The Absolute IT Asset Disposal Blog

With the volume of information being produced at exponential rates, it can become increasingly difficult to manage data effectively. However, decisions need to be made regarding which electronic records to keep and which to discard.

In order to develop an effective strategy that can be used regardless of the amount of data being produced, it’s important to ask some important questions.

The secure management of business data is an essential task for every company. This can be expensive, and high storage costs are just one risk that can become a reality without the right strategy in place. Because IT managers are responsible for cost and process management for data and its storage, building a successful management strategy for the data life cycle can pose a significant challenge. 

Cloud providers and other virtual systems can present very real data security challenges when the time comes to go to another cloud provider or purchase new physical storage. These kinds of live storage environments can make it difficult to know how to ensure any unwanted data is completely erased.

Whether you’re storing data on HDDs or in the cloud, the costs to do so are lower than ever. As a result, higher volumes of data are being stored today than at any other point in the past. So what could possibly go wrong?

The increased incentive of low prices and nearly-endless storage space has led to a phenomenon called data hoarding. Of course, cost and space are not the only contributing...

A few decades ago, tape was top-of-the-line data storage. Today, however, we have several options. So how does tape fit into modern security? Believe it or not, tape may still be superior, even to modern methods.

These days, it seems that new laws regarding data privacy are being put into place everywhere in the world. However, why should you or your IT team be concerned about what’s happening with data protection if it isn’t happening in the UK? The truth is that data privacy should be a top priority regardless of which laws may currently be in place or where.

The cloud has long been suggested as being the solution to providing employees with instant data access without placing security at risk. Many employees are cloud computing in a world without cubicles. However, is this is the most secure option?

You may already be backing up your company data to a secure offline database and ensuring your virus definitions are up-to-date. However, is there anything else you can do to ensure that your company data stays secure? The answer is yes, and it’s easier to do than you may think.

As technology advances, so too do the number of possible entry points for hackers. And mobiles are no exception; in fact, they are becoming targets for malware as fast as they are transforming the modern work space.

The most significant data protection legislation update for 20 years is coming in 2018 and, if you collect or store the data of European citizens, your business will be affected. It’s called the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and when implemented, will ultimately simplify business practices across the whole of Europe as well as for UK companies.