By: Kathy Speers
Digital signage is making an incredible leap into interactive signage with the help of the mobile phone market. While mobile phones have brought awareness to interactivity and its many advantages, they have also brought with them a need for education on the differences between touch available for a phone and that which is available in a touch screen monitor.
Many articles have been written about the different touch technologies available for this new interactive digital signage market, but not many address how these different technologies also differ in the amount of touch points offered. And many touch screen monitors in the market say they are “multi-touch” displays. While this might be true, most touch displays are actually dual touch, meaning they can only support two different points of touch. This is important to understand because some applications for touch require more than two points.
Education has proven to be an early adopter of large format touch screen monitors, whether for K12 or higher ed. The sizes these institutions are looking for are between 55” and 85”. Imagine having a large touch screen display but only two points of touch. Now imagine having an even larger touch screen where multiple students can use the screen at once, in classroom settings. This is just as effective in public spaces where more than one person can access information about the school at one time.
While the type of touch technology available for any given size is important, it is just as important to first identify how the screen will be used. If it is a kiosk-type project where the touch screen monitor will only be used by a single person at any given time, two point touch is sufficient. If you need a 70” touch display for up to two users, you should consider 6pt touch or 12pt touch.
The other thing to remember when considering your touch screen monitor is the kind of content you ask your audience to engage. There are many content providers who still only create content for single or dual touch applications. If your project requires more than one user or if the scope of the project is such that you will need to manipulate several different objects on your touch screen, you’ll require something with 12-32pts of touch. Always work with your content provider and the touch screen monitor manufacturer about the application and any specifics about how you want the screen to be used so that they can recommend the most appropriate touch screens.
Off the shelf touch displays are typically good for small projects and single user applications, but if you have a large project in mind and a customized solution, you should seek out the advice of an integrator or content provider to guide you through the process. You will be much better served going this route, where you will work with professionals who have experience creating these interactive digital environments, than purchasing a touch screen monitor from an internet retailer and later finding out that it does not fit your needs.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Changing the Workplace With Document Imaging
By: Robert Corter
Any business owner will benefit much from the new technology that is document imaging. You can say goodbye to any administrative woes with this computer software. This modern system allows for more efficient business procedures without the need to change your company’s administrative structure.
Document imaging, known also as digital scanning, allows you to digitize your physical documents like typewritten, printed, or handwritten files. You can also do this with pictures, newspaper and other printed articles, and receipts. This software is probably the simplest yet most effective solution to some common problems in the workplace.
For most business owners, one major problem is expenses. The reason why you put up a business is to earn money. If you spend on things that you can actually do without, then you’re doing something wrong. Document imaging allows you to take some things off your long list of expenses. You no longer have to purchase reams of paper, lots of folders and envelops, and bulky filing cabinets. You don’t have to renovate your office just to make room for your ever-growing files disguised as mess.
If you were working for a company and your desk is surrounded by mountains of papers, how do you think you can work more effectively? Document scanning clears up your workplace and gives you more space to go about your work. A clean and organized workplace is one key to smooth-flowing and productive business. Additionally, this software gives your office a more modern feel which will likely inspire your employees and attract more clients.
Any business depends on their clients for its success. One way to make your customers feel important is to not let them wait while you search for some important documents. Document imaging stores all your files in a computer which can be easily accessed in just a few minutes, if not seconds. Even if you are outside your office or in a meeting with clients in another place, you can quickly retrieve your web-based documents by logging on to your computer, laptop, or whatever gadget you have with you. Briefcases are a thing of the past. You can carry all your files in a small electronic device and easily make copies for your clients.
If your intent on making your business a huge success, you should always be on the lookout for anything new that may favor you and your business. Never stop learning and searching for ways to make your business more efficient and productive. Choose the right software that offers digital scanning. There are quite a few out there. Look at the reputation of the company offering this software before you jump in the pond. Know everything that is needed to know. For one thing, you can request to see the document databases that the company manages. Look for software that will last a long time and will not be replaced as soon as you get one for your business. Also, consider the kind of business you are engaged in. This will help you decide which digital imaging software to use.
Any business owner will benefit much from the new technology that is document imaging. You can say goodbye to any administrative woes with this computer software. This modern system allows for more efficient business procedures without the need to change your company’s administrative structure.
Document imaging, known also as digital scanning, allows you to digitize your physical documents like typewritten, printed, or handwritten files. You can also do this with pictures, newspaper and other printed articles, and receipts. This software is probably the simplest yet most effective solution to some common problems in the workplace.
For most business owners, one major problem is expenses. The reason why you put up a business is to earn money. If you spend on things that you can actually do without, then you’re doing something wrong. Document imaging allows you to take some things off your long list of expenses. You no longer have to purchase reams of paper, lots of folders and envelops, and bulky filing cabinets. You don’t have to renovate your office just to make room for your ever-growing files disguised as mess.
If you were working for a company and your desk is surrounded by mountains of papers, how do you think you can work more effectively? Document scanning clears up your workplace and gives you more space to go about your work. A clean and organized workplace is one key to smooth-flowing and productive business. Additionally, this software gives your office a more modern feel which will likely inspire your employees and attract more clients.
Any business depends on their clients for its success. One way to make your customers feel important is to not let them wait while you search for some important documents. Document imaging stores all your files in a computer which can be easily accessed in just a few minutes, if not seconds. Even if you are outside your office or in a meeting with clients in another place, you can quickly retrieve your web-based documents by logging on to your computer, laptop, or whatever gadget you have with you. Briefcases are a thing of the past. You can carry all your files in a small electronic device and easily make copies for your clients.
If your intent on making your business a huge success, you should always be on the lookout for anything new that may favor you and your business. Never stop learning and searching for ways to make your business more efficient and productive. Choose the right software that offers digital scanning. There are quite a few out there. Look at the reputation of the company offering this software before you jump in the pond. Know everything that is needed to know. For one thing, you can request to see the document databases that the company manages. Look for software that will last a long time and will not be replaced as soon as you get one for your business. Also, consider the kind of business you are engaged in. This will help you decide which digital imaging software to use.
Web2.0 Era Of Class Formation And Conversion Of Digital
By: Yzwd Dwz
Reality and virtual boundaries to eliminate, is an important feature of the Web2.0 era. Web2.0 era, the most noteworthy point is that the real world will be done on this platform a deconstruction of identity and power. For Internet world identity and powers of a new round of reconstruction of the gene pool. Be deconstructed fragments of genes stored in the Internet's huge database of gene, each gene with congenital conditions that constitute a digital personality, after an appropriate transition mechanisms, can be formed in different sectors of the digital, as the Internet information monitoring develop in depth, the different sectors of the digital conversion occurs.
Citizens the gene to digital class transmutation - the role of identity and power construction mechanism
Web2.0 era of the Internet is already the personality of the real world of virtualization editorial. With the advent of cloud storage, information storage continue to be the expansion and storage of civil gene may gradually become increasingly powerful data storage capacity. Internet citizens process of gene experienced editorial and homogenization conversion of step. After collecting the storage process, citizens genes have the transmutation into digital personality, and ultimately the formation of the ability of the digital hierarchy.
Identity and power construct has played a key role in the network citizen digital personality, and the differences in the way of the Internet world production in turn determines the digital class differences. According to the different ways of information production, digital hierarchy is divided into three levels, digital sharecroppers class, digital middle class digital elite.
American writer Clay Shirky "cognitive surplus," a book that people use the media to have three purposes: consumption, creation and sharing. These three activities also constitute citizens Web2.0 era Internet activities. Digital hierarchy is based on a network of citizens for the information consumer to create, share different division.
Citizens of the digital sharecroppers class network is principally engaged in the creation of "information" to share, consumption. "Information" means information pyramid in the most low-end content. Its main feature is based on the personal life of trivial words, presented in order to cater to the mass psychology of entertainment, worthless information. Claude Shannon's information theory, noise and redundancy. Too much of such information, will result in the spread of information in the dissemination process, offset by the knowledge and wisdom. Citizen of the digital sharecroppers class network often seen among microblogging personal private life to make a boring show to participate unfounded network the crackdown behavior, concern and sharing too much for hearsay rumors the network, and the manufacture of low-level, lack of social responsibility the information content of the consciousness and humanistic care, no logic concoction. This class network citizens vulnerable to the impact of a barometer of public opinion, at this stage of the network water army, Fifty Cent Party more than they.
Digital network of the middle class citizens is mainly engaged in the creation of "information" and "knowledge", sharing and consumption. "Knowledge" refers to the information pyramid at the end. The function of knowledge is to make people think critically about the social attitudes of some self-reflection and the ability to think. The knowledge provided the basis for the formation of the Internet mainstream values, have a certain reference value. Digital network of the middle class citizens sometimes chaotic mosaic exhibition of private life, interested in the low conservation information, but they are different from the the digital sharecroppers class purely indulging unthinkingly, they are more able to maintain their ability to think rich cultural reserve, but still do not have the ability to perceptual knowledge into wisdom of. This population is overwhelmingly among the network of civil society, most of them with a certain level of students, teachers, white-collar workers have the social experience, the general staff of the company, executives, and so on.
Digital elite network citizens is not in the information and knowledge to make a fuss. Their concern is the the information pyramid top of the "wisdom" of production. "Wisdom" as the the information pyramid top of the information, have a strong philosophical meaning, to be able to complete a summary of the universal law of the various events. Wisdom for the interpretation of events is programmatic, and have a strong guiding significance. "The heart of official thinking, thinking you have the digital elites in the observation of things, not only with a binocular with an enthusiastic go dissect complex event. Real recourse on the good side, the insistence of the persistent sense of beauty is a core feature of the digital elite. Network information ocean, they are opinion leaders, mass response of the power of discourse, onlookers change the scene, they are the most powerful call-to-action, their powerful charisma man talked about the topic.
The digital class into each other: information monitoring mechanism gives the possibility of
Citizens completed the class construct gene depending on the information production content, can be transformed into digital hierarchy it has formed? If so, what are the mechanisms of transformation? Internet development of information technology has given the class transformation possible, that is, information monitoring mechanism forming.
In a sense, the Internet information monitoring mechanism is a powerful panopticon, it is the most cumbersome regulatory treatment to minimize the cost. Internet has gradually become an electronic monitor at all times kept running. Any time, any network citizens a tiny behavior and trajectory will be recorded in a substantial network of data centers. The conversion of the digital class actually lies in information monitoring airtight. Foucault said: "People die in the panopticon", provides a powerful metaphor - Everyone survival monitoring, the completion of the mission of the survival of the Internet to every internet citizen.
Shallow divided, information monitoring mechanisms rely on the formation of two streams mixed.
First airstreams from social media with Facebook, record and monitor the direction of the streams of people's information on to the next, each social tool users are keen on the sound, they day and night on the social networking platform to show self-exposure, say it, then sent out the diagram, fill in the form of name, date of birth, gender, hobbies, interest, home address, personal phone information is endless exposure social platform, social platform seems to take the initiative to submit a paper paper "resume". Therefore, the social networking platform Facebook represented by many network of citizens' identity cards. Social tools on the Internet information resources of the citizens were aggregated to form their own resources.
The role of the second air flow from the search engine Google as the representative. This air flow is from top to bottom, it is a huge database of Internet citizens unconscious exposure. The search engine has the characteristics of weapons is its unique spider. Spider on the aggregation of information to rely on widely distributed nodes, each node is associated with rather than in isolation. Ultimately achieve the effect of "Justice has long arms. The spider's work is constantly crawling in the site, from top to bottom uninterrupted crawl and index. Many sites, many privacy trajectory are included. The the extensive webs with panoramic monitoring, the characteristics of the streams.
The confluence of the two streams from the bottom up and the top down to form a powerful whirlpool phenomenon of the whirlpool that all information hybridity complete summary of monitoring information from the centralized storage management. Web2.0 era this powerful information monitoring mechanism prompted everyone to show his true face, hypocritical mask of the network is about to gradually exit the stage of history. Network among the citizens to each other supervision because of the presence of this information monitoring mechanism, double face show his citizens will be exposed to the public eye under own infidelity; own show true knowledge will also be People worship eyes. This way and eliminate the election, the final class rotations.
Of course, the Internet information monitoring mechanism of biological logic machine logic invasion. The result is a network of national carnival crazy privacy exposing picture. People gradually lose their own private space. The private domain gradually become barren existence of some private beautiful has come to an end.
The formation and transformation of the Web2.0 era of digital hierarchy, have guiding significance for each network citizens. We live in the Internet "panopticon", accept monitoring and creating information. The production quality of the information determined by the difference digital class everyone vesting, and therefore, each network citizen should be responsible for their production information. Caution personal discourse powers.
Reality and virtual boundaries to eliminate, is an important feature of the Web2.0 era. Web2.0 era, the most noteworthy point is that the real world will be done on this platform a deconstruction of identity and power. For Internet world identity and powers of a new round of reconstruction of the gene pool. Be deconstructed fragments of genes stored in the Internet's huge database of gene, each gene with congenital conditions that constitute a digital personality, after an appropriate transition mechanisms, can be formed in different sectors of the digital, as the Internet information monitoring develop in depth, the different sectors of the digital conversion occurs.
Citizens the gene to digital class transmutation - the role of identity and power construction mechanism
Web2.0 era of the Internet is already the personality of the real world of virtualization editorial. With the advent of cloud storage, information storage continue to be the expansion and storage of civil gene may gradually become increasingly powerful data storage capacity. Internet citizens process of gene experienced editorial and homogenization conversion of step. After collecting the storage process, citizens genes have the transmutation into digital personality, and ultimately the formation of the ability of the digital hierarchy.
Identity and power construct has played a key role in the network citizen digital personality, and the differences in the way of the Internet world production in turn determines the digital class differences. According to the different ways of information production, digital hierarchy is divided into three levels, digital sharecroppers class, digital middle class digital elite.
American writer Clay Shirky "cognitive surplus," a book that people use the media to have three purposes: consumption, creation and sharing. These three activities also constitute citizens Web2.0 era Internet activities. Digital hierarchy is based on a network of citizens for the information consumer to create, share different division.
Citizens of the digital sharecroppers class network is principally engaged in the creation of "information" to share, consumption. "Information" means information pyramid in the most low-end content. Its main feature is based on the personal life of trivial words, presented in order to cater to the mass psychology of entertainment, worthless information. Claude Shannon's information theory, noise and redundancy. Too much of such information, will result in the spread of information in the dissemination process, offset by the knowledge and wisdom. Citizen of the digital sharecroppers class network often seen among microblogging personal private life to make a boring show to participate unfounded network the crackdown behavior, concern and sharing too much for hearsay rumors the network, and the manufacture of low-level, lack of social responsibility the information content of the consciousness and humanistic care, no logic concoction. This class network citizens vulnerable to the impact of a barometer of public opinion, at this stage of the network water army, Fifty Cent Party more than they.
Digital network of the middle class citizens is mainly engaged in the creation of "information" and "knowledge", sharing and consumption. "Knowledge" refers to the information pyramid at the end. The function of knowledge is to make people think critically about the social attitudes of some self-reflection and the ability to think. The knowledge provided the basis for the formation of the Internet mainstream values, have a certain reference value. Digital network of the middle class citizens sometimes chaotic mosaic exhibition of private life, interested in the low conservation information, but they are different from the the digital sharecroppers class purely indulging unthinkingly, they are more able to maintain their ability to think rich cultural reserve, but still do not have the ability to perceptual knowledge into wisdom of. This population is overwhelmingly among the network of civil society, most of them with a certain level of students, teachers, white-collar workers have the social experience, the general staff of the company, executives, and so on.
Digital elite network citizens is not in the information and knowledge to make a fuss. Their concern is the the information pyramid top of the "wisdom" of production. "Wisdom" as the the information pyramid top of the information, have a strong philosophical meaning, to be able to complete a summary of the universal law of the various events. Wisdom for the interpretation of events is programmatic, and have a strong guiding significance. "The heart of official thinking, thinking you have the digital elites in the observation of things, not only with a binocular with an enthusiastic go dissect complex event. Real recourse on the good side, the insistence of the persistent sense of beauty is a core feature of the digital elite. Network information ocean, they are opinion leaders, mass response of the power of discourse, onlookers change the scene, they are the most powerful call-to-action, their powerful charisma man talked about the topic.
The digital class into each other: information monitoring mechanism gives the possibility of
Citizens completed the class construct gene depending on the information production content, can be transformed into digital hierarchy it has formed? If so, what are the mechanisms of transformation? Internet development of information technology has given the class transformation possible, that is, information monitoring mechanism forming.
In a sense, the Internet information monitoring mechanism is a powerful panopticon, it is the most cumbersome regulatory treatment to minimize the cost. Internet has gradually become an electronic monitor at all times kept running. Any time, any network citizens a tiny behavior and trajectory will be recorded in a substantial network of data centers. The conversion of the digital class actually lies in information monitoring airtight. Foucault said: "People die in the panopticon", provides a powerful metaphor - Everyone survival monitoring, the completion of the mission of the survival of the Internet to every internet citizen.
Shallow divided, information monitoring mechanisms rely on the formation of two streams mixed.
First airstreams from social media with Facebook, record and monitor the direction of the streams of people's information on to the next, each social tool users are keen on the sound, they day and night on the social networking platform to show self-exposure, say it, then sent out the diagram, fill in the form of name, date of birth, gender, hobbies, interest, home address, personal phone information is endless exposure social platform, social platform seems to take the initiative to submit a paper paper "resume". Therefore, the social networking platform Facebook represented by many network of citizens' identity cards. Social tools on the Internet information resources of the citizens were aggregated to form their own resources.
The role of the second air flow from the search engine Google as the representative. This air flow is from top to bottom, it is a huge database of Internet citizens unconscious exposure. The search engine has the characteristics of weapons is its unique spider. Spider on the aggregation of information to rely on widely distributed nodes, each node is associated with rather than in isolation. Ultimately achieve the effect of "Justice has long arms. The spider's work is constantly crawling in the site, from top to bottom uninterrupted crawl and index. Many sites, many privacy trajectory are included. The the extensive webs with panoramic monitoring, the characteristics of the streams.
The confluence of the two streams from the bottom up and the top down to form a powerful whirlpool phenomenon of the whirlpool that all information hybridity complete summary of monitoring information from the centralized storage management. Web2.0 era this powerful information monitoring mechanism prompted everyone to show his true face, hypocritical mask of the network is about to gradually exit the stage of history. Network among the citizens to each other supervision because of the presence of this information monitoring mechanism, double face show his citizens will be exposed to the public eye under own infidelity; own show true knowledge will also be People worship eyes. This way and eliminate the election, the final class rotations.
Of course, the Internet information monitoring mechanism of biological logic machine logic invasion. The result is a network of national carnival crazy privacy exposing picture. People gradually lose their own private space. The private domain gradually become barren existence of some private beautiful has come to an end.
The formation and transformation of the Web2.0 era of digital hierarchy, have guiding significance for each network citizens. We live in the Internet "panopticon", accept monitoring and creating information. The production quality of the information determined by the difference digital class everyone vesting, and therefore, each network citizen should be responsible for their production information. Caution personal discourse powers.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
5 Web Based Scanning Tools
By: Robert Corter
As attacks on web based scanning application continue to threaten the internet platform, the demand for tools on website scanning and security check continues to grow. Gone are the days of checking out on common hacks and picking websites at hand - software developers and IT pros can now use automated web application testing tools to gather reports and use them as guidelines in fixing security-related bugs or issues.
Web based scanning has become a part of the entire web application testing method for determining bugs in the software development cycle. And because security in web based scanning has become a crucial part of the software expansion, several requirements like the Payment Card Security Standard has been regulated to scan any web-based stuff and its vulnerability to ensuring security.
There are three key elements in an effective web based scanning program: defining the purpose & scope of the scan, assembling a readable & usable report and deciding on the right scanning tools to use during application. Even if the website is filled with security loopholes, it is very important to scan reports that can be translated into action (by means of upgrading) in order to regulate or, better yet, fix web scanning issues.
SECURITY is very essential in web based scanning. Take note that all websites are designed with relevant information about the company involved. These days, the cutthroat process of "website defacement" is done to trace hackers. So if you want to secure your web based scanning application instead of considering its susceptibility to hackers, here are top five web scanning vulnerability tools for both Linux and Windows platform.
WEBSECURIFY Web Security Testing
This is a cross-operating system testing tool available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. WEBSECURIFY is considered the best web scanning vulnerability tool that helps control risks throughout your web application.
NETSPARKER Web Security Application Scanner
A highly-commercialized web scanning tool designed to find certain vulnerabilities over web application, NETSPARKER comes with a 30-day trial version for those who want to use rapid "web penetration" testing in determining security issues within the application.
NIKTO Web Scanner
Considered as the #1 source for web vulnerability scanning, NIKTO is available in Linux platform as well as page script distributors like BackBox, GnackTrack and BackTrack. You can also use this tool in Mac and Windows 7 platform, but make sure that you downloaded a fully-upgraded Perl Script first.
SKIPFISH Web Scanning Vulnerability Tool
This is the first automatic web scanning tool designed to trace all vulnerabilities under a single application. The unique thing about SKIPFISH is that you don't need to become an expert only to find scanning vulnerability in your website. The tool is available in the BackTrack 5 format.
OWASP (Proxy-ZAP) Zed Attack
This tool started out as an open web scanning application project by a non-profit organization dedicated in improving web scanning and security. The Zed Attack is a proxy used to integrate web penetrating tools into a single application (through using OWASP's automatic web scanning functionality).
As attacks on web based scanning application continue to threaten the internet platform, the demand for tools on website scanning and security check continues to grow. Gone are the days of checking out on common hacks and picking websites at hand - software developers and IT pros can now use automated web application testing tools to gather reports and use them as guidelines in fixing security-related bugs or issues.
Web based scanning has become a part of the entire web application testing method for determining bugs in the software development cycle. And because security in web based scanning has become a crucial part of the software expansion, several requirements like the Payment Card Security Standard has been regulated to scan any web-based stuff and its vulnerability to ensuring security.
There are three key elements in an effective web based scanning program: defining the purpose & scope of the scan, assembling a readable & usable report and deciding on the right scanning tools to use during application. Even if the website is filled with security loopholes, it is very important to scan reports that can be translated into action (by means of upgrading) in order to regulate or, better yet, fix web scanning issues.
SECURITY is very essential in web based scanning. Take note that all websites are designed with relevant information about the company involved. These days, the cutthroat process of "website defacement" is done to trace hackers. So if you want to secure your web based scanning application instead of considering its susceptibility to hackers, here are top five web scanning vulnerability tools for both Linux and Windows platform.
WEBSECURIFY Web Security Testing
This is a cross-operating system testing tool available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. WEBSECURIFY is considered the best web scanning vulnerability tool that helps control risks throughout your web application.
NETSPARKER Web Security Application Scanner
A highly-commercialized web scanning tool designed to find certain vulnerabilities over web application, NETSPARKER comes with a 30-day trial version for those who want to use rapid "web penetration" testing in determining security issues within the application.
NIKTO Web Scanner
Considered as the #1 source for web vulnerability scanning, NIKTO is available in Linux platform as well as page script distributors like BackBox, GnackTrack and BackTrack. You can also use this tool in Mac and Windows 7 platform, but make sure that you downloaded a fully-upgraded Perl Script first.
SKIPFISH Web Scanning Vulnerability Tool
This is the first automatic web scanning tool designed to trace all vulnerabilities under a single application. The unique thing about SKIPFISH is that you don't need to become an expert only to find scanning vulnerability in your website. The tool is available in the BackTrack 5 format.
OWASP (Proxy-ZAP) Zed Attack
This tool started out as an open web scanning application project by a non-profit organization dedicated in improving web scanning and security. The Zed Attack is a proxy used to integrate web penetrating tools into a single application (through using OWASP's automatic web scanning functionality).
The Cost of Replacing Data Vs Using Online Backup
According to a 2003 study at Pepperdine University in California, data losses cost American businesses a staggering $18,000,000,000. With the increasing use of more vulnerable laptops, and the concentration of data on multi-gigabyte hard drives that figure is probably higher today. Businesses worldwide are losing vast amounts of money each year due to hard drive crashes, disasters like fire of flood, and theft of or damage to a portable device. Even the data stored on a smartphone can be significant.
In another US survey, 69 percent of the computer savvy business people who were polled reported that they had lost data due to a disaster, viruses, hardware failure and, yes, accidental deletion. Something as simple as failing to save a file before your computer reboots (usually after an automatic upgrade) can cause data loss which translates into time lost reworking the file.
In many cases it is possible to retrieve at least some of the data lost when a hard drive crashes, but the technical wizards who know how to do this do not come cheap. It can cost thousands of euros for laptop, and tens of thousands for a networked computer. There are many back-up systems available to mitigate the problem, but a system is only as good as how faithfully it is followed. Many users of personal desktop or laptop computers have gone as far as to purchase a data storage device such as a USB flash drive or external hard drive. In theory all data files are loaded onto one of these devices at regular intervals. Now when was the last time that happened?
A business that does not have some sort of data back-up system – one that is rigorously enforced – is just asking for trouble, serious trouble. Even with regular backing up some data losses occur, and time and productivity are always lost during the period when the data are being restored. Let’s say that three hours of downtime costs the company €100. It is likely to be much, much more, but suppose that by luck there were no sales lost, and the €100 just represents lost productivity because you still have to pay your employees even if there is nothing for them to do until the computers are back up.
For less than €100a year, it is possible to protect your data and guarantee that your small or middle-sized company does not suffer catastrophic losses. This is all done through the wonders of online back-up. The best part is that once the backup-software has been installed on your computer or server your job is done. No more remembering to change the tape or back-up on to a memory device. At fixed intervals, all your data are compressed and transmitted to an offsite location where they are stored. Encryption and secure transmission protect your data every step of the way. Your data is further safeguarded by using multiple data centresfor storage, even of older files and documents. This redundancy ensures full restoration in the time it takes to download the lost information.
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