A new generation of automated backup solutions

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Aug 22, 20062 mins

Test center review: SonicWall’s CDP 1440i provides customers with a choice between disk and data vault storage. It’s the “first of what may be a new wave of personal and small-business automated backup solutions with optional off-site storage just a click away,” points out Brian Chee. “Even if you just use the internal hard disk, you can still … get a pretty darn nice restore system. Add the off-site storage, and you get truly inspired end-to-end backup-and-restore.” Still there are some capabilities Chee would like to see added. Read the full review.

The news beat: Salesforce.com integrates Google Adwords so that customers can manage those marketing campaigns through Salesforce’s CRM service. Sprint Nextel COO Len Lauer leaves the company while CEO Gary Forsee assumes control of operations. And Lenovo creates a new ‘Center of Excellence’ to monitor and improve its responsiveness to customers’ needs.

Best of the blogs: Dell batteries are not the only recall for IT this month. Microsoft’s Small Business Server R2, too, is being recalled, Oliver Rist reports in SMB IT. “In case you got your hands on it somehow and were thinking of upgrading — don’t.”

Gripe Line: Evergreen services clauses from the likes of Protection One (and countless others) that require customers to pay for services months after cancelling them raise the question “what can any of us do about the money traps companies are setting for us in their fine print?”