Q: What are fiCloud Mobile Backups?
A: An extra level of protection to make sure you never lose a hard day’s work.
When we decided to build our mobile backup solution, we fist examined the competition. Here’s why our backups are better than theirs:
1. Mozy: The main reason we ruled Mozy out was because when you need to restore your backup, Mozy limits your bandwidth after a period of time. One of our key criteria is speedy recovery when you need it most. Restoring from Mozy ends up feeling like filing up a tanker truck with a garden hose.
2. DropBox: DropBox is very simple and good for home users who are saving noncritical files. But for business, DropBox lacks any type of reporting to confirm backups are actually taking place. It would be impossible to keep track of multiple users and make sure people are getting all their stuff backed up.
3. Carbonite: Similar to Mozy, Carbonite pinches bandwidth, but they do it while uploading your backup. We also found a number of reports stating that users had difficulty downloading back-ups. Too many red flags to consider using for our clients.
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We asked our staff to share some of their gift ideas for this holiday season. Here is what they came up with!
Decker has been having fun with the Instax SHARE Smartphone Wireless Printer. This allows you to “print” photos you take with your phone to instant film. The application lets you add text, frames, etc. to personalize your pictures. Price: $179
~ Decker Chaney
Have you ever wanted to be Captain Kirk from Star Trek? Matthew suggests checking out the Redshirts Deluxe Edition Card Game. Bring your crew of redshirted officers on your away mission along with your fellow Captains. The first person to lose all their Redshirts wins! Fans of Star Trek the Original Series will like the humor in the Redshirts Card Game. Price: $27.99
~ Matthew Davenport
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Most small businesses give new team members an Employee Handbook that outlines everything anyone needs to know about the company. We expect our new hires to read this brick and be ready to pick an insurance plan, a 401K choice, know the company dress code, code of conduct and even what they can and cannot do online. We often include a boring video for safety or sensitivity training.
Many companies are now fast-tracking onboarding into a series of short videos that go through everything they need to know. It’s revolutionizing the new-hire orientation process, and here’s why it’s such a great idea:
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With recent DropBox, Google, Box, and Evernote security breaches, many of our customers are asking: are FREE cloud services secure? Our response is quite simple: only secure enough for your personal information.
What if you only store your less secure information on them? A few years ago I said, sure go for it. Storing your business information on these services is fine as long as you are careful. I WAS WRONG.
Free cloud services can put your business at risk.
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4 out of 5 businesses that suffer a computer disaster, and have no recovery plan, go out of business!
If you want to learn how you can keep more of your hard earned profits AND improve your ability to work remotely, access your desktop from home or on the road and have automatic disaster recovery, read on.
On Wednesday, October 22nd we’re holding a Power Breakfast for a select group of CEOs and Executives to show how this amazing new technology can eliminate a number of the IT costs and problems you may be dealing with.
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Google recently announced a new system where it will begin rewarding secure websites by giving them higher search rankings.
To implement this, Google has been running tests that take into account if sites are using secure, encrypted connections. Once detected, these sites trigger a signal in the search ranking algorithms and are then ranked accordingly. It is being advised that website developers use hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) as means for website encryption to secure the data that they send over the web and make their users less vulnerable.
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