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Facebook starts rolling out end-to-end encrypted backups to WhatsApp

The Verge

WhatsApp’s end-to-end encrypted chat backups for iOS and Android are available starting Thursday, Facebook announced. The company has offered end-to-end encryption for chats for years, but with this new change, you can get that same level of encryption with your backups.

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Achieve scalable cyber resiliency in the cloud during an age of exponential data growth

CIO Business Intelligence

The rest is stored in the cloud (29%), on the edge (19%) and a variety of other locations (4%). But even though the largest share of data is still in the data center, the momentum is clearly with the cloud and the edge. To learn more read IDC’s white paper, Improving Data Resilience with a Cloud-first Approach Cloud Computing

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WhatsApp is adding encrypted backups

The Verge

WhatsApp will let its more than 2 billion users fully encrypt the backups of their messages, the Facebook-owned app announced Friday. WhatsApp users who opt into encrypted backups will be asked to save a 64-digit encryption key or create a password that is tied to the key. We expect to get criticized by some for this”.

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Cloud File Data Storage Consolidation and Economic Comparison Model #blogtobertech

Storage IO Blog

Cloud File Data Storage Consolidation and Economic Comparison Model #blogtobertech The following is a new Industry Trends Perspective White Paper Report titled Cloud File Data Storage Consolidation and Economic Comparison Model.

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What Is Critical Software? NIST Defines It

SecureWorld News

Backup/recovery and remote storage. Lastly, NIST makes a very important footnote about critical software, saying it does not matter whether this software is in the cloud, on-premise, or in a hybrid environment. See more details in the new NIST white paper on critical software defined. Remote scanning 10.

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What Is Critical Software? NIST Defines It

SecureWorld News

Backup/recovery and remote storage. Lastly, NIST makes a very important footnote about critical software, saying it does not matter whether this software is in the cloud, on-premise, or in a hybrid environment. See more details in the new NIST white paper on critical software defined. Remote scanning 10.

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Part 6 – Which HDD for Content Applications – General I/O Performance

Storage IO Blog

This is the sixth in a multi-part series (read part five here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. In this post the focus is around general I/O performance including 8KB and 128KB IOP sizes.