5 Keys for Full Recovery in the Cloud

The cloud is a natural solution for disaster recovery, but careful consideration must be given before entrusting your data to a sky-high backup repository. Can you recover workloads from the cloud? How well does it scale? What’s the nature of its billing system? Is its infrastructure secure? And will it offer complete protection? While cloud computing is a familiar term, its definitions can vary greatly. So when it comes to online backup, the... [Read More...]

Encryption and Authentication

Messages sent across a network often contain sensitive information, such as credit card numbers. Unscrupulous people might try to intercept these messages. Preventing the interception is not always possible because the message might pass through nodes that are not under the control of the sender or the receiver. For security, some mechanism must be in place so that intercepted messages are useless to the interceptor. Encryption refers... [Read More...]

Microsoft Office 365

Office 365, gives professionals and small businesses a subscription service that lets them work from anywhere using familiar-feeling Web-enabled applications. Combined with hosted versions of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync, Office 365 is designed to enable users to share, collaborate, and communicate in the cloud. In testing during the beta, it was found that the tools worked well across the board, and expect that many people who use Office on desktop... [Read More...]

Hurricane Season is Here. Do You Have a Data Backup Plan in Place?

Hurricane Season is Here.  If your business doesn’t yet have an adequate data backup plan in place, you’re flirting with disaster. The hurricane season started June 1 and runs through November 30.  Tropical or subtropical cyclones, however, can form at any time.Not sure if your small business needs a disaster data backup plan? Consider that Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 60 percent of Mississippi’s small businesses. Of the 18,700 businesses... [Read More...]

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