How much is your intellectual property worth?
Determining Value in order to Budget for Protection. Intrusion alarms for elevators and doors and motion detectors for after hours. These are just two of the many security devices businesses employ in order to protect their assets. Computer, office furniture and more are costly to replace. Yet, these items are replaceable without very much difficulty. [...]
What to Look for in Online Backup
Perhaps the best feeling in the world is the feeling that comes with knowing you are protected. Whether that protection comes in the form of security or insurance it is just nice to know that you are covered from the things that can go wrong in everyday life. When it comes to your personal computer [...]
How fast can you recover from a data disaster?
Small and medium businesses often overlook the cost of recovering from a disaster when implementing their data storage and recovery plans. More often than most people would care to admit, critical data backups are stored to physical media, with little or no contingency plan in case of major disaster. If these same companies were to [...]
Multiple File Versions Will Simplify Your Daily Computing Life
Most of the time, when people talk about the need for an effective backup strategy, we’re bombarded with sensationalistic threats of hard drive crashes, hackers, viruses, and other “scorched earth” scenarios where 5 or 6 years of your life are wiped out in an instant. But of course, these all seem like far-out situations that [...]
Take Precautions Before Working on your Computer
From time to time, it may become necessary for you to open the casing of your machine and work on the internal components. This can be either for a routine cleaning of built-up dust, or to replace/upgrade/install components. However, too many people seem to forget that integrated circuits are very sensitive (and sometimes dangerous) electronic [...]
The Cloud is More Secure Than Tape
A recent article in Readwriteweb made some good points about why physical backup media such as tapes, DVDs and external hard drives are no longer a viable means of performing backups. On May 29 of this year, the National Archives issued a public statement disclosing that a 2TB Western Digital MY BOOK external hard drive [...]
Online Backup Storage
Everybody that owns a computer needs to have an online backup storage provider. Why? Think about how many irreplaceable files you currently have on your computer. Right now you probably have document files for work, pictures of you and your family, and maybe even some music files for your iPod. What would you do if [...]