Check out this site for more info on how to keep things beyond Death. Lots of good links.

I came across this article today by By Suzanne Choney.  The best part for me was reading why iForem was created. 

“Storage expert Thomas Coughlin likens it to drowning in a sea of content “if we don’t create ways to organize and find stuff,” as well as to protect it by backing it up”…”Increasingly, it’s becoming digital content from cradle to grave. That has its own challenges, which include how do you preserve and protect digital content for the future?

“We have more of the personal experience that we’re conserving (digitally) for the next generation than ever before, but in a sense, in a more potentially fragile package than has ever existed in the history of mankind,” he said.

“Almost everybody is doing storage of one sort or another. How well they’re handling it, how well they’re backing up, and will stuff that they keep be available later? That’s a whole other problem.”

iForem is really the only viable solution.  We created the financial and technological solution to address this exact problem.  With new products on the way to answer format and presentation issues for years to come, we are building the future today.  Come see how iForem answers this statement.

This is how data is managed to keep costs down in the world today - would have been allot safer with iForem.

olumbus (OH) - The man responsible for the biggest data theft in the state of Ohio has received his official punishment - five days of lost vacation.

This summer, a tape containing tens of thousands of government data records was stolen from the car of an Ohio intern.  According to reports following the incident, it was common practice to send sensitive discs home with employees as a “safety measure” to ensure critical government data was not left entirely in the state offices overnight.  The practice was put to an end after the July incident following an executive order from Governor Ted Strickland.

Jerry Miller, Ohio Department of Administrative Services payroll team leader, was deemed responsible for the data theft.  He was ordered to surrender a week of paid vacation for his role in the data breach.

Social security numbers and other sensitive data of over 120,000 Ohio taxpayers and state employees were on the tape, according to computer forensics research.  The cost of replacing th? data and providing free credit monitoring to all those affected, along with other costs, will total around $3 million.

A spokesperson for the state’s Department of Administrative Services called Miller a “stellar longtime DAS employee”, saying he was forthcoming about the incident.  The punishment was recommended by a state board that investigated the incident. 

The government spokesperson went on to say, “One lesson that the state learned is that we need to throw more resources at security and privacy when we have an issue like that.”