Seagate’s i365 is holding a “Be the Hero” disaster recovery webinar on March 11, 2010 from 10:00-11:00 AM Pacific. This is oriented a bit more toward the enterprise than the SOHO user, but I thought I’d put the link here anyway. Disaster recovery is a useful thing to know about, after all. Here’s the copy from their registration page: If and when a disaster strikes you want to be the hero, … [Read more...]
Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Cyber Crime & Warfare
About a week ago I was approached by a representative of Backup Technology, a leading British firm providing online backup and data recovery services with an offer to write a guest post for the blog. I explained that I was happy to publish guest posts if they were relevant to the audience of small and home-office computer users and as long as the author’s affiliation with the company in question … [Read more...]
Studies Show Business Owners Confuse Backup with Disaster Preparedness
In the past few weeks, I’ve received news of two different surveys that reach similar conclusions: businesses are not as prepared to face disasters as they think they are. Here in California—where we have wildfires in the hot season, mudslides and flash floods in the rainy season, and earthquakes all year round—disaster preparedness is a common theme. But disaster preparedness is rather like … [Read more...]
Fireproof Backups
Making your hard drives more secure seems to be the trendy thing to do these days. Within the past couple of months, I've been contacted about two similar products for protecting your external hard drives from fire and water—not to mention spilled coffee. I haven’t had the chance to test either product myself, so I can’t give you a firsthand account, but it seemed worth mentioning them in case … [Read more...]
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