Information Technology Blog

This month's issue of IT Informer includes the following articles:

• Are You Letting Your Corporate Data Leak at Starbucks?
• Floods in Thailand, Hard Drive Shortage Will Impact Small- and Mid-Sized Businesses
• Enhanced Backup & Disaster Recovery Services Available to Clients

We all like Starbucks (well, most of us, anyway).  Personally, I’m a Venti Skim 3 Equal Latte kind of guy.  And, along with that Latte, if I find myself in between meetings or out of town, I’ll usually sit down to work for a while.  Connecting to the Wifi network at Starbucks, or any public wifi hotspot, might be one of the biggest and most misunderstood security dillemas business users (and the companies they work for) face today.

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Floods in Thailand, Hard Drive Shortage Will Impact Small- and Mid-Sized Businesses

Floods in Thailand that hit in mid-October have had a serious effect on the supply of hard drives across the globe.  Western Digital (one of the largest hard drive distributors in the world) announced their December revenues will be at least 60% lower than a year ago, due to their concentration of supply chain factories in flooded areas.  The flooded areas are estimated to be responsible for nearly 70% of the world’s demand for hard drives.

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Featured Product: Enhanced Backup & Disaster Recovery Services Available to Clients

We’re pleased to announce a series of significant enhancements to our Backup & Disaster Recovery suite offered to our clients.  ShadowControl ImageManager works in conjunction with StorageCraft ShadowProtect, the award-winning line of backup and disaster recovery software. It includes tools and services that allow users to replicate backup images to the cloud, pre-stage backups as virtual machines, consolidate backup image files and monitor and manage backups created with ShadowProtect.

ShadowProtect is an integral part of the Backup & Disaster Recovery suite, recoverIT, and allows your business to recover from system or data loss in minutes, not hours or days.  With near real-time backups as often as 15-minutes, your downtime is minimized.  

New features of ShadowControl include: 

• ShadowStream™ accelerates the file transfer of backup images up to five times faster than traditional file transfer does. Its technology transports ShadowProtect backup files off-site quickly and reliably by controlling bandwidth capacity.
• intelligentFTP™ enables the user to filter files for replication locally, to the network, or to an off-site location. The user can set parameters for the replication, whether it’s every incremental backup or just backup files that have been verified.
• HeadStart Restore® reduces the recovery window by proactively constructing the backup image as a virtual machine, allowing the user to restore the system in minutes, saving critical time.

For more information about our Backup & Disaster Recovery solution “recoverIT”, please contact one of our Information Technology professionals at 440-449-6800.

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