Posts Tagged ‘backups’

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 [...]

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

If you’re online, you’re connected to a data center somehow. All sizes of business today rely heavily on data centers for business continuity. By backing up their data to a remote location, companies mitigate their potential for loss due to a hack or other disastrous event.
But what is it really, a “data center?” What’s it [...]

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 [...]

Take deep breaths.
I can see you shaking after listening to the forecast of events which may in fact, threaten our very human existence.
The world is ending this afternoon.
And if by some miracle we make it through that rapturous event, we’re surely going to be gobbled up during the Zombie Apocalypse. This is not good news. [...]

It holds our kids’ pictures on the wall.
Tape delay allows us to see the Olympics at a decent hour.
Tape rescues a torn hem on your pants before you walk into that really important meeting where you have to be taken seriously.
But tape can get expensive. And we’re not talking about the Scotch brand that sits [...]

Global Data Vault will be featured in an upcoming case study which will be presented by FalconStor.
FalconStor Software provides comprehensive solutions that facilitate the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity, and simplicity. These solutions allow businesses of all sizes to overcome real-world data protection and storage challenges including dramatically increasing data, shrinking backup [...]