by technicalguy | Feb 20, 2018 | Cloud Backup |
World Backup Day 2018 is on March 31st, a Saturday. Are you ready? Will you be doing a backup of your critical data on Saturday? Me? Yes, I will be doing a backup, in fact for me it will be just “another backup”. I backup my laptop, which is my primary...
by technicalguy | Nov 2, 2017 | Cloud Backup, Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity, Non Profit / Charity |
For many non-profit organizations and businesses the upcoming holiday season is the busiest time of the year. A technology failure – of any kind, during your busiest season could make or break all the planning you have put in place. Of course you want to...
by technicalguy | Oct 30, 2017 | Cloud Backup, Non Profit / Charity |
It seems many non-profit organizations are still doing on-premise backups and spending significant costs for equipment and supplies. If you’re running on-premise backups then you have taken on the up-front cost of purchasing your backup infrastructure, supplies, and...
by technicalguy | Mar 27, 2017 | Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity, Ransomware |
Another ransomware survey that tells us that businesses haven’t got the message yet. Small business still think it won’t happen to them, so they’re not ready when it does. As the article quotes; “Every business is potentially a target. If you...
by technicalguy | Mar 20, 2017 | Cloud Backup |
Many businesses are using cloud based drives these days (think box.com or Microsoft’s One Drive or Google Drive). For small business and non profits they are an ideal way to store data so that it can be shared by a distributed work force. Just because it is in...
by technicalguy | Mar 9, 2017 | Cloud Backup, Small Business Backup |
The CloudPockets backup service can be a Hybrid Backup. What does that mean? What’s the difference between a Cloud Backup and a Hybrid Backup, and does it make any difference to you? As the saying goes; “There are backups – and then there are...
by technicalguy | Jan 14, 2017 | Ransomware |
Yet another news story this morning about a school hit with Ransomware and paying the $28,000 extortion fee. It’s not a matter of pay the ransom or lose files. A ransomware solution exists, right now, that will protect you and cost less than paying the...
by technicalguy | Dec 28, 2016 | Cloud Backup |
Do you know the 3-2-1 backup rule? It is a fundamental principle for protecting your data. Following the 3-2-1 backup rule will ensure you have good backup copies of your data to go to when a failure occurs in your organization.Learn it and plan for it up front and...
by technicalguy | Dec 12, 2016 | Cloud Backup |
If you organize files and folders it not only helps the company more easily find their files, it makes backups easier. How will you know what important files need to be backed up? You need a plan, a method to ensure your business files are backed up. Here’s what...
by technicalguy | Dec 6, 2016 | Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity |
It’s the phone call you don’t want to get. It’s something that companies and organizations say; “We’re careful, that won’t happen to us”. You don’t really plan for it but it’s more and more likely to occur:...
