World Backup Day 2015
What would you lose forever if your data is lost or stolen? March 31st is World Backup Day. This is a day where IT professionals get the word out on the importance of backups. Some sobering statistics; 30% of people have never backed up. Only 25% of people do a regular backup. 29% of data disasters are caused accidentally. 1 in 10 computers are infected with viruses every month. Many of…
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…
World Backup Day
Today is World Backup Day, with the great tagline of “Don’t be an April Fool Tomorrow check your backups and restores today”. Backups and restores should be checked more then once per year but it’s a great reminder for people that they seriously need to consider having a backup system in place to avoid disasters to their data. Several cloud storage companies are offering deals in connection with World Backup Day so it’s a…