There are many reasons that businesses and their IT teams may weigh up the option to backup and protect data with an inhouse solutions versus outsourcing data backup.
Continue readingBackup devices and appliances are taking the hassle out of deciding where to keep your backups. Whether you like your appliances in ice white or brushed steel, they’re not all made the same. Seeing that they don’t come cheap, choosing too hastily can cause all sorts of headaches and frustration.
A portable hard drive can certainly be classified as a backup device. However, this caters more for the home user market with various size options available and sporting features like wireless transfer and disk encryption. But as far as backup devices go, you’re being serious about backups and disaster recovery when procuring a dedicated, multi-terabyte, fully redundant and optimised piece of hardware.
At ComputerWeekly.com, they did a product survey recently explaining what big contenders in the appliance market have to offer. Here are the factors you need to consider when deciding who to buy:
If you’re planning to back up several terabytes of data, a dedicated backup appliance is definitely the more cost effective solution compared to using cloud backups. Hopefully these guidelines will come in handy when making a decision on which option to go for.
There are many reasons that businesses and their IT teams may weigh up the option to backup and protect data with an inhouse solutions versus outsourcing data backup.
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Continue readingThe majority of Google services went down yesterday, leading to widespread disruption all around the world. Users were left waiting for almost an hour before hearing they could regain access.
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