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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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 11; pp. 85 - 86
Main Author: Liskov, Barbara
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2008
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        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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          Backup processing alternatives in electronic data processing
          Information storage & retrieval systems
          Information retrieval
          Data warehousing
          Computer storage devices
          Data protection
          Data replication
          Crisis management
      ab: 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.
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