[Dataloss] time to name names (was Re: MORE BNY (Mellon Corp) Tapes lost)

[Corcoran, Michele]

Let's say we do look at the commercial carrier, and the carrier offers insurance against loss and the customer either chooses the insurance or waives the insurance, most commercial carriers will make insurance available, offered with disclosure that if a package's worth is more than insurance will cover the carrier can refuse to carry the package, based on what the customer has disclosed.  Interesting....

Michele Corcoran
647-6870
University of Michigan
ITCS/ITCom





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Subject: [Dataloss] time to name names (was Re: MORE BNY (Mellon Corp) Tapes lost)



: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_570347.html
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: "The tape was being carried by a commercial carrier ... and was lost in
: transit," said Ron Sommer, at the bank's Downtown offices. "It was
: ground transportation delivery, and it didn't reach its destination."

The amount of data loss incidents due to backup media being lost in
transit is disgusting. While everyone looks to the oragnizations like BNY
for these incidents, they need to disclose which commercial carriers are
losing the data like this.

I want to see the data and determine if a specific carrier or service is
primarily at fault here if that is where the blame lies.
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