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....
03 February 2017 00:00:00 EST
How do you check the health of a hard drive?
Whether you are a private user or work within an IT department, you can sometimes be presented with a stark reality; hard drives are no longer working as they should and/or data suddenly disappears....
31 January 2017 00:00:00 EST
Did you know loud noises could cause data loss?
Almost everybody has heard about the noises that hard disks make when they are about to fail or when they’re broken already. This indicates that time’s up for the drive and you either will experience...
24 January 2017 00:00:00 EST
How to crack encrypted files
Encrypting your files is very important to ensure you keep your data safe, especially since the recent rise in ransomware attacks becoming more of an issue globally. Even today, not only...
20 January 2017 00:00:00 EST
Why you should erase virtual data
Traditionally, getting rid of data from storage media has often been limited to hard drives from old PCs and laptops once they reach the end of their useable lifespan. However, with today’s...