6 things to check with your backups
Are you checking backups before you need to use them? A recent blog post by Ontrack a data recovery company reports that 66% of people who had a backup solution in place still reported data loss. That is a very high number but not surprising. Some of the reasons included the following. External drive only connected on an occasional basis; backup not automated and instead performed on demand Computer not on during scheduled backup and…
World Backup Day 2013
Today is World Backup Day. Where folks like me remind folks like you about the importance of backing up your data. Some of the stats from the site are quite sobering. More than 60 million computers will fail worldwide in 2013. Only 1 in 4 people back up their information regularly - that's roughly 45 million times this year where files will be lost forever. 113 cell phones are lost or stolen every minute in…
Microsoft Surface First Reactions
Microsoft took a page out of Apple's marking book and invited the tech press to a announcement event, with no indication on what would be announced. What was announced was Microsoft Surface, a tablet made by Microsoft and which will run two different versions of the upcoming Windows 8 platform. This is my initial thoughts on the product in the few hours since the announcement. (more…)