Backups are the most essential maintenance task for computing devices, and believing otherwise only sets you up for a lot of despair when things eventually go wrong. This is especially true for home ...

Editor’s Note: Western Digital restored its My Cloud service on April 12. The original story follows. Western Digital has taken its My Cloud consumer cloud and backup service offline as a result of a ...

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Did your smart home devices suddenly stop responding? There’s a good chance that the cloud is to blame. But, what do you do when that happens? Here are the steps I take personally when the cloud goes ...

Key takeaway: In these 10 cloud disasters, only one company came out unscathed, and it’s the one that had a tested third-party backup of its cloud data. I’ve always called for independent backups of ...

If there’s one rule of computing every system administrator preaches, it’s to always back up important data. Unfortunately, even among sysadmins, this rule is often preached more than it is ...

A fundamental of backup is 3-2-1 – often referred to as “the 3-2-1 rule”. But what is the 3-2-1 rule? Is it still of value to all organisations, especially in an era defined by increasing use of the ...

The 11 best cloud backup services for organizations to consider Your email has been sent AvePoint: AvePoint Backupify: Backupify Barracuda: Barracuda Commvault Backup & Recovery: Commvault Carbonite & ...