We are fortunate to live at such a time, when so much technology exists to make our lives easier, or more convenient. Unfortunately, we also live at a time when vulnerabilities in these systems is exploited by, and for the benefit of, bad actors....

In 2019, I could have written a great blog about how information technology helps us, individually and as a society. Since then, we’ve had the opportunity to put information technology to the test, on a global scale.

Congratulations! You have finally migrated all your data into cloud storage, and no longer have to worry about outgrowing your storage solution or the possibility of losing information because of hardware failure. While this is a great relief to...

Ahhhh, file storage. A favorite topic of many a SysAdmin. Data storage is a necessity for any business, different lines of business may have different requirements for their data storage. Now there’s cloud storage, and you may still be using...

Everyone is familiar with, or has heard of, ransomware. It has been around in some fashion since 1989, with notable resurgence in 2005 and 2013. The original idea was to extort money from the victims by gaining access to their systems and encrypting...

As we prepare to say good-bye to 2020 and all it has brought us, we will first prepare to celebrate the 2020 Holiday season. While online holiday shopping has become more and more popular in the last several years, the global coronavirus pandemic...

I am sure by now that most everyone has heard of ransomware, usually in relation to a large corporation or municipality that has been targeted and the extraordinary cost involved with such an event. But do you really know what it is, and how to best...

Over the last several years, you have probably heard about “the Cloud”, and how people are moving to “the Cloud”. But what is “the Cloud”? What is the difference between public and private cloud? And why would you want to move to “the Cloud”?

In previous blogs, we’ve talked about Backup Best Practices, RTO & RPO, and Business Continuity. We briefly talked about recovery in the Backup Best Practices blog; here we’re going to expound on that process.