Business continuity – ensuring your business can stay operational during adverse times – should be an important part of your business. Many owners recognize this and take steps to backup their data. This is a good start, but it isn’t enough. Thankfully we aren’t at high risk for the natural disasters our neighbours to the south are suffering on an increasing basis, but it doesn’t mean we aren’t immune to other technology catastrophes such as fire, theft, flood, employee error / sabotage or major hardware failure. Here are five things you should be doing, … [Read more...]

Here’s an important question for anyone using cloud applications to host important files and data: Are you routinely downloading and backing up a copy of your files to your own servers? If not, you’re taking a BIG risk of losing all that data. By now you should know to back up the data on your PCs and server offsite to the cloud; but what you might not have considered is the practice of downloading your data from critical cloud applications as a security measure against that cloud provider closing their doors, losing your data or simply cutting you off. True … [Read more...]