These days even the smallest of businesses, from the candy shop on the corner to the automotive repair facility down the street, generate massive amounts of data. If you are the owner of a small business, you might think you have no way to make use of that mass of...

Hackers and cyber criminals are a clever bunch, always adapting their approaches and fine-tuning their attacks. As firewalls go up and cyber defenses are shored up, computer-savvy criminals redouble their efforts, focusing on the weakest link in the chain to continue...

When your business sends its data and operations to the cloud, you will, once the migration completes, potentially have hundreds of business operations processed in the cloud each day. A poorly optimized cloud presence could end up costing your business dearly. This...

Cloud-based computing growth continues to expand as businesses reduce costs and improve efficiency with their IT infrastructure. With the benefits of scalability, flexibility, and enhanced security and performance, cloud technology continues to provide businesses with...

As everything we do gets increasingly linked to the Internet, malicious actors have more and more ways to gain access to our personal information. From your laptop's security settings to the open-access Wi-Fi at your favorite coffee shop, many points of entry are...

So far in this paper, we have covered 5 types of backup technology: File-level backups, block-level backups, complete database backups, granular database backups, and virtual machine image backups. We have covered a range of common disaster scenarios that each...

All of the technologies we have discussed so far operate internally to a system. They perform their backup and restore operations from the inside of a running machine. In the following sections we will explore some data protection technologies that operate externally...

You have a SQL server with a number of SQL databases running on it. It’s not a large server, but it provides hosting for your CRM, ERP, accounting, and time clock systems which employ a number of databases. Being accessed by both customers and staff, It is of course...

The one backup technology that can provide comprehensive restore while bridging the performance and capability gaps left open by file backups is the block-level backup. Block-level backup, as opposed to file-level backup, does not backup any files. Block-level backup...

File-level backups, or more simply “file backups” are exactly what they sound like: a backup of individual files. Files can be backed up to/from a desktop, server, network share, external drive, and so on. Any media or device with a file system can be backed up or...