Like clockwork, there are a few things we can all set our watches to this time of year: Halloween fades rapidly into the holiday “season” (trees are up and carols are playing in the mall before the trick-or-treat candy is finished), and Gartner is on hand to tell us what to look forward to in [...] [...more]
Data disaster recovery plans (DRPs) have always been controversial, at least when it comes down to the cost; upfront capital and resources must go into the system, and it’s never easy to convince a skeptical or hesitant manager to invest in a plan that may or may not ever have a return on investment, particularly [...] [...more]
Once a business or organization has made the decision to move its key business processes and IT infrastructure to the cloud, they often do so with concerns about the potential risks involved. A move to the cloud transfers serious control of a client’s privacy, availability, security, data retention and protection to the cloud service provider. [...] [...more]
Cloud computing is more than just technology’s latest catch phrase; cloud technology is everywhere, being used directly and indirectly by enterprises, SMB’s government organizations, and other business with hosted . application platforms. In fact, it has been for some time now, and there will be no turning back. The latest.information on backup and disaster recovery [...] [...more]
When it comes to securing your company’s data, how do you know if the method you’ve chosen for the task is always going to be reliable? Discovering flaws in your data backup system after disaster strikes is akin to locking the barn door after the horse has bolted. Every day, technology to [...] [...more]
Not everyone in the IT industry is tossing their hat into the cloud ring just yet, but they should be. What was a vague and relatively unfamiliar term in the technology world just two years ago, cloud computing is fast becoming the go-to answer for small and midsized businesses (SMBs) for data backup, recovery, archiving [...] [...more]
Tips for evaluating and implementing cloud computing technologies. How in the world does a chief information officer or information technology professional cope with the challenge of delivering solutions for the second decade of the 21st century when they are saddled with 1980s technology? Add the issues surrounding reduced budgets and the ongoing knock on IT [...] [...more]
. Hardly a week goes by without a news story where an outage impacts key online services. . Twitter has had a series of well-documented resilience issues and more recently, errors have impacted Skype’s services too. Typically, when a tech issue hits a large tech company, they are up and running again pretty swiftly. However, [...] [...more]
Some cloud backup and data recovery software is designed to please some businesses all the time, while others can please all businesses some times, but can one cloud please all businesses, all the time? To many companies, the sky seems to be the limit with cloud computing. However, they are bound to be disappointed if [...] [...more]
While companies with unlimited storage, tiers of redundant servers, and high-speed WAN links may want to provide unlimited online storage for their users, the rest of us have to contend with budgets, hardware limitations, and bandwidth that is never enough. Combine this with users’ tendencies to use PSTs, hard drives that crash, and the chance [...] [...more]
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