It was 1993. I was called to meet with a new client. They were in an extremely hard way. The company, a small manufacturer’s representative, had experienced a type of data loss that few anticipate: their single computer had been stolen. But they had backups, right? Yes. They had a tape backup system. With one tape. That they left in …

Think your SQL databases are backed up by your routine file backups? Think again. A large St. Louis company was backing up their critical payroll database every day – or so they thought. When a virus hit the system and scrambled their files, they discovered an error in their database backup process and all their backups were, in fact, nine …