One of the concerns of many people who consider performing online backups is the matter of security. You are uploading sensitive stuff to a foreign site. Can anyone from within read this stuff? And what if the site is hacked and white collar thieves living in some foreign country get hold of the data?...
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Very recently, I read an article by W. Curtis Preston (at SearchDataBackup.com) about remote online backup services. As this blog, deals with data backups I would like to comment about some points. W. Curtis Preston is an executive editor at TechTarget and independent backup expert. Preston starts his article by pointing out the major setback of...
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Data deduplication is a data backup process that eliminates duplicated data. At first thought, one may think that the word deduplication means the negation of duplication! Although, this is what happens in data deduplication that connotation is not the right one! Actually, the word deduplication means the division of that which is one whole...
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A remote or online backup solution is the way forward for off-site data protection. Due to regulatory compliance some corporations are holding back from going to this direction, however, much work is being made in this area and soon we have providers that will provide such conformity. On the other hand, the majority of...
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Are online backup and recovery solutions cheaper than the counterpart traditional solutions? Before I deal with this argument I would like to point out a few points: – online backups provide an offsite disaster recovery solution, you can access your data from anywhere given that you have an internet connection and additionally, you will...
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Are cars safe? Are computers safe? Is buying over the internet safe? These are some of the questions people who pose the question above might have asked a hundred, thirty and fifteen years ago. Today, many of us use cars, computers and regularly effect payments over the internet without much thought. When talking about...
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