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Today the SaaS-based company Backupify released a report examining 100 random data loss events that were posted on Google App Help forums. They categorized the events only dealing with enterprise customers into a strict data loss, meaning that the data doesn't exist, and data unavailable at the moment it is needed. Their research showed that 89% of the issues refer to data loss, and the majority of these were wrong suspensions, when an account was suspected of sending spam or otherwise at odds with Google's terms of service.

Once upon a time, the only computers people used at work were those paid for, owned and managed by the company and its IT department. One wouldn't even think of lugging in their home PC to use in the office. Why would they?

Even as laptops came into prominence, the few employees that both owned laptops and needed to use them for work purposes had to go through the IT department to have a VPN client and security software installed.

It's March 31, 2011. Do you know where your company's mission-critical data backups are? They, of course, should be safely stored someplace where you can access them easily should anything happen to your machine or network. More importantly, they should be up to date.

Far too many individuals and businesses are lax about keeping their data backed up on a regular basis. That's why a group of Reddit users decided to propose the first-ever World Backup Day to take place tomorrow, March 31.

We all know no one reads privacy policies. What do the top websites really include in them? In its mission to get anonymous public data, The Common Data Project a New York City-based non-profit, is on a mission to eliminate the barriers that privacy policies pose.

In a new report, they analyzed ten of the most popular Web properties on the Internet, and several more emerging ones. Here's how what they put in their policies affects your privacy, and how other enterprises can imitate their best practices.

As of July 22nd, all MySQL.com Web services have become completely inaccessible. Just in time for OSCON, the failure leaves all six million or more users of the open source database system unable to access source code, bug tracking, or discussion forums on the site.

According to Duleepa "Dups" Wijayawardhana of Sun Microsystem's MySQL Community Team, the problem was the result of a massive power outage in Uppsala, Sweden, where the infrastructure is located.

Cloud computing might strike fear in the hearts of some, but at least your employees can't walk off with your hard drives. Since May, the National Archives and Records Administration has offered a $50,000 reward for a missing Clinton-era hard drive.

As of Sunday, it's been revealed that thousands of electronic devices containing sensitive and historically important data are missing from the nation's most important public repository. While IT tends to have a knee-jerk reaction in favor of traditional data centers, the situation at the National Archives shows the sense of false security they impart.