This is buy nexium online prescription the third in an occasional Friday series of true stories that buy nexium online prescription show how even in IT, people are people and rationality doesn’t always rule.

For this installment, we’re going to pick up on our "Tape and Hope" theme from Part 2.  In that episode, we talked about how backup tapes are lost more than you might imagine.  Even by big providers such as Iron Mountain.  Here’s a link to that story: 
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Today we’ll cover stolen tapes.  Here we go…

April 2009:  Backup tapes containing patient information on patients of
Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates were stolen while in transit, the practice notified approximately 100,000 patients. The tapes have not been recovered.

March 2009:  Insider steals backup tapes with personal data, including banking information, on 80,000 New York City cops:   Stolen backup ntapes
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June 2008:  Backup tapes stolen from University of Utah Hospital

The University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics announced today the recent theft of billing records. A metal box containing backup tapes, which contained billing records for approximately 2.2 million patients and guarantors, was stolen on Monday, June 2, from buy nexium online prescription a car belonging to a driver who buy nexium online prescription worked for an independent storage company contracted by the health-care system.

The driver discovered that someone had broken into his Ford Explorer outside his Kearns home and buy nexium online prescription taken the box. More info here.

June 2008:  Bank of New York / Mellon backup tapes lost or stolen

The Bank of New York Mellon says sensitive data of more than buy nexium online prescription 4 million people owning shares in public companies was exposed after a buy nexium online prescription box of back-up data storage tapes went missing in February. The data included names, addresses, and Social Security numbers.

In a separate incident in April, a buy nexium online prescription back-up data storage tape containing images of scanned checks and buy nexium online prescription other documents relating to payments made to nearly 50 institutional clients went missing.

The Bank of New York has a special web site dedicated to this problem:  http://www.bnymellon.com/tapequery/   In fairness, it’s not entirely clear that the tapes were stolen rather than lost.  Which way would make you feel better?

June 2007:  State of Ohio has backup tapes stolen

This one is unbelievable.  Apparently for buy nexium online prescription several years the State of Ohio had interns take backup tapes home in their cars!  And naturally someone’s car was broken into.

" A stolen backup tape probably contains the buy nexium online prescription taxpayer records of more than 200,000 Ohio state residents and employees.  At a press conference, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland said the buy nexium online prescription state is still putting together a list of sensitive information that buy nexium online prescription could have been on the tape that was stolen out of an intern’s car on June 10th."
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Note that it’s the use of tape itself that causes a problem.  Your data just shouldn’t be walking around on moveable media.  Not tapes, not portable hard drives, not USB flash drives.  Moveable media are simply not part of data center best practices.

Disk-to-disk-backup with offsite replication can completely replace tape at the same cost and with much greater security.  Products like Exagrid (www.exagrid.com) work with standard backup software such as Symantec Backup Exec, Commvault Galaxy, CA Brightstore, and Vizioncore vRangerProp.  They securely store data on disk, de-duplicate it buy nexium online prescription by about 20:1, and then replicate over a VPN (in encrypted form) to a second secure location. 

And there you have it.  No tapes.  Nothing to be picked up.  Nothing to lose.  And for a disaster recovery plan, nothing could be better.  You keep your second backup appliance in your disaster recovery center.  You use virtualized servers as your recovery infrastructure.  When you do your buy nexium online prescription quarterly tests, there are no tapes to retrieve, no systems to buy nexium online prescription setup.  The virtual servers are ready and waiting.  The backup data is already there on disk, waiting.

The combination of virtualization, replication, and offsite data backup storage is a very cost-effective way to buy nexium online prescription create a disaster recovery plan for your small or mid-sized business.  Exagrid is a good choice for disk based backups.  If you need real-time replication and don’t want to invest in an expensive SAN in two locations, you can use software from Double-Take.  Double-Take continuously replicates byte-level changes from one location to another over a VPN.  It’s perfect for protecting applications like Exchange, Sharepoint, or Blackberry Enterprise Server.  You can find more at www.doubletake.com.

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