Blancco File Eraser: Guide to erasing individual files
Many of the articles in this blog are often dedicated to the topic of data erasure. As many of us will be aware; in our digital age, information is the new gold. Remember the old western movies? Bad...
What does the future hold for SATA and SAS SSDs?
Solid State Drives (SSDs) have become more and more prevalent over the years and are starting to become the norm for home computing devices. They are also now used extensively in enterprise-class...
What (not) to do when you've lost data
We’ve all been there at some point in our lives; you accidentally delete your most recent copy of that presentation you’ve been working on for the past few days. You didn’t mean to click ‘yes’ on...
24 March 2017 00:00:00 EDT
How to erase live server data, without wiping the whole system
Securely erasing data is by no means an easy task. Whether it is a single laptop hard drive or multiple drives in a server configuration - just pressing the delete button on a keyboard won´t do the...
17 March 2017 00:00:00 EDT
The challenges of switching your cloud storage provider
Cloud computing offers many benefits to companies: the need for hardware and software is reduced drastically, costs for energy, employees, software licenses can be scaled down almost immediately...
28 February 2017 00:00:00 EST
Guest post: How to protect against ransomware in 2017
Since 2010, more and more targeted cyberattacks have been reported, especially those that contain blackmailing ransomware viruses. The spread of the ‘Locky’ virus via email in February 2016 was a...
14 February 2017 00:00:00 EST
What is 'virtualisation sprawl' and how do you stop it?
Gone are the days where virtualisation is just for early-adopters and IT geeks; virtual storage technology has found its place in almost every IT department or data center in the last few years....