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When Good Backups Go Bad: Data Recovery Failures and What to Do About Them

When Good Backups Go Bad: Data Recovery Failures and What to Do About Them

Successfully backing up critical systems and data is key to disaster recovery and business... Read more

14 May, 2012
Cloud, Appliance or Software: How to Decide Which Backup Solution is Best for Your Small or Mid-Size Organization

Cloud, Appliance or Software: How to Decide Which Backup Solution is Best for Your Small or Mid-Size Organization

Successfully backing up critical systems and data is key to disaster recovery and business... Read more

14 May, 2012
Optimal Resource Allocation for Disaster Recovery

Optimal Resource Allocation for Disaster Recovery

Two key elements in disaster recovery are backing up data at remote sites and reliability of services by virtualization. To... Read more

18 October, 2010
Cloud Backup and Recovery

Cloud Backup and Recovery

Application and data availability can make or break a business. These days backing up to the Cloud is a simple, cost effective way to get... Read more

1 July, 2010
Asus Transformer Pad TF300T

Asus Transformer Pad TF300T

The Transformer Pad implements a number of cost-saving measures and consequently lacks the sparkle of the Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Still, the Pad is significantly cheaper than the Prime, so you may well be prepared to accept the trade-off. Read more

22 May, 2012 by Sandra Vogel
Windows 8 Developer Preview

Windows 8 Developer Preview

...Microsoft has built many of the Windows Live services into Windows 8, backing up state and settings into the cloud, along with user tiles. After... Read more

13 September, 2011 by Simon Bisson
Ten Linux apps that need to raise their game

Ten Linux apps that need to raise their game

...there are tools such as luckyBackup that do a good job of backing up a Linux client. The key word, of course, is "client". Bacula... Read more

29 June, 2011 by Jack Wallen

Worried your cloud provider will go bust? Seven ways to protect your business

...primary and back-up servers, organisations should have their own system of backing up data sent to the cloud. This can either be done through... Read more

8 September, 2011 by Shelley Portet
Windows Small Business Server 'Aurora'

Windows Small Business Server 'Aurora'

...view lets you set up updates, as well as providing options for backing up your server to an external USB drive. Microsoft recommends using two... Read more

3 August, 2010 by Simon Bisson
MailStore Home 7.0.1

MailStore Home 7.0.1

...and Windows Mail. MailStore Home offers a simple three step process for backing up your e-mail accounts. Once you've downloaded and installed it... Read more

22 May, 2012
SmartSync Pro 4.0

SmartSync Pro 4.0

SmartSync Pro is a universal tool for backing up and synchronizing your important data to your local drive, external flash... Read more

21 May, 2012
Intego Personal Backup 10.6.4

Intego Personal Backup 10.6.4

...bootable backups and synchronizations. Personal Backup protects Mac users from disasters by backing up files regularly. Users can create custom scripts to meet their precise... Read more

15 May, 2012
WinZip 16.5.10095

WinZip 16.5.10095

...and post files to Facebook directly from the WinZip window! Need help backing up your work? WinZip Pro provides an automated data backup facility to... Read more

11 May, 2012
Image for Windows 2.71

Image for Windows 2.71

...a drive image backup and restore software package that is used for backing up all of your hard drive data to other media or external... Read more

1 May, 2012

New backup platform mixes local and cloud

...arrays. In other words, he argues that you get the advantages of backing up to and restoring from both cloud and local data. Yes, I... Read more

5 April, 2012

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