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• Google outage takes down Gmail, Docs, Calendar

  Google and many of its services suffered an outage this morning, causing a ripple of frustration and confusion to show up on Twitter.

• New disaster recovery pricing system bases charges on how much data is recovered, not backed up

  There's a dirty little secret in the disaster recovery
  industry, according to Dave Simpson, who tracks the storage market for the 451
  Research Group. Usually, customers require less recovery than industry vendors
  make them believe, he says. But vendors charge customers based on how much data
  they back up, when in reality it's rare for an organization to require a
  complete recovery of all its backed up data.

• The Dangers of Disconnected Data

  CIOs in the food and pharma industries confront unique challenges in untangling complex supply chains to ensure product safety and availability.

• The panic is over. Facebook is back up

  Facebook suffered a service disruption for about four hours Tuesday night, giving users error messages or long response times.

• The key to robust apps and ops: Be your own worst enemy

  Webscale pioneers like Netflix, Google, Amazon and Etsy have made a science of breaking their own applications and infrastructure so that they can determine if their application and operations architecture is complete and robust. While few IT shops run their apps and infrastructure in the same way as these behemoths, valuable lessons for CIOs and CTOs of all stripes can be found in the innovative practices these companies have created.

• SugarSync rolls out remote wipe for PCs and Macs

  With the new Remote Wipe feature, both business and individual users can remove all of their synced files from a PC or Mac in the event of a loss or theft.

• Best plan to save Earth from a killer asteroid? Nukes!

  To protect the Earth from a devastating collision with a large asteroid, one scientist says the best solution would be to nuke it.

• Practical advice about disaster recovery planning

  Disaster recovery plans and the usual mix of uninterrupted power supplies (UPSs), co-location services, data mirroring and hot-standby technologies theoretically make it possible to weather any storm. But are backup systems, replication rules and fast failover solutions enough?

• Internet back up in Syria after 20-hour outage

  Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier today.

• Understanding hypervisor-based disaster recovery

  A common misconception in IT is that virtualization and enterprise-class disaster recovery just don't mix. Either you get the flexibility of the virtual data center or the robust capabilities and short recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) that come with great DR, but never both at the same time.

• Encryption as an enabler: the top 10 benefits

  If deployed correctly, encryption does not need to be a headache. Instead, encryption can be an enabler to achieve the flexibility, compliance and data privacy that is required in today's business environments.

• STORserver enters cloud business

  STORserver, a maker of backup appliances, announced private and public cloud backup services.

• Cutting downtime, staff overhead with outsourced DR

  When it comes to disaster recovery — assuming they don't ignore DR altogether — Australian businesses have a tendency to overestimate just how quickly they could retrieve their data if an incident occurs.

• Google Drive suffers outage Monday morning

  It's been a tough Monday morning for some Google Drive users who have been dealing with a service outage.

• Sepaton releases upgrades to high-end storage appliance

  Sepaton today announced its latest update to its enterprise-class data backup appliance, which almost doubles performance and increases connectivity by 2X over its predecessor.