recover quickly after a natural disaster

Cloud benefits: Recover quickly after a natural disaster

Calamities such as severe hurricanes and earthquakes usually grind communities and the businesses within them to a prolonged halt. Many data-reliant companies that had the foresight to use backups would still end up folding because they kept their storage on-site or within the reach of the natural disaster. The key to surviving such catastrophic circumstances is to have backups in a safe place: the cloud. Here’s why: [...]

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When will your business need a server?

There are many types of server programs. The most common are file servers, database servers, web servers, email servers, print servers, app servers, and game servers. When you consider that one server device can hold many server programs, and that one server program can serve multiple clients, that device has to be considerably more powerful than your consumer-grade PC. This also means that a server device (hereafter called “server”) is more expensive, consumes more electricity, and will require more monitoring, maintenance, and repair than regular computers down the line.

Question is, when will your business need that much more power? Here are a few cases where the use of a server is warranted: [...]

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World Backup Day: How to secure your cloud backups

World Backup Day is an important reminder to businesses that no one is immune to the risk of data loss, whether it's due to a natural disaster, a cyberattack, or simply human error. That's why it's so important to have a robust cloud backup solution in place and to make sure those backups are secure all the time. In this blog, we'll discuss five tips for keeping your cloud backups safe and secure. [...]

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