<Yes we all know that the statement in question is completely
unacceptable and it raises more questions than it attempts to answer.
But you do not live in a Starlin's USSR, just make a note in your diary
to avoid using low cost, ineffective vendors and support a vendor who
actually wants your business enough to do it right. You can do it
comrade.>
????????????

Putting aside Gerald's attempt (I hope) at humor, my point was that
either the author or IM missed the boat on the complete issue of IM
losing backup tapes.  I agree that the issue of identity theft is a big
one and IM suggested a solution (customers should use encryption).  What
I found disturbing was the complete lack of reference to the issue of
losing contingency backups and not addressing the issue. A 99.99%
success rate by a storage vendor is going to mean beans to a mid-size
company that loses its contingency backup, is not told it is missing,
and then suffers a catostrophic event. I still think it show a lack of
concern - whether by IM or the author I don't know.


Ginny Jones
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM)
Records Manager
Information Technology Division
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
Newport News, VA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Gerard Nicol
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 6:11 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: RAIN - lost backup tapes

Ginny,

Yes we all know that the statement in question is completely
unacceptable and it raises more questions than it attempts to answer.

But you do not live in a Starlin's USSR, just make a note in your diary
to avoid using low cost, ineffective vendors and support a vendor who
actually wants your business enough to do it right.

You can do it comrade.

Gerard



On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:26:16 -0400, Jones, Virginia <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>I received a reply from the author.  He stated his understanding was
>"that the data in question dated from 2000-2003, so data privacy was
>the bigger issue here. My guess is this was more about archiving to
>meet regulatory compliance than DR"
>
>While the particular Bank of America and Ameritrade tapes may have been

>older, I am still concerned that IM or the author did not address the
>contingency loss issue.
>
>
>Ginny Jones
>(Virginia A. Jones, CRM)
>Records Manager
>Information Technology Division
>Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
>Newport News, VA
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