It’s critical to quickly put data to work. Cloud helps you do this. Smart CIOs are evolving their existing in-house IT—to include “the cloud.” But beware of hidden pitfalls in moving to ...

The cloud revolution is upon us. We are witnessing more and more businesses moving their critical IT infrastructure and data to the cloud. This move is driven by the tremendous potential of cloud ...

How to put all your data on the Web—without storing it in the cloud Product showdown: Tonido and PocketCloud put your desktop hard drives online.

This week 40,000 Gmail users logged in to find empty inboxes, the result of a software bug. Google has been able to restore lost e-mail from magnetic tape backups, but how secure are data in the ...

The shift to cloud brings new challenges to data storage, which is already complicated by virtualized systems, tape storage, network-attached storage (NAS) and other data storage formats.

Cloud is everybody’s big, white, fluffy field of dreams. When somebody says their big data strategy is to “put it all into the cloud,” you can’t be sure whether they’re a visionary or ...

Encryption of your data, while it's in transit and comfy in the cloud, works great against brute-force attacks. It would take a supercomputer years to crack the 256-bit encryption.

These Cloud-based data storage applications offer lots of space for free. And if you need more, it’s likely cheaper than physical storage. Plus, you’ll never lose your data in a fire or a flood.

If your big data changes rapidly, old data should be purged or at least moved to low-cost cold storage on the cloud. Finally, cloud cost accounting should be reviewed upfront with your cloud ...

For data, I regularly send over my most critical files (C:\Users) to my NAS box, which keeps all my data safe via a RAID 5 array. I combine that with a Backblaze backup, because you can never have ...

Before you restore Windows 11 from the cloud, you should run the backup once so that you can restore all data later. In general, it doesn’t hurt to synchronize your data with OneDrive using ...