup Market with DPM
Microsoft announced that it had officially launched its solution for disk-based backup called Data Protection Manager (DPM) on Tuesday.
The company claims that it would cost a user about $5,000 per terabyte of data versus ten times that in competing services. DPM also offers a speed advantage, working much faster than tape-based solutions.
IBM Shows Off Continuous Data Backup
IBM on Friday announced that it had developed new technology that will protect information stored on laptops and servers from viruses, file corruption or deletion. The software would make it unnecessary to schedule backups, as the process occurs continuously in the background.
As a user creates a file, a copy is created almost instantaneously and is stored on both the user's machine as well as a remote server. IBM says that a user could recover a file that is only seconds old through the system, meaning loss of data would be at a minimum.
MS to Offer New Low-Cost Data Backup
Microsoft is offering a new solution for business data backup at a price that it hopes companies will not be able to refuse. To protect 1 terrabyte of data, it would only cost the user $5,000 versus ten times that amount for competing backup services. A beta of the software first debuted last September.
The backup solution will be disk-based rather than tape-based as most are today.
Microsoft Releases Beta of Backup Tool
At the Storage Networking World conference in Phoenix Wednesday, Microsoft announced the availability of a public beta release of its Data Protection Manager (DPM) software. DPM provides a near continuous disk-based backup and offers rapid recovery in the event of a failure - without relying on tape.
Microsoft has been beta testing DPM among its partners since last September, and boasts a resounding positive response for the product.
AOL Trials Online Backup System
America Online is beta testing an online backup system for its subscribers, PC World first reported Friday. AOL members may save duplicates of their personal files, pictures and documents to redundant AOL datacenters as insurance against computing catastrophe.
AOL tells BetaNews that backup data is encrypted and password protected to deny others unauthorized access. The backups are recurring and performed automatically.
Microsoft Enters Data Backup Business
Microsoft is entering the disk-based backup and recovery market. The software giant has revealed an open beta of Microsoft Data Protection Server (DPS), a continuous disk-based backup and recovery solution. The software promises rapid, reliable and efficient recovery in minutes -- not hours -- for the Windows 2003 Server System customers.
Redmond has stepped up to the plate with a cadre of no less than 20 industry storage partners which include backup and recovery independent software vendors (ISVs), original equipment manufactures (OEMs) and independent hardware vendors (IHVs) lined up in its bullpen.
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