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Product protects laptop, PC data
IBM last week released a new data-protection product that keeps a copy of files as changes are made, allowing users to dial back to recover any version of a document they want on local disks and on network servers.
IBM said its new software, called Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files, provides real-time data backup for laptops, PCs and file servers by continuously protecting information from computer viruses, file corruption, accidental deletion or theft of a laptop.
Continuous data protection (CDP), or time-addressable storage, saves all changes at the bit level, time-stamps them and moves them off to local or networked disk to be stored.
If a data restore is required, an end user or systems administrator...