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I’m kicking myself. The hard drive in my MacBook went south this week. I didn’t lose a huge amount of data due to the crashed notebook drive … just one thing … a portion of my old email. Nearly everything else was backed up in one place or another. Losing six months of email to [...]
The smaller that technology becomes, the easier it is to forget it’s there. Say an iPod. Or a cell phone. How easy is it to forget that you left one of those little critters in a pants pocket? And when you throw those pants onto the wash pile… well… you get the idea.
It’s even worse [...]
Will you be ready when disaster strikes? Do you have first-aid kits in your home, office, and car? If you do, take a moment to check that the supplies have not run low. You wouldn’t want to crack open your first aid kit in an emergency only to find that you’re missing something important. What’s [...]
FEMA’s caught a raft of heat in the weeks since Hurricane Katrina left its trail of devastation. This latest revelation blows yet another chilly wind on the agency and its decision-making process. According to reports from WCSH in Portland, the federal government purchased nearly 170 million pounds of ice for the Katrina relief effort from [...]
Blame it on global warming or not, Tropical Storm Emily is the fifth named storm of the season at an unprecedented early date. As Emily rolls westward through the Caribbean on a path that may ultimately take her to Texas, she begs the question: does your company have a disaster recovery plan in place?
Given the recent series of storms, disaster recovery is on the minds of a lot of folks. And as Florida prepares for the possibility of a third battering, the topic of disaster recovery couldn’t be more timely. Backing up your data and using battery backup power are only a start. Adequate disaster preparation can go [...]
Hard drive data recovery is a topic we often fail to consider until it’s too late. When your hard drive crashes, it takes your data with it. While data recovery services may be able to get your valuable data back from a crashed hard drive, they do so at a price. Once panic mode sets [...]
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