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7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job)

         

7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data

(and Probably Your Job)

What Are the Consequences of Data Loss?

This tongue in cheek white paper explores data loss from a contrarian point of view - exploring the top 7 shortcuts you can take to ensure that you lose your data. And since a fundamental responsibility of any information technology professional, as well as any C-level executive, is to ensure that the data upon which any company is created is protected - scrupulously following these shortcuts should also ensure that you lose not only your data but your job as well.

93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster, filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately. (National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)

The consequences of data loss are dire; here is a sampling of just a few statistics related to the impact of data loss on business:

7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data  

1. Ignore Hardware Failure

Hardware failure is the leading cause of data loss; thus ignoring hardware failure is the most important shortcut you can take in order to lose data. You have several choices with respect to taking this shortcut. The most straightforward technique to lose your data is to imply ignore that hardware failure can occur and simply not backup your systems and data. Of course, that’s a bit crass - there are more subtle ways to ensure data loss.

Another age-old option to help you lose your data is to use tape as your backup medium. With the high failure rates associated with tape, sooner or later you’re assured that you’re going to need to recover your data and not be able to do so.

A creative technique to ensure you will eventually lose your data is to use your SAN or NAS storage device as both the source of the backup and the target of a backup. Note that I’m not referring to snapshots in between physical transfers of data off the SAN or NAS; I’m talking about using your SAN and NAS for primary storage and for backup storage exclusively.

In this chapter we’re going to explore the 7 shortcuts to losing your data one-by-one. We’re going to do so by discussing each of these causes of data loss from the perspective of paths. In each section, we’ll first discuss the path associated with the shortcut to losing your data. As illustrated in the picture to the right, this shortcut is designed not only to facilitate your losing your data - but to put you on the fast track for early retirement.

*FACTS*

94% of companies suffering from a catastrophic data loss do not survive - 43% never reopen and 51% close within two years. (University of Texas)

 30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year and 70% fail within five years. (Home Office Computing Magazine)

77% of those companies who do test their tape backups found back-up failures. (Boston Computing Network, Data Loss Statistics) 

7 out of 10 small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year. (DTI/Price waterhouse Coopers)

 96% of all business workstations are not being backed up. (Contingency Planning and Strategic Research Corporation)

 50% of all tape backups fail to restore. (Gartner)  

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iPad and TV apps from ABC, TBS and HBO

I'm having an app-tacular winter season thanks to my iPad and TV apps from ABC, TBS and HBO. Not only is the video quality fantastic, but also having some of my favorite shows available with a touch of the screen - especially the entire HBO library (sadly, with the exception of '80s classics Dream On and First and 10) - is causing me to rethink the future of television. After living through the great TV scare of 2011 (i.e., the threat of losing FX from DirecTV earlier this month), I began to wonder if networks are an endangered species. There was once a time when I dreamed of being able to pay only for the networks I watch, but after contemplating dropping my satellite service if I had lost the ability to watch Sons of Anarchy, I realized that I regularly watch one hour of FX per week for roughly 10-15 weeks per year. The fact is, I don't need a network - I just need Kurt Sutter's awesome biker gang series. And I'd happily pay for subscriptions to individual series delivered via app or online to the creators of these shows rather than the companies that beam them to me. Of course, if this ever becomes a reality, I'll also need a 46-inch iPad to hang on my wall.
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Jobs That Died in 2011

Jobs That Died in 2011

The tech-savvy, newest generation of workers grew up hearing that the jobs they would hold as adults hadn't even been invented yet. No one mentioned that the jobs they had come to think of as permanent might become a thing of the past.  

This year has been a rough one for many industries. In fact, many fields were plagued with layoffs and budget cuts severe enough to threaten the continued existence of specific jobs within them. In time, we may look back and say that 2011 was the year that the following jobs began to die.

1. US Postal Service Carrier

"Get a government job," your parents told you. "Government jobs are secure. You'll get a pension, and they can never, ever fire you." This belief might no longer be true. The US Postal Service has had a famously bad year.

According to stories in Money and The Washington Post, in order to make a $5.5 billion annual payment to its retiree healthcare fund, the Postal Service has considered canceling Saturday delivery, closing post offices and laying off some of its 280,000 workers.

Median Annual Pay for a Mail Carrier: $48,300
Median Hourly Pay: $23.20
Education: High school diploma

2. Real Estate Agents

Real estate, formerly the favorite second job of actors and parents returning to work, is no longer such a sure thing.

Al Halverson of Burien, Washington, a 30-year real estate industry veteran, says the money just isn’t what it used to be. “The buyers are coming out to buy at much lower prices,” he says. “That means Realtors are working more and making less. The million-dollar houses are now $450,000 or $500,000.” Homes selling for half the price means a big pay cut for commission-based agents’ earnings.

Median Annual Pay for a Real Estate Agent: $75,500
Median Hourly Pay: $36.30
Education: Bachelor's degree plus real estate license

3. Video Store Clerk
Your college job may soon look as dated as that tape deck in your car. Blockbuster closed more than 200 stores in 2011, while Netflix blundered into a PR nightmare that made us long for the days of 50-cent rewind fees.

Median Hourly Pay for a Video Store Clerk: $9
Education: High school

4. Toll Collectors/Operators
Technology is a double-edged sword for some workers. On the one hand, computers, handhelds and all the assorted gadgets of the 21st century make jobs easier. On the other hand, ask any toll collector how he feels about E-ZPass.

Median Annual Pay for a Toll Collector: $36,800
Median Hourly Pay: $17.70
Education: High school

5. Stock Brokers
The good news is that many of the large financial services firms (such as Morgan Stanley) seem to have gotten back on their feet. The bad news is that many of them are doing it, in part, by laying off employees.

Still, don't cry too much for beleaguered stock brokers: Their salaries were slightly up in the third quarter of 2011, compared to last year, according to PayScale.com data.

Median Annual Pay for a Stock Broker: $58,400
Median Hourly Pay: $28.10
Education: Bachelor's degree

6. Newspaper Reporters
It took 15 years, but the Internet might finally be crushing the newspaper industry. Papers all over the country reported declining ad revenue and responded by laying off staff -- including folks in the newsroom.

Median Annual Pay for a Newspaper Reporter: $34,700
Median Hourly Pay: $16.70
Education: Bachelor's degree

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