• In Pictures: 10 Cloud storage and backup services for your small business

  By Paul Mah | 02 May, 2013 08:23

  The Cloud is an increasingly viable (and inexpensive) storage and backup option for small businesses. Here are 10 services worth a look - and, possibility, your data.

• CommVault highlights application snapshots with standalone IntelliSnap software

  By Stephen Lawson | 29 October, 2012 12:33

  In a bid to help large businesses create and manage snapshots of application data across sprawling enterprise environments, CommVault is releasing the snapshot component of its Simpana suite as a standalone product.

• At Houston Bank, Disaster Recovery Goes Virtual

  By Stephanie Overby | 01 November, 2011 08:57

  The Project: Implement a hypervisor-based replication system to provide more streamlined business continuity and disaster recovery for Woodforest National Bank's virtualized data center.

• Altaro ships Hyper-V backup solution for SMBs

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 12 August, 2011 22:54

  Altaro Software has started shipping Hyper-V Backup, a product designed to make it easier for small and medium-size companies to protect the data on their virtual servers.

• Seagate offers data recovery with hard drive purchase

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 09 August, 2011 03:43

  Hard drive crashes are a nightmare for computer users for many reasons. Not only can data held dear to one's heart be lost, but trying to recover it can cost an arm and a leg, if not more. Hard drive maker Seagate attempts to address both those problems with the release today of its GoFlex Turbo drive with SafetyNet data recovery services.

• Get 5GB of free cloud-sync storage from SugarSync

  By Rick Broida | 11 November, 2010 09:42

  Wouldn't it be cool if you had a "magic" folder on your PC, one that automatically synced its contents with the Web, your other PCs, your cell phone, and other devices?

• Safely dual-boot Windows 7 and XP

  By Chris Byers | 03 August, 2010 02:41

  QUESTION My PC dual-boots Windows XP 32bit and Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Every time I work in XP I lose all my restore points in Windows 7.

• When Your CRM System Passes 1 Million Records

  By David Taber | 04 March, 2010 08:18

  There isn't a sales force in the world that says it has enough Leads. And you won't find many marketing VPs who want to do fewer campaigns. So there's a never-ending stream of new leads, prospect interactions, and conversations to be stored in the CRM system. At companies in consumer markets, open source software, and other categories it's not unusual to find a million leads or more. But that's just the beginning: if you're using the latest marketing automation system, every e-mail, web download, and prospect response is recorded in the CRM system. And if you have a large call center, every call and e-mail exchange should be recorded well.

• Why the Cloud Should Have Your Back-Up

  By Bill Snyder | 15 December, 2009 05:53

  I realize I'm dating myself, but the first computer I ever owned didn't have a hard drive. It had two drive bays that held 5.25 inch floppies. Later, I bought a then revolutionary machine, an 8086 I think, with a 40 MB hard drive, and I wondered how anyone could ever fill it up. And the last time I moved, I discovered a box filled with floppies and 250 MB Zip drives.

• Raiders of the Lost Archive: SaaS, Disaster Recovery

  By David Taber | 10 September, 2009 01:48

  Backup, archival, recovery, and redundant operations for business continuity are key success factors for industrial strength IT. But how do the rules of the game change with multi-tenant SaaS applications?

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