Posts under ‘Data Backup’

90% of businesses will experience a data loss within their first 5 years.
Ouch.
That’s called the school of hard-knocks. New businesses are so singularly focused on growth, that sometimes they overlook the insurance they need to maintain it in the event of a disaster. A significant data loss can derail any business, especially [...]

There will come a time in your computer life where you either have a computer crash, a large scale network disaster or simply have to reinstall an operating system. In any of those dreaded events, you will thank your lucky stars if you have these 12 things preserved, backed up and reinstalled before [...]

It’s one of an IT department’s and computer users worst nightmares: having to reinstall an operating system. You KNOW that it won’t be the same. You’ll lose personalized settings. You’ll spend hours updating drivers. You’ll overwrite files. It will be messy. You will not be a nice person. If you’re doing it for [...]

North Texas experienced a rare event this week.
An earthquake. Strange for these parts but it was

Choosing a backup solution is a commitment. Switching services, or worse, losing data, can be painful and costly so getting it right the first time is essential to the bottom line. Here’s real advice on what to expect when shopping for your solution:
1. Tape is great for backing up – if

A recent study, sponsored by Intel, provides interesting data about laptops that are lost each year in the United States. The study included data from 329 private and public companies. The participating organizations ranged in size from 1,000 to 75,000 employees. The average company lost

GDV wants to know: What’s the worst consequence you’ve suffered after losing data a computer crash or hacking?
A recent study by a leading online backup provider indicated data loss is on the rise. 48 percent of American small businesses (between 2 and 20 employees) had experienced data loss, up 6 percent

Everyday people are becoming more and more digital from photos, scanned documents for paperless offices and computer files, our appetite for electronic mediums is growing by leaps and bounds. And with that growth is an ever growing importance protecting that information. Businesses can be destroyed by natural disaster if an appropriate means of backing up [...]

A big thank you to Dave Casey and UC Radio. I sat down last week and had a great conversation about data protection, disaster recovery and offsite data storage and the implications for unified communications with Dave. We covered the recent evolution of the technology available as well as key developments we expect to have [...]