FTC warns of leaked data

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has notified nearly 100 organisations that data from their networks has been found on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, reports CNET News.

The FTC notices went to private and public entities, including schools and local government agencies and organisations with as few as eight employees to as many as tens of thousands.

The sensitive information about customers and employees that was leaked could be used to commit identity fraud, conduct corporate espionage, and for other crimes. The FTC did not name the organisations involved.

IBM is bringing data de-duplication to its mainframes through an upgraded gateway appliance that has the ability to compress up to 25TB of tape application data into 1TB of disk space, writes Computerworld.

IBM says its System Storage TS7680 ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway for System z, a data protection platform for z/OS environments, is available immediately.

"Data de-duplication can dramatically extend storage capacity," says Cindy Grossman, IBM's vice-president for tape and archive storage systems.

Double-Take Software has introduced a disaster recovery (DR) service that lets organisations switch mission-critical workloads to a cloud-based backup while their production system is repaired, states Computing.co.uk.

The offering can dramatically reduce downtime, yet is cost-effective enough even for smaller companies, the firm claimed.

Available immediately, Double-Take Cloud uses the firm's system state replication engine to maintain a cloud-based duplicate of key workloads using Amazon's EC2 platform.