We are often asked: What’s wrong with using one of the free anti-virus products, such as AVG or Avast? Why do you want to sell us an AV product that costs money? Well, let us start by making it clear that we make no money from anti-virus products. Because they are freely available from the [...]
If ever there was a time to get serious about disaster recovery (DR), it’s now. Australia, New Zealand and Japan have literally had a disastrous several months. Major floods, fires and earthquakes and tsunamis have destroyed many lives and properties, but the unsung story is all the businesses that lost everything – all their precious [...]
How often are you able to run your backups? How long does each backup take to complete? Is it acceptable for a single backup to occur daily or weekly with the probability of losing a full day or weeks’ worth of work? Can the server handle multiple backups being run daily? Can your data be [...]
We all love happy snaps. They let us enjoy reliving a moment, the beauty of an instant captured. Snapshot backups are very similar. Taken at a moment in time, they enable us to return to that point in our computer state. Backups exist to preserve valuable data against computer failure. For this reason, file-based backups [...]