Moving your data offsite is a big investment and probably a big culture shift for your company. So, how do you know you’re ready?
The fact that you’re even reading this blog means you’re at least considering the move. You might be asking yourself what the catalyst for the move should be? Should it be based on the size of your company or the size of your data?
[Read More]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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Tencent to launch international version of free 10TB storage service. New photo-sharing app coming soon to US (via Pando Daily)
By Hamish McKenzie On November 18, 2013Tencent, China’s largest Internet company, will release an international version of its 10TB cloud storage product next year, and within the coming weeks it’ll launch a new photo-sharing app in the US, according…
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. 😉
What was the first storage device you ever used? I guess the most accurate answer for me would be the 5 1/4 floppy disk. If you’re really young, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about, but Google it. It will do you some good.
Anyhow, data storage has always been a big thing, even when the Internet was totally different from how he know it today. From the punch cards and magnetic tapes of the old days, we now have USB sticks of all shapes and sizes, not to mention cloud storage.
And of course, what more humorous way to take a look at all these types of data storage than to inject a little bit of Star Trek into the scenario?
Enter Data on Data.
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