Your Data Can Come Back: Online Protection Service
Available
The boomerangs flying over the Homewood campus on
Friday were sending a message to arriving freshmen: The
papers, research, music, photographs and other important
data that they were about to pile onto their computers
would always be able to come back, even if their hard
drives crashed, thanks to software that Johns Hopkins is
now offering to all faculty, staff and students.
IT @ Johns Hopkins recently signed an agreement with
U-Vault, an online data protection service that is powered
by redBoomerang. (The attention-getting demonstration was
courtesy of champion throwers from the U.S. Boomerang
Association.)
U-Vault provides secure online data storage for
Microsoft Windows systems through a Johns Hopkins Internet
connection, or any available working Internet connection.
After a brief setup, selection and scheduling process, the
software runs automatically in the background on the
protected system, based on the time schedule chosen by the
user, as long as a working Internet connection is
available.
Initially, all folders and files chosen for backup
protection are encrypted and transmitted via the Internet
to a secure server, using compression technology. Upon
subsequent use, only data that has changed since the last
backup is transmitted. Data is securely backed up on a
server at an off-site location that only the user can
access, with an ID and password. Each account receives a
backup storage quota of 10GB of compressed data, which can
store up to 20GB of uncompressed data.
Students who purchase Windows laptop systems through
the IT @ Johns Hopkins Mobile Computing Program for 2006 or
2007 will be eligible to receive the service free for four
years. For more information about this offering, go to:
www.it.jhu.edu/desktop/mcp/students/
u-vault.html.
The cost for the data protection service for others is
$99 per year, and it can be purchased through U-Vault's Web
site at
www.u-vault.com/jh.
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