Nathan.Fouarge

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What Do You Mean Dropbox / Onedrive / Google Drive isn’t Backup?

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I am seeing more and more people embracing ‘The Cloud’ to store their files, be it Dropbox, Onedrive, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Amazon Cloud, or any of the other file syncing services out there. Notice I say file syncing services and not cloud backup services. File syncing services have …

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Why Should I Look at Virtualization for My Small Business?

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Virtualization is one of those hot buzzwords that everyone talks about, but how does it really fit into the small business world? When you mention virtualization most people think about huge large racks for servers virtualizing hundreds of virtual machines. They really do not think ab …

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Not Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan Could Cost You Everything

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Disaster recovery planning is a very large topic, with just one part being about backing up and recovering your data. To give you a real life example of what I mean by saying that data backup and recovery is just part of an overall disaster recovery plan, I will refer to a recent post …

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Schrödinger’s Backup: The Good and Bad of Backup

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Photo credit: 'No Matter' Project You have most likely not heard of the concept of Schrödinger’s backup that has been coined in IT, but many people are running this experiment without even knowing it. It states: “The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted.” To …

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