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Is it time to move to the cloud?

Is It Time to Backup Your Life into the Cloud?

Storing data in the cloud has become so cost-effective that you can almost think of it as being free. This is encouraging people in all walks of life to save space on their home machines with low-cost cloud backup. Given the ease and affordability…
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Is Your Cloud Backup Provider Reseller Friendly?

Cloud computing is becoming more sophisticated by the month. It’s an extremely convenient way for businesses and individuals to store and backup the voluminous amount of data that they contribute to on a daily basis. In addition to storing…
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Finding Secure Data Backup in Turbulent Times

As the internet advances and improves, the convenience of the cloud continues to be utilized for any number of purposes including computer backup storage. However, along with these positive advancements, people who seek to abuse other people’s…
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Reasons to Move Business-Critical Applications to Virtual Machines

Moving applications and data to virtual machines – i.e. virtualizing these applications – is a major change for businesses. If anything were to go wrong with business-critical applications, a company would have a lot to worry about. Lack…
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Virtual Machine Backup Strategies

Virtualization can offer significant benefits for businesses with large amounts of data. This IT strategy involves creating a virtual machine with operating system-like capabilities to store and run large applications. This effectively separates…
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KineticD & Security: Why your backups were not affected by Heartbleed.

As you may be aware, a major vulnerability code named Heartbleed recently been discovered for OpenSSL, the popular encryption software that powers two thirds (2/3) of the Internet. Since KineticD only relied on OpenSSL for our marketing portals,…
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Cloud Backup Should Be Like an Insurance Policy with All Primary Restores Coming from Local Backup

Data is quickly being recognized as the lifeblood of business. For many, it’s their most valuable business asset. Customers are often more willing to give you their money than they are to give you their personal data. That alone speaks to…
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Advantages of Using a Hosted Cloud-based Backup System Instead of Building Your Own

Unless you’re in the IT business, the job of managing your own server is more of a tactical nightmare than a comforting dream. Even if you have a dedicated IT staff on hand, do your really want them focused on the busy work of data backup…
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Top 5 Cloud Backup Myths

Similar to other new and innovative technologies, the cloud has many people confused or hesitant to take advantage its awesome capabilities. It was only a few years ago that the cloud made its way into people’s lives, and it is revolutionizing…
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How to Choose the Right Cloud Backup Provider Guide

Despite what people may have heard about cloud backup providers, they are not all one-size-fits-all. The services offered by some of the most common cloud companies are actually quite diverse. It is true that each company stores data remotely…
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Do You Need an Umbrella for Your Cloud?

Almost anyone who does any kind of computing, whether it’s at a desktop or on a mobile device, has heard about the “cloud.” However, how many people really know what that means? If you’ve ever asked yourself: “what exactly is this…

The Backify and Livedrive Fiasco confirms the fact that not all online backups are created equal

On the 13th of October, online backup and data storage  got a reality check. Backify, a LiveDrive powered cloud backup and recovery vendor, announced free storage of up to 512 GB with an option to “upgrade” to “unlimited space”. But,…