Water Resistant Smartphones - An In-Depth Overview
Many moons ago, I was once the proud owner of the humble Nokia 3310. All was well, until one particularly cold British day on the Swanage coast, where it slipped out of my hands and into the sea. I...
Data Security Measures to take for Everyday Life
Over time, pundits of data security and data recovery have always said to back up your data. Many of you are listening, but what do you do beyond that to secure your valuable information? Risks of...
Spring Cleaning for your Laptop or Desktop Computer
After a long and hard winter, it's nice to finally see the sun again and hear the birds chirp. While sitting for months inside the house, lots of things have accumulated - both inside rooms as well...
Looking Forward: IT Industry Predictions for 2016
You may have seen our press release earlier in the month discussing data recovery trends for 2015 and you might be thinking, 2015 is almost over, what about 2016? What’s going to happen in the IT...
Virtual Machine Gone Missing: Ontrack to the Rescue
A government entity experienced a grim situation when a synchronization error with vSAN 6 cluster drives caused the hosts to repeatedly crash. There were 56 drives, each 1 TB in size. After one host...
5 Simple Tools to Help Quantify IT Cost
Calculating the cost of information technology (IT) for business assets is far from a trivial undertaking. If you want to predict the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a new product or service, you...
The Need for Emergency Recovery Services
As businesses rely more and more on digital systems and data to improve the delivery of their goods and services, the need for emergency data recovery rises. When a data center experiences downtime...