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Is Your Backup Just an Expensive Paperweight?

Is Your Backup Just an Expensive Paperweight?

Be honest: Do you have a real plan for the day your server goes dark? We're not talking about a little glitch—we mean a full, sudden stop due to a failed disk, a nasty strain of ransomware, or an accidental keyboard slip. For too many businesses, the "plan" is just that dusty external drive they plug in at closing time. This isn't a strategy; it's a prayer, and one that will go unheard when you need it most.

That false comfort is your biggest IT blind spot, because if a simple copy-paste job was enough, we wouldn't see businesses vanish after a single data incident. Stop crossing your fingers and let's get you a recovery plan that actually works.

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The Absolute Basics of Data Backup

The Absolute Basics of Data Backup

How much data do you think your business stores? How much of that data does your business need to operate? Regardless of your answers to these questions, one thing is for certain: you need to take action to ensure your business’ data is never put in harm’s way needlessly. It should be able to survive in the face of great adversity, whether it’s from a fire, weather incident, cyberattack, or simple user error.

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If You Don’t Optimize for Uptime, You’re Gonna Have a Bad Time

If You Don’t Optimize for Uptime, You’re Gonna Have a Bad Time

When it comes to your business’ IT, there’s a nasty word called “downtime” that’s always referred to in a negative way, and for good reason. Downtime can be a business killer if it’s not monitored for and avoided. To help you understand just how dire downtime can be, we want to compare it to its natural enemy: uptime.

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What Can We Learn from the Library of Alexandria’s Destruction?

What Can We Learn from the Library of Alexandria’s Destruction?

Nowadays, data is one of the most valuable assets we have. However, if we’re being honest, whenever we say “data,” what we’re referring to is knowledge. In this context, data has always been something that society has valued.

Consider the Library of Alexandria, widely regarded as the first library to transcend cultural prejudices and collect information from multiple civilizations. Its collection must have been breathtaking, but it isn’t around any longer. All that data, gone.

How likely is it that your business could experience similar data loss, and more critically, how prepared are you for that eventuality?

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Regular Data Backups Work Wonders for Eliminating Downtime

Regular Data Backups Work Wonders for Eliminating Downtime

How much do you know about your business’ data backup infrastructure? Do you know how often data backups occur, or if they’re occurring at all? Regular backups are the key to a successful, sustained business, and multiple backups per day are your “Get out of jail free” card when you’re facing a data loss incident.

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Listen, You Need to Take Data Backup Seriously

Listen, You Need to Take Data Backup Seriously

Backup is a decidedly unsexy topic to discuss, but it’s important nonetheless. You can’t trust that your files will always be there—not unless you take action to ensure they’re well-protected and preserved for when you need them most. While you’re busy with other parts of running your business, you need to know with certainty that your files are safe, and we can offer that.

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Celebrate World Backup Day by Focusing on Your Backup Preparations

Celebrate World Backup Day by Focusing on Your Backup Preparations

Your business runs on data. You keep customer information, invoices, project files, inventory and much more. If you were to lose it, you face a myriad of problems from hits to your reputation to major downtime. Today is World Backup Day, so we thought it would be good to highlight just how important having a feature-rich and reliable backup strategy is.

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Three Business Issues Modern Technology Has Solved

Three Business Issues Modern Technology Has Solved

Business is all about disaster mitigation and damage control. You never know exactly when something bad is going to happen, but you have to be ready for it when it does. Today, we want to discuss a couple ways that smart technology can help you in specific situations where your business might otherwise falter.

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What to Know About Data Backups (Get Started Today)

What to Know About Data Backups (Get Started Today)

Your business needs to consider business continuity if it wants to outlast the competition, and to do so, you need a data backup plan. Let’s look at some steps you can take today to protect your small business from potentially disastrous situations.

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Three Easy Ways to Start Making Security a Priority Today

Three Easy Ways to Start Making Security a Priority Today

Security is one of the more worrisome parts of running a business, and it doesn’t matter what size your organization is either. Whether you’re a small startup or a large enterprise, security is still going to be paramount. But it doesn’t have to be confusing; in fact, we have three simple strategies you can start implementing today to help you move your security infrastructure in the right direction.

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6 Reasons for Tape Backup (and 1 Huge Reason to Replace It)

6 Reasons for Tape Backup (and 1 Huge Reason to Replace It)

Tape backup used to be the go-to backup solution for businesses, but it’s since lost its luster in favor of digital backup solutions. You might still find some uses for it, if you find a good enough excuse. Today, we want to examine why you might still use tape backup, even though a Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) solution far outshines it.

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What Happens When Even the Backups Fail?

What Happens When Even the Backups Fail?

If the Internet has made one thing in popular culture abundantly clear, nostalgia is a potent force. It makes us look back on our formative years to experiences that shaped who we are today. One such example is music, but what would you say if we told you that this music could disappear forever?

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You Should Be Aware of These Two Productivity Pitfalls

You Should Be Aware of These Two Productivity Pitfalls

Technology has empowered us to achieve more than ever, but with that progress comes increased expectations for everyone. This means greater productivity, and the pressure to perform can be relentless at times, making it crucial to find efficient ways to manage our tasks. Unfortunately, there is a natural limit to how much we can accomplish, and certain challenges can push us to that limit faster. Today, we want to explore two of the most common productivity pitfalls.

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Think All Your Data is Backed Up? Think Again

Think All Your Data is Backed Up? Think Again

Data backup is the glue that holds businesses together during difficult times. Despite this, many employees are still unclear on how the whole system works and what data gets backed up. Today, we want to explore this topic and clarify what typically occurs during the data backup process.

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The 3-2-1 Rules Over Data Redundancy

The 3-2-1 Rules Over Data Redundancy

We cover data backup and disaster recovery quite a bit, and you might be familiar with some of the terms and strategies we discuss. Today, we’re taking a deeper dive into the 3-2-1 rule and its crucial role in your business’ disaster recovery plan. Let's explore how the 3-2-1 rule can strengthen or weaken your data infrastructure.

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BDR is the Cheat Code to Business Resiliency

BDR is the Cheat Code to Business Resiliency

There is an almost comical laundry list of problems that all businesses should be prepared for, but what’s not funny whatsoever is what happens when you fail to do so. The term “BDR” is often used as an umbrella term to describe what kind of preparation your organization needs, and today, we want to dive into some of the details that you should know.

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How to Tell Your Hard Drive is About to Fail

How to Tell Your Hard Drive is About to Fail

Digital storage is one part of computing that has seen astronomical growth over the past several decades, and with the solid state drive (SSD) more affordable than ever, you have to wonder how well your old hard disk drive (HDD) is holding up. Despite the cost difference between the two, the HDD is a viable option, albeit a mechanical one that is prone to breakdown over time.

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It’s Not Worth Having a Backup Solution if it Doesn’t Follow These Fundamental Rules

It’s Not Worth Having a Backup Solution if it Doesn’t Follow These Fundamental Rules

We focus pretty heavily on data backup as an important solution that all businesses should use, and for good reason. It can be all the difference between losing your business’ future or preserving it. We know you don’t like to hear it, but investing in a proper data backup solution is well worth the cost, even if you never have to use it.

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Having Solid Backup Practices Can Save Your Business

Having Solid Backup Practices Can Save Your Business

Data backup is something that all businesses need in some capacity. The reasoning for this is simple: you can never predict the future, so your business’ life is never guaranteed… unless, of course, you plan for the worst. Today we want to share with you some best practices as they relate to data backup and disaster recovery, practices which we hope will give you the confidence that you can recover from even the worst-case scenarios.

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Strong Backup Practices is as Easy as Counting to Three

Strong Backup Practices is as Easy as Counting to Three

Individuals are increasingly understanding the value of their data, and that is a good thing. Unfortunately, a lot of small and medium-sized businesses are operating today without any type of data backup protecting their business’ data, and that, of course, is bad. It is important that if you don’t have a dedicated data backup and recovery strategy in place, that you work to fix that immediately. Today we’ll tell you why. 

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