Hewlett Packard has launched the
HP Data Protector
Notebook Extension offering continuous backup and restore protection for data help on mobile devices. The Data Protector
software had previously not covered mobile workers using
laptops, but will now minimise the harm caused by a
hard drive failure, theft, or any other cause of data loss.
The software can be used on a number of mobile devices, including
netbooks, and works by sending any changes to documents back to a central data vault. Laptops do not have to be
online for the software to work, as the software will save any changes made on a
PC without a network connection in a local repository until it has
internet access.
Hewlett Packard estimate that the typical cost of each data loss incident is £1,800 – a cost which it believes will prompt may
laptop PC users to use the software. The PC manufacturer claims that the number of employees using laptops is rising rapidly, but
laptop users rarely back up their data according to HP as a result of being on the move. Licenses for the HP Data Protector Notebook Extension are available from £26 per user, with discounts for those buying in bulk.