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Bruce Backa

Bruce Backa is the founder of CriticalSites. A noted business leader and consultant in the IT Industry, he has acted as chief architect, technologist, and project manager for assignments involving large scale Technology and Implementation Strategies. He has held the positions of Director of Technology and Business Research for the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and Director of Technology for American International Group. Mr. Backa has been responsible for the architecture, implementation and management of a worldwide Client/Server networking infrastructure for a Fortune 10 company, with a platform of over 600 Servers connecting 10,000 users across 50 cities throughout North America and off shore. In 1994, he founded NTP Software, a provider of business solutions for Windows NT and Windows 2000. At the recent World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Mr. Backa was recognized as a technology pioneer. This follows a similar award from the National Computer Conference in 1974 where he was honored as a part of the Dartmouth College team that invented computer timesharing.
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Storage & Security
Journal: "Striking the
Right Balance" By Patrick Hynds; Bruce Backa  Storage is still one of
the most costly and
fastest-growing aspects
of everyone's network and
is likely to remain so
for some time. Every
network user is a storage
user. We're all part of a
community that shares the
costs and the benefits of
this expensive resource.... Feb. 27, 2006 03:45 PM Reads: 15,911 Replies: 2 | Where's the money? By Bruce Backa Remarkably, as we work
with clients we discover
that they rarely analyze
the component costs of
their operations. So let
me make this easy: the
bulk of the money is in
whatever you do for data
protection. But even if
you know this, have you
looked at the details of ... Dec. 14, 2005 11:45 AM Reads: 6,255 Replies: 3 | What's In Store For 2006? By Patrick Hynds; Bruce Backa  Okay, 2005 is over. Let's
get back to work...But
first, let's look at
what's new. Microsoft has
taken WinFS, its new file
system, out of the first
release of its next
operating system. The
story is that WinFS will
follow soon after the OS
releases. For most of us,
... Dec. 2, 2005 11:00 AM Reads: 12,351 Replies: 2 | Bruce Backa's Storage
Blog: The New Economics By Bruce Backa Tape used to be much
cheaper than on-line
storage. Not any more.
While it is still neither
infinite nor free (and
it's certainly not free
to manage), on-line
storage is pretty
inexpensive these days. A
smaller company needs
tapes for disaster
recovery (although
... Dec. 1, 2005 06:00 AM Reads: 7,822 | Information Security - No
Longer the Perennial
Afterthought By Patrick Hynds; Bruce Backa  Storage always seems to
come first in technical
discussions and security
seems to be the perennial
afterthought. This can be
considered reasonable
given how we shop for
things in general, namely
finding the thing that
meets our expectations
and then ensure it has
... Sep. 14, 2005 01:30 PM Reads: 11,604 Replies: 1 | A Quick Look at the
Coming Year in Storage... By Patrick Hynds; Bruce Backa  We (Patrick and Bruce)
are new to ISSJ. In a
future article, you'll
learn more about who we
are and why we are here.
In this issue, we thought
we would take a minute to
frame some of the
discussions that will go
on throughout the year. Jun. 17, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 10,071 | How to Avoid Creating a
Network Security Hole
with Your Windows
Server-Based App By Bruce Backa Nowadays it's quite
common for us to write
server-based
applications. These apps
differ from desktop
applications in many ways
- one of the most
important of which is how
they handle security. For
a desktop application,
security is easy. The
application runs in th... May. 20, 2005 11:00 AM Reads: 12,170 | BizTalk Server 2004
Technical Drilldown By Bruce Backa Come and join us for a
technical drilldown on
BizTalk Server 2004 -
including the new
features and toolsets
available to help you
solve Enterprise
Application Integration
(EAI), Business Process
Automation (BPA) and
Information Worker
Integration. Feb. 26, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 10,938 | End-to-End Application
Security By Patrick Hynds; Bruce Backa Last month (.NETDJ, Vol.
1, issue 12) we
demonstrated a simple
technique that allows you
to avoid storing
passwords in clear text,
making your .NET
applications more secure
and safer should they
somehow be compromised.
In this article, we want
to step back a bit a... Jan. 12, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,139 |
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