Safeguarding Online Information against Failures and Attacks.

The article discusses safeguards taken for information that is stored online, especially safeguards that protect against attacks and system failures. Companies such as Google and Amazon offer to store information online, demonstrating that online information storage has become a commodity in 2008. O...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 11; pp. 85 - 86
Autor principal:	Liskov, Barbara
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Nov2008
Materias:	Backup processing alternatives in electronic data processing Information storage & retrieval systems Information retrieval Data warehousing Computer storage devices Data protection Data replication Crisis management
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Sumario:	The article discusses safeguards taken for information that is stored online, especially safeguards that protect against attacks and system failures. Companies such as Google and Amazon offer to store information online, demonstrating that online information storage has become a commodity in 2008. Other topics include online information that can be shared with anybody, users who would not be satisfied if such information is not instantly accessible or lost, and data replication through the storage of information on multiple computers.