With modern websites containing so much information, it’s crucial that you find a way to store and backup all that information. The best way to do this is to use the services of a data center. However, with the amount of data centers available, it can be challenging to find one that’s going to work well for you and give you the security and access that you want and need. So to help you in making this all-important decision, here are three qualities to look for in a reputable data center.
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Killer Big Data Startups Help Established Businesses Succeed
Today’s startups are disrupting otherwise established business models across a number of industries. With their innovation changing the way to get things done, founders are challenging current processes and finding ways to win at the incumbents’ own game. Several technologies and methodologies are helping businesses, new and old alike, reinvent the wheel and optimize their businesses in the process. These involve automation, big data, cloud technologies and the like.
Big data and automation startups help improve existing businesses by adding value to an already profitable operation. Such platforms also help improve business operations for those seeking improved profitability. After all, cloud services are meant to be scalable, which means providers can target any business from small to large enterprise.
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How To Follow the Fashion Data Trail Backward
The fashion industry is fascinating from a visual and productive standpoint, but a lot of the eventual intrigue comes from the clever use of marketing metrics. That holds true for most industries – that the numbers drive the output – but you would think that something like fashion, with its artistic bent, may be different.
However, this is not the case, as evidenced by the following five ways that you can follow the fashion data trail backwards, in turn finding out how close analysis leads the professional discourse along. [Read more…] about How To Follow the Fashion Data Trail Backward
Keep Your Data Backups Organized in the Cloud
Online CDN networks have grown in popularity because demand from webmasters has also grown. The need to serve large bouts of image/video media to millions of visitors in a day has become normal. Even smaller websites garnering hundreds-of-thousands of page views might still find this cloud delivery service helpful.
When talking about data backups, the cloud takes on a whole new role. The ability to quickly download and move files between computers comes at a tremendous advantage. Especially if you are working on different computers throughout the day. But how do you know that your data is kept securely on the server, or how will you know where to find everything?
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How NSA Hacked Yahoo, Google Datacenter Networks
The National Security Agency secretly broke into the network connections between datacenters belonging to Yahoo, Google and other companies to drink data direct from the firehose, as well as collect metadata about the Internet use of U.S. residents,…
Data Recovery Mission (Im)possible
Ever considered a career in the IT? If you think that our job is all about installing new software or fighting malicious viruses, read on for some compelling stories. There is actually more than meets the eye.
Before we start, do you think that your PC or any other data storage device is indestructible? Well, if you do, at some point you may end up realizing that you have just lost all your data, as the device got destroyed. Even despite the recent advancements in the field of data recovery, sometimes the users get just too creative. And we mean it – although we’ve been working in the IT field for quite a while and saw lots of weird things, some people do not cease to amaze us. So, we decided to compile a list of the most awesome, or just awesome, cases of data loss we had to face. Although we succeeded in most of them, sometimes that was just too difficult.
Sometimes Your PC won’t cooperate
Remember when your computer got lags and you were waiting forever while trying to open some important website? How about the error message popping out when you wanted to enter your company’s e-mail account? Well, we can all relate to that. Most people turn the computer off and just walk away. Indeed, this is a far better decision than hitting the PC, throwing it through the window, or even kicking it. Try to imagine, what damages you might do to your computer by doing this. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that the data losses may be so huge that any recovery would be a tall order. Even the best and the brightest data recovery professionals might not be able to save the data lost after a hard disk got destroyed. See the picture below to get the idea of what we faced and how mission impossible it was to recover the data from the totally massacred hard drive one of our hot-headed clients brought.
Cats’ Love for Laptops Is Not Mutual
Some time ago, we had a curious case of Mrs. Smith, a devoted cat lover. Her laptop just broke down. As it turned out, the device ceased to work after some mysterious substance was poured onto it. And, guess what! It wasn’t coffee or tea. Unfortunately, the beloved kitty mistook the PC for a tray. The good news is, we were able to recover the data, but the smell is still around. 😉