What Is the Difference Between File, Application, and Image Backup?
by Nathan.Fouarge on Nov 21, 2024, 11:15:00 AM
When managing backups, it is important to understand your options. Backups come in several forms - file backups, application backups, and Disaster Recovery or image backups - each designed to protect different types of data in different ways. Let's break down the key differences and s …
5 Helpful Tactics for Better Backup (and Restore)
by Nathan.Fouarge on Jun 19, 2024, 10:06:00 AM
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, data is at the heart of everything we do. From customer records and financials to medical images and project files, nearly every process in a modern business depends on having data available, intact, and accessible when you need it.
What Do You Mean OneDrive Isn’t Backup?
by Nathan.Fouarge on Jun 12, 2024, 12:30:00 PM
For years now, more and more people have been relying on “the cloud” to store and access their files—whether that’s Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure cloud services, or any of the many other file syncing and sharing platforms available. Notice that we’re tal …
How Ransomware Has Changed the Way We Think About Backup
by Nathan.Fouarge on Apr 17, 2024, 11:57:52 AM
Backup used to be a way to get your data back when a hard drive failed or a system outlived its purpose. That is, in most cases, you could restore data from a backup made a day or two earlier with little or no data loss. This led to backup strategies that, for example, set retention t …
Deploy and Configure Backup Remotely
by Nathan.Fouarge on Dec 3, 2020, 2:20:02 PM
Employees are increasingly working from remote locations, thus creating new security vulnerabilities. Monitoring and managing the data generated by these off-site workers is an entirely new challenge as data becomes more widely distributed across home offices, branch locations, and mo …
Preparing to Sign a Cyberinsurance Policy
by Nathan.Fouarge on Mar 17, 2020, 5:44:57 AM
Now you’ve read a little about cyber-insurance, and the challenges you might face. But don’t dismiss it just yet. There are substantial reasons to enter into a Cyberinsurance policy. Cyber insurance is there to provide resources when all of your defenses have failed, at a potentially …
What is Cyberinsurance?
by Nathan.Fouarge on Mar 2, 2020, 5:30:00 AM
Ransomware continues to make headlines. The progress of businesses, schools, and government agencies comes to a grinding halt for perhaps hours, often for days. This phenomenon, among other things, has brought a new popular term into the IT lexicon - Cyber insurance. What is it? Do yo …
Make Your Backup Solution Disaster Proof
by Nathan.Fouarge on Aug 28, 2018, 1:03:25 PM
We've seen Mother Earth throw some pretty big challenges at people lately. From the biggest wildfire in California's history, a 7.0 earthquake in Indonesia, more than 27 tornadoes ripping through Iowa, and Hawaii with a recently erupting volcano and now a Hurricane.
What is Virtual Machine Replication?
by Nathan.Fouarge on Oct 16, 2014, 9:31:57 AM
Let's take a deep dive into one of the facets of virtual machine protection called virtual machine replication (also called virtual replication) and what it can do for a business. The first question that may come to mind is, “What is virtual machine replication?” On a very simple leve …
Why Physical and Virtual Machine Backup Just Makes Sense
by Nathan.Fouarge on Oct 15, 2014, 8:21:57 AM
While virtualization can make sense in the small business world, not everyone can virtualize all of their data. Virtualization projects take planning, resources, and, most importantly, time to complete the migration. During this transition period, while you are in the process of movin …
