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Choosing Cloud-Based Back-Up Services

When choosing a back-up service provider, here are some issues to consider: Do you have special security needs involving regulated data? If you have medical, financial, educational or other sensitive files, what security and encryption protocols are available for your protection? Where, exactly, is the data being stored? Potentially, the…

CryptoLocker Virus Thwarted

If you have been hit by the CryptoLocker virus, now there’s hope you can retrieve your files. Researchers have turned the tables on suspected cyber criminals from Russia who used the CryptoLocker virus to extort millions from unwitting computer users all over the world. FireEye and Fox-IT, two technology firms,…

Secure and Confidential . . . Protected

Secure and Confidential . . . Protected When you lose data and look for help in getting it back, security and confidentiality aren’t the first thoughts that come to mind, but they should be No. 2 and No. 3. At DriveSavers, we’ve been recovering data from a wide range of…

Windows XP Death Watch: Microsoft Support Ends Soon

In just a few weeks, Microsoft will stop supporting its Windows XP operating system (OS). The manufacturer will cease security upgrades and support service for XP users on April 8, 2014, making any XP system in the world be more vulnerable to hack attacks and data theft. “If you continue…

NVMe: New Standard Interface for Solid State Drives

Solid-state drive (SSD) manufacturers are working with a new standard interface that allows SSDs to work at speeds closer to their full potential. The introduction of this new interface, which is called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe), is similar in importance to the now-ubiquitous USB connections used to link computers and…

SSD Grows, HDD Slows

Solid-state drives (SSDs) continued to outpace hard disk drive (HDD) sales by a wide margin last year and will grow even more popular in 2014, according to industry reports. Infostor, a storage industry publisher, reported shipments of SSDs grew by 82 percent in 2013 to 57 million units. There is…

Happy Birthday: The Apple Mac Turns 30

It’s hard to imagine, but the Apple Macintosh has just turned 30 years of age.  The juggernaut of Apple technology we take for granted today was just starting to flow out of Cupertino in 1984 when Apple founder Steve Jobs decided to show the world the future of computing on…

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