Imperva enjoys 80% growth

Imperva, an application data security company, has grown every leading metric of its business, including revenues and new customers, by nearly 80% in 2008, according to ad-hoc news.

Demand for the company's products accelerated significantly on a worldwide basis during the year. This as organisations continued to invest in the SecureSphere platform to protect sensitive data from external attacks and insider threats, and meet regulatory compliance requirements.

Year on year, Imperva nearly doubled the number of organisations protected by its products from 2 500 to 4 500, with 62 of those customers being on the Fortune 1 000 list.

The international economic slowdown has increased the risk of data theft by disgruntled employees who have lost their jobs, according to business 24/7.

Businesses in the Emirates region are implementing international security standards and investing in technology to protect themselves from such theft, say industry experts.

Organisations are also adopting corporate governance compliance standards that have data privacy clauses to protect customer information. As businesses develop multiple databases, the protection of information becomes more important as customers can access information from different sources, which makes data more vulnerable to theft.

Layered Technologies, a global provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, has added R1Soft Continuous Data Protection (CDP) across its entire line of dedicated servers, according to TMCnet.

With R1Soft's advanced data backup and restoral solution, Layered Tech customers gain near-continuous disk-to-disk data protection and restoration with minimal server performance impact, even on busy servers.

Layered Tech selected R1Soft CDP because of its unique restoral capabilities, which range from restoring single files to full bare-metal restores.