Life in fast pace is never easy. Following the technology evolution, prevalence of networked economy and the rush to paperless society, businesses and individuals in modern era are increasingly feeling difficulties to cope with the exponential data growth. Businesses, which are generating critical corporate and customer information each day, are under pressures to consolidate business information due to the authorities' corporate governance and audit compliance requirements, and also required to safeguard data losses against natural and human threats, such as natural disasters (earthquakes, floods, fires, etc.), prolonged power outages, terrorist attacks, internal and external sabotage, etc. Yet, their IT departments are facing the limited budget to deploy a full-scale failsafe solution, particular for operations spanning over multiple regions and offices. Moreover, the adoption of mobile workforce had spin off additional headache on collaborating and access control over critical information exchange. |