Optical and SSD drives essential to business continuity, data protection
The costs of data backup and recovery are steadily rising as consumers and IT departments handle increasingly large volumes of information. While many rely almost exclusively on server-based solutions to store backups, they may be able to improve flexibility and...
PC market poised for rebound, but consumers must seek SSDs
The PC market has struggled recently due to consumer preference for lower-cost tablets and sophisticated smartphones, but it may be poised for a comeback in 2014. Users will increasingly return to laptops and desktops as they seek to finally upgrade older machines and...
External backups can guard against new hard drive exploit
A recent high-profile exploitation of cloud storage service Dropbox and blogging platform WordPress has made it possible for hackers to hijack a person’s hard drive for malware delivery. Users must be diligent and procure a backup medium such as a high-volume...
USB Flash drives not ideal for data archiving
Large enterprises typically have a number of redundancies in place to protect data in case copies become lost, erased or corrupted. Data storage best practices indicate that any information stored in the cloud should have at least one copy saved onto an on-premises...
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