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Outsmarting the CryptoLocker

Outsmarting the CryptoLocker

The battle against cybervillains is the purest definition of an unfair fight. In most cases, your only response is to be reactionary; they attack, and you react. They then look at the countermeasures you’ve taken to block them, and then formulate…
Hard Drive Disaster Prep for Procrastinators

Hard Drive Disaster Prep for Procrastinators

For many small businesses, the only activity that regularly occurs around data backup is procrastination. The bad news is that two major computer catastrophes are always on the horizon, waiting to destroy any valuable files stored on your office…

Three Cloud Computing Topics of Discussion for 2015

Cloud computing has been a frequent topic of discussion for businesses for the last several years, but like all technologies, the discussion continues to evolve. This year meetings will be centered around new subject matters related to cloud…
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CIO Review Features Data Deposit Box's Solutions Sized for SMBs

Cloud storage is often discussed in the context of giant server farms in constant states of downloading, storing and refreshing data for huge enterprises, even though all businesses need data security. Data Deposit Box wondered why cloud solutions…
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Mitigate Your Data Storage Costs and Improve Efficiency in the Cloud

When it comes to choosing the right backup provider, one needs to consider the reliability, availability, and redundancy of each vendor. On the surface, reliability, redundancy, and availability appear to be the same thing since they help to…
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The Evolution of Cloud Computing

For most computer users, the word “cloud” no longer means a suspended mass of particles. Instead, it’s a metaphor for the virtual world, and the idea of a converged infrastructure has definitely evolved. Businesses and individuals have…
Cloud Backup: the Basics

Cloud Computing: The Basics

Many early visual interpretations of the Internet displayed the all-knowing cumulonimbus cloud spewing out information. What exactly is going on in there? Simply put, cloud computing means accessing programs and cloud backup data through the…

Everything you need to know about Cloud Backup (part 1)

Data Deposit Box first opened its doors in the year 2002 with the simple idea that all PCs should have backup (back then iPhones and tablets didn’t exist). 12 years and 60,000+ business customers later Data Deposit Box has gained an unparalleled…

Kaspersky's "Malware" Identification of KineticD's software is a False Positive

On Monday June 4, Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 applied an update to their antivirus program that incorrectly categorized several online backup solutions, such as KineticD and Symantec, as malware. When a backup program is identified as malware,…

Who Really Owns Your Files on Google Drive?

It only took a few hours after launching, but Google Drive, the new cloud storage service, is already facing widespread criticism when it was discovered that the search giant owns its users’ files the moment they are uploaded. This is not…

Data Synchronization vs. Cloud Backup in 2012

As we negotiate our way through another very promising new year in the cloud computing world, there is still some widespread confusion with various aspects of cloud backup. One of these points of confusion seems to be the difference between…