People often ask me for advice on how to protect their home and very small business computers. The truth is, safety has no size limitations. Hackers will just as willingly go into your personal bank account as your business account. The only difference is business owners are generally more willing to spend some money to […]
Managed Data Backups
You’ve seen the TV ad where the man tells his wife he’s going to back up their computer. He configures the backup so quickly that he has time to go out and have an event-filled day. The wife returns, surprised to find him preparing dinner. What they don’t tell you is the days, weeks or […]
The Cost of Free Software
Something I hear frequently from friends and clients is that they don’t want to pay for software. And why should they? With all the enticing open source and free software apps available, not to mention all the free Cloud services, why would anyone want to pay for software? I won’t give you the “you get what […]
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 […]
Why 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 […]