How to Choose a Cloud Backup Solution
First, let’s differentiate between cloud backup and cloud storage. Cloud storage is simply storing data in an offsite facility. Typically this represents the working set of your data—the files you work with every day. The files you keep in the cloud are often copies of the files you work with. So if you modify a document, that modified version is what is stored in the cloud. Dropbox is a popular cloud storage solution. Another is Microsoft SkyDrive. These serve a useful function, but...
Read MoreWhy Cloud Backup?
In this age of cloud-based everything, it amazes me how many companies are still doing their backups either completely onsite, or to removable media that they take offsite. Despite the proven unreliability of tapes, these are still prevalant in many places. But what I’m seeing more of these days is removable and external hard drives being used for backups. Some companies are fairly regimented about removing them from the premises daily or sometimes weekly and even rotating them. For...
Read MoreGo Green = Save Green
Everyone these days is talking about going green, saving the planet and looking for ecologically responsible ways of getting their work done. But talk is cheap. In many cases cheaper than a lot of eco-friendly solutions. So while many folks have good intentions, few follow through and spend the extra money to recycle their recyclables or use eco-friendly products. But what most people don’t realize is that there are some eco-friendly alternatives that are actually less expensive...
Read MoreMondopad is Here
If you think the iPad is the coolest piece of technology to hit the streets, wait ’til you see the Mondopad. InFocus, the leading manufacturer of projectors and presentation equipment last week unveiled its latest teleconferencing product. The Mondopad is a 55-inch (diagonal) LCD touch-screen, video camera and on-board computer. It’s like a wall-sized iPad. Obviously you won’t be carrying this around to your meetings. But your meetings will take on a whole new perspective with...
Read MoreThe Real Cost of Paper
An average organization makes 19 copies of each document, spends $20 in labor to file each document, spends $120 in labor searching for each misfiled document, loses one out of every 20 documents and spends 25 hours recreating each lost document. (Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers). I’m sure you can think of better things to do with your time and money, not to mention the floor space occupied by those big ugly file cabinets. How safe are your files? You’ve spent years accumulating all that...
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