tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17069060231156242762024-03-08T02:59:31.030-05:00Data Security and BackupHarshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-54669051066762859142012-03-30T16:13:00.000-04:002012-03-30T16:13:41.805-04:00Top 9 Data Security Risks<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here’s the list of Top 9 Data Security Risks. I thought to rank them by them causing maximum damage.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Risk 1:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Access to data by unauthorized people<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Simple passwords should be replaced by stronger, multi-factor </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> authentication passwords.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Password policy should be transparent throughout all the logins </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> required. Passwords should be between 6-15 long, must </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> include Upper case, lower case, Number and 1 special character.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Risk 2: </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Modification of data, by mistake or knowingly</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Data integrity is the key to the success of any organization. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">All data sent over the internet should be send using strong encryption</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Risk 3: </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Corruption of data due to malware infections</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Growth in internet usage has also seen the growth in malware </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> infections which significantly contribute to data corruption.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Files should always be downloaded from reliable sources.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Risk 4: </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Internet Connectivity failure</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Many Organizations these days have several applications over </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> the Internet, in such a situation failure of Internet can lead to </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> data loss.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Backup service provider should be if in case primary fails</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Risk 5: </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Accidental data deletion</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Backup should be taken regularly and should be done automatically </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> with option to restore data from multiple versions</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Several companies lack well-conceived data recovery strategies </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> had to bear both financial as well as legal losses.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Risk 6: </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Loss of data due to Software failures</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Pirated copies of software should not be bought even though </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> these copies can be purchased at a lesser price.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Misconfiguration and incorrect software usage have created </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> several issues.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Risk 7: </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Improper rights assigning</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Every program and every user of the system should operate using </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> the least set of privileges necessary to complete his job.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">A unique ID and password should be given to each user. Users </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> should be given read only access to the applications present.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Risk 8: </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Unauthorized Physical access to laptops, desktops by unauthorized people</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Prevent unauthorized entries into the premises and other </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> sensitive areas.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Visitor control procedures should be employed to restrict the freedom </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> by which a visitor can access the premises.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Risk 9: </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Fire</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo9; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Heat-generating equipments such as copiers, work processors, coffee </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo9; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> makers and hot plates should be kept away from anything that might </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo9; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> catch fire.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo9; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Sprinklers and fire/smoke detectors should be installed in storage </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo9; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> areas.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-25060301780912538702012-03-12T14:07:00.001-04:002012-03-12T20:49:35.605-04:00Managing Ageing Data<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I had this discussion with several of my clients stating they have old data of hundreds of GB’s on their servers and they hardly require them once or twice a year or even not at all. Some of them state they have written DVD/CD’s of that data as backup, but that data still exists on Servers which they cannot delete as DVD/CD's are prone to failure. Those data is occupying a whole bunch of space on their servers which they can utilize in storing their current data. Don’t get me wrong those data are critically important data but storing everything on a single server doesn’t make sense. Adding more hard disk to the servers is definitely one of the options available, but I would rather implement a different system</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Find out age of your data. There can be</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 126pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Young data</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 126pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">b)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Old data</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Young data </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">is the one which is highly valued and may be required to access almost everyday or fortnight.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Old data</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> is the one which is critical but may not be required in daily functioning i.e. data that is year or 2 years or more older.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For e.g. Accounting data which is current and previous year can fall in category of Young data.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Data which is older than 2years can be considered as Old data.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We are supposed to maintain those data for taxation and government rules. Next step is how to get a system which takes care of both Young and Old data.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Solution</span></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As we saw there are multiple tiers of data. </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Young Data </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">can be stored on higher performance servers or devices.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Old Data</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> can be moved to less expensive or slow performing servers / devices.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The following shall be benefits of this solution</span></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Save Costs</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gives faster access to young data</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Better security both for young and old data rather than relying on </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> DVD/CD’s or any other failure prone devices.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Access to both of your data anytime you require.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Reduce backup time as Old data does not change frequently so you </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> can take backup of the same once a month or once every quarter.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Maybe currently you are treating all data equally and storing them all on one data. Imagine, if a disaster occurs on your server, you might loose everything. Again, we increase overload on the server by storing everything on that same machine.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We have to learn to implement a system which shall differentiate between ageing of data.</span></span></div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-46147663709379738012012-02-21T09:32:00.003-05:002012-02-23T10:55:02.076-05:005 Benefits of Branch Office Backup<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-CA</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif][if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I would like to discuss in this post regarding Remote Office / Branch Office Backups. Many of you have been looking for a solution for branch office data. Some of you have even stated if we can get instant access to branch office data which is reliable and cost-effective.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Branch offices may not be fully equipped with high-end servers which can cause issues related to security of data, but the information stored on those computers are equally critical. For e.g. a construction company may have multiple sites functioning at the same time. The computers at the site shall have all financial, drawings, maintenance records on their computers. The question is for an IT person or CFO sitting in their office how to get instant access to those data or get it on their servers and consolidate with their current data so that they have full picture in front.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">One way to do it fast, easy and cost-effective is to go for online backup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A piece of software is installed on those computers and once setup, it shall keep on doing backup to the remote servers. You as an administrator shall have access to those backups and get download those data on your servers. And that shall resolve your problem related to security of data and consolidation of data to get full picture.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine the convenience of able to get data instantly! Rather than using USB sticks, Tape drives, External Hard drives or investing heavily in VPN setups.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Benefits of Branch Office Backup</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Instant Access to data</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">You can access data of any of your branches instantly! No need to wait for someone to send data and depend on unreliable media.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Security of data</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Your data is backed up and is 100% secured. No matter if your computer at branch goes down due virus, hardware failure or any other malpractice.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">No Capital Expenditure</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">No investments for servers or any other high-end network components. On top of that no maintenance specialist required. No VPN costs.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">No manual backups</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Backups are automatic. Users do not require to remember to do backups. While they are using computer backups appear.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Complete flexibility</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Gather information from all branches and prepare your reports. No dependability on any branch staff.</span></div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-83007640843569130702012-02-05T18:16:00.000-05:002012-02-05T18:16:48.971-05:00Data Backup to Email Accounts<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have come across many small business people feeling safe to zip there important data and upload to their email accounts. According to them there are certain benefits rather than taking backup on a CD, USB stick or any other offline media.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some of them have been listed below</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Accessibility of data from any location with access to internet</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Safe as hosted on external server</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cost effective no investment required</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I would say they have thought one step ahead of people who are still using any of the offline data media to do backup but their data backed up is not safe, reliable and secure.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Backing up data to your email accounts does not give you guaranteed security. The following are features which are missing or not available for such backup.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Manual Backups</span></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Backups should be automatic else it defeats the purpose of backup. The backup process should be easy, convenient and fast. Transferring backup to email accounts is manual process, where in you have to zip files and upload, you may even miss your valuable files to be backed up.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Unsecured data</span></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Your valuable data that you have backed up has no security. There is no commitment as to your data shall be safe and shall be recovered in case of any natural disasters. Technically, your data should be encrypted before it leaves your computer and encryption technology used should be the same level as used by financial institutions. </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">No support, nowhere to go</span></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you are unable to locate your uploaded files, there is no support provided. If you forgot password of your account you are locked. You can try to request for reset or alternate email address to recover [if you have set one up], but those are cumbersome processes and you may end up losing your data.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Limited data backup</span></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">File uploads are limited. Some provide upto 25MB or some offer little bit more than that. But when you want to backup couple of GB’s of data that shall not work.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">File Versioning</span></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">No file versioning. Multiple file versions is where in you get option to save more than one copy of the same file. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This can be useful in case if you have entered incorrect information in the updated data and want to restore older version of the same file.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">6.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">No Easy Data Restores</span></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In case if you have to restore your data, you have to look for all the files you have uploaded. Imagine, if you have multiple files to restore its not easy. In case, of disaster your data should be available on a press of button.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I would say, if you are uploading your data better look for online backup service providers. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The most important factor shall be Support provided by these providers. The Software provided by them covers almost all the important features for fast, simple and easily manageable data backups.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-74822835203416026082012-01-01T13:58:00.005-05:002012-01-03T11:38:12.399-05:00How to build Positive Attitude<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My first blog for 2012. I was thinking what should it be about, should it be technical, something new that is coming from backup technology, or about a new product launch. But then I thought maybe it should be something which we shall require for rest of the year and for life. POSITIVE ATTITUDE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Everyone almost knows about this, but as time passes everyone including me might have missed it somewhere. Stating this, I thought it shall be a good start for the year to refresh some basics.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The first thing for Positive Attitude should be to become good finder. Let's start looking for what is right in a person or situation instead of looking for what is wrong. Human nature generally resists change. Change is uncomfortable. Regardless of its positive or negative effect, change can be stressful. Sometimes we get so comfortable with our negativity that even when the change is for the positive, we don't want to accept it. We stay with the negative.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We need to feed our mind with the pure and the positive to stay on track. Through constant practice and exposure, we can learn the principles that make a person successful.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Following Steps can be implemented to build Positive Attitude</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Continuous positive education leads to positive thinking.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Build positive self-esteem quickly, one of the fastest ways is to do </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> something for others who cannot repay you in cash or kind.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Practice having positive thoughts and behaviour daily until they </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> become a habit.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Make all your friends feel there is something in them.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Look at the sunny side of everything.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> best.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> your own.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> achievements of the future.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Give everyone a smile.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Read the life histories of people who have turned a negative into a positive, adversity into advantage, stumbling blocks into stepping stones.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Some examples:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Some of the best music was composed by Beethoven. What was </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> his handicap? He was deaf. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Some of the best poetry written on nature was written by Milton. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> What was his handicap? He was blind. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">One of the greatest world leaders was US President Franklin </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> D.Roosevelt. What was his handicap? He served from </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">wheelchair.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Accept Responsibility. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When people accept responsibility for their behaviour and actions, their attitude toward life becomes positive. People with negative attitudes will blame the whole world, their parents, teachers, spouse, the economy and the government for their failures. You have to get away from the past. Dust yourself off, get back into the mainstream. Put your dreams together and move forward. Thinking of the positive things that are true, honest and good, will put us in a positive state of mind.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Accepting responsibilities involves taking calculated, not foolish, risks. It means evaluating all the pros and cons, then taking the most appropriate decision or action.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let me place an example here:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The retiring president of a company after a standard farewell, gave two envelopes marked No. 1 and No. 2 to the incoming president, and said, "Whenever you run into a management crisis you cannot handle by yourself , open envelope No. 1. At the next crisis, open the second one."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A few years later, a major crisis came. The president went into the safe and pulled out the first envelope. It said, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"Blame it on your predecessor."</b> A few years later a second crisis came. The president went for the second envelope, and it said, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"Prepare two envelopes for your successor."</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I shall end my blog here looking forward for a successful year for everyone.</span></div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-40234390181924744942011-12-23T00:26:00.000-05:002011-12-23T00:26:48.767-05:00What is Data Recovery<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I have been discussing in my previous posts related to Data Backups. I shall be throwing some light on Data Recovery which is the reason we do should be doing Data Backups. Data Backup should actually be called recovery solutions because backups come to rescue when disaster strikes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In the most simplest terms, “Data Recovery” can be described as process of recovering data from a hard disk drive, CD-Drive, USB sticks, external disks or any other media where the respective has failed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There are many ways data can be stored:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Hard disk Drives</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">CDs or DVDs</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">External Disks</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">USB sticks</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">RAID Servers</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">No matter how reliable these products may be but any electronic device can fail to function. Over and above, there are other reasons for loss or inaccessibility to data. To name a few:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Accidental deletion of data</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mishandling of devices</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Forgot passwords</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Natural disasters like floods, fire</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Formatting a disk</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">When data cannot be restored through any normal process, then comes “Data Recovery” process. Data recovery is the process to access safe, reliable data from that device.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Data Recovery Process</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Data Recovery can be simple in many cases and can be complex in certain cases. However any data recovery requires following general steps:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Identity</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> the media and find out the amount of damage. Many data recovery solutions companies can analyze and let you know if they can recover data. If the media is intact but maybe you have forgotten password for the device [like on a USB stick] you can try to recover using 3<sup>rd</sup> party software’s. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Estimate</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> how much work shall be involved, how much data can be recovered and what cost shall be involved. Data Recovery companies might give you a flat-rate, but try to go in more detail. Does the data recovered is important or your vital data is still unavailable.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Analyze</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> the recovered data to be sure the data is useable and matches your records. Make more than one copy of recovered data.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Return</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">: Always get your damaged media back. No matter what state it is.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Check</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> the reason what caused the media to be damaged. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Repair</b> any electrical or mechanical reason e.g. power supply for hard disk failure. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I have come across many <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/07/10-essentials-for-small-and-medium.html" target="_blank">SMBs</a> who want to implement backup system but unfortunately it is on a low priority, whereas it should be the other way. Only they take it seriously when disaster strikes and they need to run all around to get data recovered from nowhere </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I shall be giving an example of one of my clients, which was a pharmaceutical company. Pretty healthy profit making company. One fine day, their Server Hard disk drive crashed. Unfortunately, the backup system in place was manual system and some one had done backup about 2 weeks back. They were in a situation where in from no where they had to recover data from that hard disk. They had contacted number of consultants, paid huge amount of money but had no go. Ultimately they send their hard disk overseas, where one company stated data can be recovered, it took 2 weeks of time and ofcourse price was huge, but with no option they had to agree to that. Their data was recovered but had to go thru lots of hassle. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I bet you backup solution if implemented would have been much cheaper solution and the amount of time in terms of value is unmeasurable.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To summarize, if backup has been done and that too on regular basis, you are guaranteed to recover your data.</span></div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-5489560575673938682011-12-13T21:53:00.012-05:002011-12-13T22:05:36.100-05:00What are Synthetic Backups?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A synthetic backup is identical to a regular full backup in terms of data, but it is created when data is collected from a previous, older full backup and assembled with subsequent incremental backups. The incremental backup will consist only of changed information.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Let’s take an example to understand:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 147.6pt;" valign="top" width="197"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Incremental Backup</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 147.6pt;" valign="top" width="197"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">5<sup>th</sup> December</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 147.6pt;" valign="top" width="197"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">200 MB</span></div></td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A synthetic backup is needed if the backed up file needs copying as a single backup entity, or if it needs restoring.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span lang="EN">The contents of a synthetic backup differ depending upon the date chosen. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In our example two synthetic backups could be produced: one for 5<sup>th</sup> December; and one for 9<sup>th</sup> December. The data they contain would be different; the 5<sup>th</sup> December synthetic backup would not contain any changes to the file subsequent to that, whereas the 9<sup>th</sup> December synthetic backup would. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Information to know regarding Synthetic Backup</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-left: 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">It helps reduce the resources needed to backup. A full backup will require a set of server cpu cycles, some network bandwidth and backup media space. Each time you do a full backup you would need the same level of these three resources. By running an incremental backup you need only a fraction of the server CPU cycles, network bandwidth and additional backup media space. That reduces the backup window, the time needed to run the backup, considerably</span></div><div style="margin-left: 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Incremental Backups increases the time needed for a restore because now a restore would need to return to the user the original backup file and all subsequent incremental backup files, and then the restored file needs re-building to merge in each incremental backup file's data. It takes more time, uses more server cycles and network bandwidth. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">By consolidating the original backup file and incremental backup files into a single Synthetic Backup the restore speed is faster because just one file now needs streaming to the user. Also the server CPU cycles needed for the restore are cut back. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-left: 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Synthetic full backups are media-based; they read backup data from one media and simultaneously write (restore) the result to the new active media within the same media group. As a result, synthetic full backups require that at least two media drives for the same storage policy be available at the time the job is started.</span></div><ol start="5" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4.8pt 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Synthetic full backups consolidate data; they do not back up data from the client computer. You should therefore use synthetic full backups in addition to and not in place of any regularly scheduled <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/07/data-protection-best-practices.html" target="_blank">incremental or differential</a> backup jobs. </span></li>
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</div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-31246785961958547212011-11-23T22:27:00.000-05:002011-11-23T22:27:07.457-05:00What is BareMetal Data Protection<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I am writing this blog, as I would like to share with you all regarding Bare Metal data protection. Anyone who has lost system disk on a server, workstation or laptop has gone thru pain, trouble and frustration of restoring the computer to its original state. While it is necessary to recover lost files and data, the process to installing operating systems, re-downloading or installing all the applications, locating and entering their licenses keys or authorization codes can be time consuming. It invariably happens that it is impossible to bring back computer to its original state, where in you might have misplaced license keys or authorization codes for operating system or for any important software of yours. To overcome this trouble there are software products available which offer Bare Metal Data Protection.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">BareMetal is a technology through which </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">you can restore an entire system from backups to new hardware without requiring a reinstall of the operating system or requiring initialized disks. This</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> technology is designed to dramatically decrease the time and effort required to restore a computer to its original state in the event of a system failure. BareMetal protects not only the typical files and data of the user but also the operating system and applications. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">The following shall give better understanding between the two:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Data recovery to a new computer in a TYPICAL recovery environment</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Step1: Get new computer or fix existing computer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Step2: Install or reinstall operating system</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Step3: Install hardware Drivers</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Step4: Install Operating System Updates</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Step5: Reinstall Software Applications</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Step6: Setup Operating system and applications</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Step7: Restore backed up data</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Step8: Computer Ready to Use</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Data recovery to a new computer using BAREMETAL</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Step1: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;">Get new computer or fix existing computer</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Step2: Boot thru Bare metal media<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Step3: Restore Operating System, applications and data from previous operation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Graphical Understanding of the same can be accessed here</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/harshyamoza/bare-metal">http://www.slideshare.net/harshyamoza/bare-metal</a></span></div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-72810750848232246782011-11-11T23:36:00.002-05:002011-11-12T11:52:33.991-05:0011 Most Common Reasons why people don't do Backup<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My this November post is to highlight reasons people do not take backup. I thought of writing this post , as when I am with my clients for Software Implementation, I normally tend to discuss with them regarding their backup policy. Priority of the backup is low till the time there is a data loss disaster, and the moment it happens the best of the system is implemented, thereafter. Although, everyone wishes to take backup and understands the importance of the same, I would like to share most often excuses for not taking backup.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Think about backup as something like this, imagine you have 500 people working in a office building, there is a backup plan implemented for power failure but it is not used everyday, but the day on which there is a power failure it comes to rescue. Data backup is about protecting your data's future. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reason #1</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I am too busy to backup my computer, everyday. Once a month is good.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Imagine, you have backed up your data at the end of month, if the computer crashes during the month, you shall lose your valuable data. It’s recommended to do backups regularly. Automatic backups shall resolve your issue as system shall do auto backups when it finds internet connection.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reason #2</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We save our data to central dedicated high configuration server</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">No matter what configuration servers you store your data, backups are must. Backups are a second copy of the data, not the original data. In case, if your server goes down or are unable to access the same, backups can get you up and working on another system within no time.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reason #3 </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My computer shall not crash</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I have been using computer since long and I had no problems, why worry about backup. In today’s tech world, your computer might get infected through viruses or spyware which can crash your computer.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reason #4</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I don't know how to backup data</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To start off, first identify what is the most vital information that you would like to backup. There are various options for backup like you can start on CD-DVD / external hard drives / Zip drives / Online Backups.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reason #5 </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I run a small business, I don't have a lot of data. Backup is only for big companies.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Imagine, how it would feel if you have lost all your data one fine day. I bet that your database is many times more valuable than the cost of backing up your data, no matter what size of your business is.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reason #6</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Everything’s in my head, if I lose data not to worry</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I know my data and I can remember all my clients money I have to receive and make payments. Data is not only about paying and receiving money. It covers all your important information like contacts, emails, agreements, legal papers and others.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reason #7</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I work on laptop and carry laptop with me all day and night.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Your laptop is at most risk of data loss than your desktop computer. Laptops are most vulnerable to be stolen from your office, from airport, your car or any other location. If you have your data in laptop that is not backup, you are carry your only data.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reason #8</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I got a brand new computer, I don’t worry about backing up</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s impossible to predict when your computer shall crash. Even if you have new hard drive that does not mean it shall not fail, this is just another excuse not to take backup.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reason #9</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My assistant does backup of data, except the days he / she is not there.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If your assistant is on vacation for 2 weeks and it can most likely happen you might have a crash of computer during that time. You should have an automatic backup which does not require any manual intervention.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reason #10</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">All I need is my accounting data backup and that is done by my accountant once a year.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Taking accounting backup once a year is risky. If data loss occurs during the year means you have lost all the valuable records of your business which can throw you out of business within no time. If you consider the value of disaster that shall be heavy price to pay.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reason #11</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I don’t have staff to do backup</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I run my business by myself. I don’t have time to do backup. It can certainly happen that taking backup can be time consuming but in that case you should use <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/09/continuous-data-protection-cdp-backup.html" target="_blank">continuous online backups</a>, which shall make sure you do not miss backing up data.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bottom line is, when you work so hard in business, why not to take care of your data by implementing a successful backup system. Calculate yourself, how much data you need to backup and what cost shall be to do backup.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Committing yourself to do daily backups for your business shall help you during the time of disaster.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-21937874722710309562011-11-10T20:32:00.001-05:002011-11-11T22:31:49.155-05:003 types of Cloud Computing<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">I shall be discussing today more details related to Cloud computing. I had mentioned basic information related to Cloud Computing in my previous post which were “<a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-cloud-computing-and-how-it.html">What is Cloud computing and How it Works</a>” and “ <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/08/6-benefits-of-cloud-computing.html">6 Benefits of Cloud Computing</a>”. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">In this post I shall be focussing on types of cloud computing</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">There are 3 types of cloud computing</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Infrastructure as a Service [Iaas]</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Cloud computing infrastructure services delivers computer infrastructure as a service. Rather than purchasing servers, software, data storage centers or any network infrastructure , customers can buy those service from providers.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Examples for this service can Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2], IBM and other traditional IT vendors.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Platform as a Service [Paas]</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Platform as a Service provides virtualized servers on which existing applications can be run by users without having to worry about maintaining servers, operating systems, hardware, load balancing. It </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">facilitates deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and software layers. Examples can be </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Microsoft's Azure and Salesforce’s Force.com</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Software as a Service [Saas]</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The most widely known and used form of cloud computing. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Rather than purchasing servers, software, data-center space or network equipment, clients instead buy those resources as a fully outsourced service. Suppliers typically bill such services on a utility computing basis; the amount of resources consumed. Software as a Service provides all facility of traditional computing except instead of installing them locally, all the applications are accessed thru web browser. Ex</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">amples can be Salesforce.com, Google's Gmail and Apps.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-3458511970024963472011-10-29T17:55:00.000-04:002011-10-29T17:55:55.888-04:00Backup Solutions for SMBs - Part Two<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I shall be continuing my post from previous one discussing “<a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/10/backup-solutions-for-smbs-part-one.html">Backup Solutions for SMBs – Part One</a>”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tape Backups</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Tape backup is a form of data storage that is used to create a copy of the data stored in a system at a specific point in time, so that, in the event of a hard disk crash or comparable failure, the data will not be lost. The data are copied onto a magnetic tape, and can be permanently archived for future reference.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pros</span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Reliability.</em> </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Considering the structure of the tape media, the heads in the </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> tape media are separated from the media. Hence even if the head of the </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> tape fails; then also the media is still in the working condition.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Offsite Storage Available.</em></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> The second major advantage that is in </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> existence along with the usage of the tape drive is that the tapes are </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> usually stored as the offline. If there any natural disaster you always </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> have option available to restore as tapes are stored offsite.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> <em> </em></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Ease of Use.</em></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> You can find support for tapes, with some good software’s </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> available that make restore of data easy</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cons</span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Costly.</em> </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Although, once tape backups were the most economical backups </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> but now with hard disk prices dropping or online backup becoming cheaper, </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> this media now turns to be more expensive.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> <em> </em></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Unsecured Storage.</em></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Tapes are bound to be stolen. Not like online backup </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> where the data is stored in at a secured server.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You must find the same </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> tape drive to read tapes in the event of system loss (theft/fire).</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> <em> </em></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Difficult Restores.</em></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> The access time is more in case of the tape drives </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> than in comparison with the other media storage devices. Tapes are </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> sequential-access devices, and are best suited for full-system restores. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Finding and restoring individual documents can be a long, slow, and </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> cumbersome process.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blu-ray / DVD Backups</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Blu-ray discs are the most advanced optical media used today. Blu-rays are created through the use of a short wavelength laser and may consist of up to 16 layers containing 25 GB each. Since each such layer is six times more capacious than layers used in DVDs, Blu-rays appear to be perfect media to store data on.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Pros</span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> <em> </em></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Storage Capacity.</em></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Compared to DVD / CD, blu-ray have a much larger </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> capacity to store data.<u></u></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> <em> </em></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Easily Mobile.</em></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> It is also safer to store and to transport, as data backup </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> on a Blu-Ray </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">is less subject to damage than one on a pack of CD or </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> DVD disks.<u></u></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Cons</span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em>Manual Backups.</em></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Backups have to be done manually, which defeats the </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> purpose of backup. If you forget to take backups regularly, it’s as good as </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> no backup.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em>Security.</em></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Anyone can walk away with disks. Valuable information if stored </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> can be lost.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> <em> </em></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Offsite storage.</em> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No offsite automatic data storage. Storage of backups to </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> a secure offsite location is a critical part of backup strategy.</span></div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-29036245015606028892011-10-28T08:42:00.004-04:002011-11-05T16:39:34.049-04:00Backup Solutions for SMBs - Part One<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would like to discuss today about Backup options for SMBs [Small and Medium businesses]. As from my experience with my customers sometimes it becomes cumbersome to decide on backup system. One of the reason, could be not aware of all pros and cons of a backup system to be implemented.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This article shall discuss regarding those issues</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First things first, every business need to take backup regularly. Research shows failing to do backup can lead many companies going out of business within less than 12 months. It may happen that you may not be able to back up the entire contents of all the desktops, laptops or Servers in your business, in such a situation you shall have to prioritize. It’s important to backup data rather than software’s. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let’s summarize some of the backup options.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Online Backup</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is Online Backup? A backup technology that can be setup to automatically backup files from your computer to remote data servers using internet. You can access these files remotely.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pros</span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Automatic Backup.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Setup once and your backup shall always be taken. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> More reliability than manual backups.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Secured Storage.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> All data is stored using best encryption technologies </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> available which prevents from data been vandalized.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remote data access.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Get the flexibility of accessing your data from </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> anywhere.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No capital investment.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> You do not need to invest in purchasing high </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> end infrastructure and save on office space.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cost.</span></b></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Costs are low. You can start from as low as $2/GB.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>Cons</u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your computer system may slow down during backup.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em> </em>This should not </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> be problem as most of the businesses have robust systems.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You should properly analyze where your data shall be stored.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> As </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> generally your data should be stored in a safe and secure data center </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> location.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The company can go out of business.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em> </em>You should have clear information </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> what shall happen if company goes out of business.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NAS Devices</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Network Attached Storage [NAS] devices provide fast, simple and reliable data access. NAS devices can be used for multi-purposes like sharing data, storing and access files on network or for backup.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pros</span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><em>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></em></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em>Automatic Backup.</em> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You can set all desktop computers and servers to </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> do backup automatically. It takes out the hassle to do manual backups.<u></u></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Easy to Deploy.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> You can configure a NAS device quickly with little IT </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> knowledge.<u></u></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Availability.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Data available even during network outages as NAS devices </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> run </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">independently of network servers.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cons</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not Offsite is not alright.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Data gets stored in NAS device, which is a </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> server kind of computer. Data is not stored offsite. If you want to </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> you need to get connected to additional offsite server.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Slower Transfer speed.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> If you have multiple computers backing up to </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> NAS device, transfer speed can be slow, which in turn can slow down </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> your computer.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cost.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> NAS devices generally start for $200-$300 with low capacity but </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> if you are looking for a good one for your business it can be about $900 </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> or more.<u></u></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">External USB Hard Drive Backups</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An external USB hard drive provides easy to manage backup solution that caters from small to medium businesses. If you already possess a unused hard disk you can simply purchase an external USB drive enclosure to start using as a backup disk.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pros</span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><em>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></em></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em>Portable.</em> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">External USB drives are compact to carry and can be </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> connected to any computer to do backup. Once backed up </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> you can store the disk in an external location to safeguard from </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> natural disasters like theft, fire.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Connectivity.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> USB drives are available on every computer having </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> multiple ports. You can connect and disconnect USB hard drives </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> without having to restart computer – when connected it is </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> automatically detected by operating system as a drive letter and </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> ready to use.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Easy to Manage.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Compared to tapes, USB drives are easy to </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> manage. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cons</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No Remote Access of data.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Cannot access data remotely, </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> you have to carry hard disk with you. Inconvenient for someone </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> who requires data frequently.<u></u></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Storage Size.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Limited storage size. Compared to tape, external </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> USB drives are limited in space.<u></u></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Manual Backups.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> No automatic backup, you have to connect </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> device to each desktop to do backups. Imagine you have 50 </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> pc’s to backup. Purpose of backup gets defeated due to manual </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> backup.<u></u></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unsecured Storage.</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> As data is stored on a hard disk, anyone </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> can take the hard disk and walk away. Biggest risk of security.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;">I shall be discussing further regarding Tape Backups and Blu-ray Backups in my <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/10/backup-solutions-for-smbs-part-two.html">continuing next blog</a>.</div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-31508194577938118972011-10-20T15:40:00.002-04:002011-10-20T15:55:55.792-04:00Tape Backups<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I shall be discussing today regarding Tape backup. One of the oldest methods to do backup and still currently running, although I must say they are running out of time. Tape Backups are still available, though they are primarily used <span style="color: black;">by large, commercial operations, not by average users.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Tape backup is a form of data storage that is used to create a copy of the data stored in a system at a specific point in time, so that, in the event of a hard disk crash or comparable failure, the data will not be lost. The data are copied onto a magnetic tape, and can be permanently archived for future reference. Before the advent of the compact data disks, using a backup of this type was common for many businesses that relied heavily on computer databases.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Tape backup can be done manually or, with appropriate software, be programmed to happen automatically.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Tape backup can be used for backing up personal computers to backup up large amounts of data. It can also be used as part of storage area networks SAN in large organizations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Tape backup also includes the ability to restore data that has been backed up back to hard disk storage devices when needed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">There are two common tape rotations that balance performance, cost and safety. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The most simple and least expensive solution is the six-tape (or tape set) rotation. This consists of two alternating full backup tapes and one partial backup tape per day (based on a five-day work week). </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Expanding this to seven tapes gives you a separate full backup for off-site storage and keeps you from overwriting your only full backup copy.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">You can do Incremental Backups from Monday to Thursday, full backup on Friday and 1 backup to transfer at off-site location.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Following are some of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Tape Backup</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Advantages of Tape Backup</span></u></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reliability </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Considering the structure of the tape media, the heads in the tape media are separated from the media. Hence even if the head of the tape fails; then also the media is still in the working condition.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Offsite Storage Available</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> The second major advantage that is in existence along with the usage of the tape drive is that the tapes are usually stored as the offline. If there any natural disaster you always have option available to restore as tapes are stored offsite.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Ease of Use</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> You can find support for tapes, with some good software’s available that make restore of data easy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Disadvantages of Tape Backup</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Costly </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Although, once tape backups were the most economical backups but now with hard disk prices dropping or online backup becoming cheaper, this media now turns to be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>more expensive.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Unsecured Storage</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Tapes are bound to be stolen. Not like online backup where the data is stored in at a secured server.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You must find the same tape drive to read tapes in the event of system loss (theft/fire).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Difficult Restores</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> The access time is more in case of the tape drives than in comparison with the other media storage devices. Tapes are sequential-access devices, and are best suited for full-system restores. Finding and restoring individual documents can be a long, slow, and cumbersome process.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Tape backup was only one of the options we had for backup in previous days. But now we have various inexpensive alternatives for backup like <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-online-backup.html">Online Backup</a>, Disk Backups, <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-is-nas-network-access-storage.html">SAN/NAS devices</a>, de-duplication technologies.</span></div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-82728550589488344982011-10-10T14:33:00.020-04:002011-10-10T15:04:16.066-04:00Virtualization - Basics<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Virtualization is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span lang="EN">It is a method of running multiple independent virtual operating systems on a single physical computer.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Computers are vastly underutilized as they run a single operating system and a single application, virtualization lets you run multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that one physical computer across multiple environments.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">You already know a little about virtualization if you have divided your hard drive into different partitions. Different virtual machines can run different operating systems and multiple applications on the same physical computer. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">There are 3 different categories of Virtualization,</span><br />
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</div><ol style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Storage Virtualization:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> is pooling physical storage from multiple network storage devices so that they appear to be a single storage device. Storage virtualization is commonly used in Storage Area Networks <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-is-san-storage-area-networks.html">SANs</a>.</span></li>
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</div><ol start="2" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Network Virtualization:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">is the process of combining hardware and software network resources and network functionality into a single, software-based administrative entity.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">A virtual network treats all hardware and software in the network as a single collection of resources, which can be accessed regardless of physical boundaries. In simple terms, network virtualization allows each authorized user to share network resources from a single computer.</span></li>
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</div><ol start="3" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Server Virtualization:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Server machines that host files and applications for computer networks are powerful machines. Computer network administrators usually dedicate each server to a specific application or task. Most Servers use only a small fraction of their overall processing capabilities. The problem that network administrators can face is when computer network gets larger and complex, the servers begin to take up a lot of physical space. Server virtualization can resolve this issue. By using specially designed software, an administrator can convert one physical server into multiple virtual machines.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"></span></li>
</ol></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> There are processor manufacturers like Intel and AMD offer processors with the </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> capability of supporting </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">virtual servers already built in. The hardware does not </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> actually create virtual servers, software’s are required </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">to create one.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The usual goal of virtualization is to centralize administrative tasks while improving scalability and work loads. Virtualization helps in cost saving and provides flexibility.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"></div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-12330639883521523142011-10-01T21:00:00.005-04:002011-10-13T15:38:38.351-04:00How to Overcome Setbacks?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">My this post talks about something which almost me, you or any other person might have came across in their life and that is “Setbacks”. My last post which was not related to Data Security and Backup was <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-set-goals.html">“How to Set Goals”</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Our attitude determines how we look at a setback. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Setbacks can come in everyone’s life. Imagine you have worked hard for one of the most important exams along with all the mates in your class and when result comes out you find out you have not been able to clear exams, or you have worked hard to launch a product in market and was not accepted or unsuccessful as you would wish. These can be setbacks, but to a positive thinker, it can be a stepping stone to success. To a negative thinker, it can be a stumbling block.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Thomas Edison at age 67, lost his factory, to fire. Edison watched his lifetime effort go up in smoke and said “There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. We can start a new.” In spite of disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonograph.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I have come across a couple of real life examples related to setbacks. Let me share with you 2 of those. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">This example is of one of my buddies, who had 3 paint factories and about 100 people working for him. His business was doing well and I use to go for our Software Implementation. Down the line after couple of years, [we were not connected with each other as once the software was implemented they had decided to go by themselves], I incidentally had got a contract to implement software in a nearby company of the same. As, I went the first day at the new implementation company, I saw the paint factory was kind of closed. During, implementation I had a discussion regarding the paint factory, one of the employees their stated the company and owner went bankrupt and the owner once who had a fleet of cars, was running a small paint trader shop in the nearby area. I was shocked and went on to meet the owner. We had a cup of tea together and ran through some emotions. Anyways, life moves on, the man had courage, now he has setup back to his own factory. Although not 3 which he had before but he has started 1 now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">It takes lot of courage and character to stand up from this situation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Setbacks are inevitable in life. A setback can act as a driving force and also teach us humility. In grief you will find courage and faith to overcome the setback. We need to learn to become victors, not victims. Fear and doubt short-circuit the mind. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Ask yourself after every setback: What did I learn from this experience? Only then will you be able to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"></span> </span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The journey to being your best is not easy. It is full of setbacks. Winners have the ability to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>overcome and bounce back with even greater resolve.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">My second scenario is of someone whom I know for years. The guy was a franchisee owner of a fortune 500 branded company in the field of Electronics. Again, I had done Software Implementation for them and the owner had a close relation with me. One fine day, for whatever reason I heard he had lost his franchisee the company with whom he was doing business. That was not it, he had gone in debt of few millions. When you tie up with any major companies as franchisee they ask for deposit amount and stocks to keep, despite all debt already mounted, to come out of this situation he tied up another company. When I met him the last time, about a year and a half back he had cleared all his debt and was back to profit wheels.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">These people had setbacks in their lives, they could have hung up, cried and never stand up, but instead of that they decided to take challenge. Even, today I speak to these people and enjoy discussing good and rough times of life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">When problems seem insurmountable, quitting seems to be the easiest way out. Winners are struck but not destroyed. We all have had setbacks in life. Failing does not mean we are failures.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Hope I was able to send my message across. Feel free to share this article if you like.</span></i> </div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-73257704059863143222011-09-29T13:29:00.000-04:002011-09-29T13:29:09.525-04:00What is SAN [Storage Area Networks]?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A SAN or Storage Area Networks is a high performance storage network that transfers data between servers and storage devices and is separate network from LANs or WANs. It is used to connect all storage resources to various servers. Storage devices such as NAS, RAID, tape libraries or disk arrays are connected to servers using Fibre Channel. Fibre Channel is a highly reliable, gigabit interconnect technology that enables simultaneous communication among workstations, mainframes, servers, data storage systems and other peripherals.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A SAN's architecture works in a way that makes all storage devices available to servers on a LAN or WAN. These storage devices can be accessible from any server in the larger network. </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Who should use SAN</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">As stated above a SAN makes all your storage device connected together through a centralized storage network, rather than buying large servers with tons of internal disk space, a SAN would make sense for your company.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Better disk utilization</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">SAN gives you ability to manage storage resources at network level and assign that storage more intelligently to the servers that need it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Better Disaster Recovery solution</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If you have mission critical applications running on Servers then you definitely need a SAN as you can't afford server to go down. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Multiple Critical Applications</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">SAN networks are used most often by organizations that have a lot of data that needs to be accessed quickly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">More flexibility</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">One of the main features of SAN network is flexibility, Because it is made of different storage devices, it can perform tasks away from the servers involved. This means that SAN hard drives can communicate with each other and perform routine backups or updates without taking up bandwidth or accessing outside servers at all. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span><u><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Who does not require SAN</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A SAN may make sense for your company only if you have trained IT staff, budget and mission critical applications running. If your storage requirements fall in one of the following categories, then you may not require SAN.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Only have a single application</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If you have a single application running SAN shall not be recommended.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Only have few Servers</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Main benefit of SAN comes from centralized storage management. You may gain speed and reliability benefits from SAN for few servers, but the cost shall not be justifiable.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-65933473756990888612011-09-23T09:01:00.003-04:002011-09-23T13:14:07.400-04:00How to Backup Workstations<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">I have discussed with many of my clients related to workstation backups and have found, they have trouble finding a solution for the same. Today, this post shall throw light on workstations, laptop backups. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Firstly, you should know in your organization how users are saving data. Can they save data locally or there are share drives which is given access to each user to save their data. If data is being saved locally, then you should have a system to backup that data, as most users might save their valuable data on local disk and never think of backing them unless, one fine day they lose their data. The most vulnerable are laptops or any other PDA devices used by Executives, Marketing Staff or in that case any employee of your company.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">I shall be discussing in this post what options are available for Workstations or laptops or PDA devices Backups.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">End User takes Backup to a backup device attached</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Centralized Server Backups</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Image or Snapshot Backups</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">More details regarding each of these options</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">End User takes Backup</span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">There are various media options available to backup at the end user. You can provide them with a CD-RW / an external media or drive or even get online backup software installed. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">If you decide to give the end user a media disk or a backup device to do backup, the most common problem that occurs with this is that the backups will be done infrequently or at worst the backup won’t be done at all.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Using Online Backup shall resolve this option up to a certain extent. A piece of Software shall have to be installed on each machine. This Software gives you configuration options and select files you need to backup and send data to destination Server.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Imagine, you have to backup 100-500 or even more workstations to backup, going thru this process can be challenging and time consuming, else you have to rely on the users who are using the PC to install and configure backups. If you have given limited access to your users on their computers they may not be able to install software.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Centralized Server Backups</span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">The preferred backup option is that the workstation backups can be centrally controlled thru Server. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">In this method, backup Software is installed on Server and all configuration is done thru Server including setup for workstations. No software installation required on workstations, no configuration to be done on workstations. Backups are in full control through Server administrator and they can setup scheduled or <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/09/continuous-data-protection-cdp-backup.html">CDP</a> to do backups.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Benefits of Centralized Server Backups</span></u></i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Easy to setup and manage</span></i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Server based backups are easier to setup as you do not need to go to each computer to install software or configure, you can do it all from one point. Gives you better control on the system.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Saves time</span></i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">No different software versions for Server and workstations. No need to deal with multiple operating systems, no need to researching compatibility issues.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Minimizes maintenance & support</span></i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Considering to use one backup solution centrally shall minimize maintenance, support and makes the backup routines more manageable.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Less resource-intensive</span></i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Traditional backup software’s which require to be installed on each computer you want to backup, takes processing power from Servers. In turn, that slows downs other applications working on Server.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Image or snapshot of workstation </span></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">This is another way to do backup of workstation. A Snapshot is a read only copy of the data set at a point of time and allow applications to continue writing to their data. In other words, </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">once the initial snapshot is taken of a data set, subsequent snapshots copy the changed data only, and use a system of pointers to reference the initial snapshot. This method of pointer-based snapshots consumes less disk capacity than if the data set was repeatedly cloned.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">However, all previous snapshots must be available if complete archiving or recovery of all the data on a network or storage medium is needed.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">There are various software’s available for each of these categories. Do your research and get control of all your data including workstations.</span></i></em></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"></div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-74625649848417746122011-09-16T22:12:00.000-04:002011-09-16T22:12:40.880-04:00Understanding Data De-duplication<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">What is De-duplication</span></span></u></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">De-duplication explained in simple terms could be, the managing software will look at data, compare it to existing data that is already stored and if that data is identical, instead of storing that second copy of data the de-duplication technology establishes a link to the original data. Rather than storing the whole file it establishes a link which takes less storage space.</span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Imagine if you needed 100TB's of storage but one of your providers only needed to supply you with 50TB because they had this technology, clearly that provider would have a significant advantage in winning your business. </span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">How it works</span></span></u></b></span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">For example, suppose a company has 100 employees and each one has their mailbox. If an email which is 5 MB is send to each of these employees, the data stored shall be 500 MB. Instead, in de-duplication that same shall be stored as 5 MB for the first and thereafter other instances shall establish as a link to that first instance.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">In the above example, a 500 MB storage can be reduced to 5 MB.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> Data de-duplication ensures that only the unique data is saved to disk. Subsequent iterations of the data are only saved as references which point to the saved copy, so that end-users still see their own files in place.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Why de-duplicate - Benefits </span></span></u></b></div><div style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Basically, de-duplication as the term suggests, is to remove duplicate data that keeps getting stored over and over again consuming lot of unnecessary storage space, power, internet bandwidth and increasing costs for resources to maintain.</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Some of the benefits are listed as below:</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Lowers storage costs since eliminating redundant data</span></div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ideal for organizations wishing to backup, consolidate and improve </span></div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> performance during backups.</span></div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">In cases where the data is being backed up or archived over and over </span></div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> again, the realized storage savings get better and better, achieving 20:1</span></div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Eliminating redundant data can significantly shrink storage requirements </span></div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> and improve bandwidth efficiency.</span></div><div style="background: white; margin-left: 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="font-size: small;">Three kinds of de-duplication technology</span></span></u></b></div></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">File de-duplication.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> Only one copy of each identical file is stored. This </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> technology is also known as Single File Instance technology. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Block-level de-duplication.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> Divide the information into blocks and </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> only one copy of each identical block is stored.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Byte-level de-duplication.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> Analyze the content of the information to</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> be de-duplicated at byte-level and store only the unique data. This is</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> the only technology which guarantees fully redundant elimination.</span></div></span></span></span>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-37019182941818571192011-09-13T11:04:00.001-04:002011-09-13T20:14:09.442-04:005 Advantages of Online Backup for SMBs<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Online Backup offers several advantages for small and medium businesses [SMBs]. The major benefit is disaster recovery as data is stored offsite. As <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/07/10-essentials-for-small-and-medium.html">SMBs</a> cannot afford or do not require large storage facilities or datacenters, by paying a monthly fee they can get enterprise class storage. They can implement hassle-free backup cycle in place. Data Recovery can be fast and easy and whenever required.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Other benefits are listed as below:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Automatic, No Manual Backups</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">One of the biggest reasons for SMBs to go for Online Backup is that the backup process is automatic. As SMBs may not have a dedicated person for Backup or even for IT this is such a great asset for them. The Software provides the facility to setup once and backup keeps working. No need to remember or do manual backups. People tend to forget manual backup and even if they do backups it’s not everyday. You can concentrate on your business development rather than taking backup or reminding staff to do backup. You can setup a schedule to do backup or if your software has <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/09/continuous-data-protection-cdp-backup.html">CDP</a> it shall keep doing backup automatically.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Secure, Encrypted Storage</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Another major concern for SMBs is storing their data. Many business users store their sensitive information like financial records or taxation documents in unsecured storage like CDs, external drives or USB sticks. What happens if the sensitive information is stolen? Online Backup removes this risk through powerful encryption and secured storage facilities wherein only the user has access to their data.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Affordable, Simple Monthly fee</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">No investment in buying backup equipments. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">There are no ongoing media costs or staff costs. Running costs are limited to paying a monthly fee. No need to invest time in managing backups and rely on CDs or other backup devices.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Convenient, Ease of Use</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Online Backup Software’s are designed in simple format as can be setup and used by any average consumer. You do not need to be a computer expert to take backups. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">For SMBs, it's simple and affordable. It’s worry-free backup.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Easily Accessible, Remote Data Access</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Your data is accessible to you anytime from anywhere where you have internet access. While you are travelling or you wish to work from home or any location, no need to carry USB sticks or external drives. This feature is really very handy, instead of going for huge investments to setup your infrastructure like Servers, Security checkpoints, large internet bandwidth and maintaining the same, Online Backup providers give this facility without any complexities.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-71402578179785621312011-09-05T22:00:00.000-04:002011-09-05T22:00:38.339-04:00What features should the Online Backup Software Provide?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As discussed in my previous post regarding <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/08/9-things-to-look-for-when-choosing.html">9 things to look for when choosing online backup</a>, I thought to go further more detail regarding what features should be in the Software part of Online Backup. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Software plays important role in transmitting data from Source Computer to the destination Backup’s Providers datacenter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Features to expect in Backup Software</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Automatic Backup</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Software should do automatic backup. Backups can be scheduled wherein, the Software has been programmed to do backup at given time and day or days. You can define what files to backup and how often. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Software may have other option of backup which is called Continuous Data Protection [CDP], where data is backed up continuously, mean to say as soon as data is saved it gets backed up, leaving almost no room for loss of data. The backup setup should be easy, convenient and fast.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ease of Use</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Software should be easy to setup. For example, software should offer the facility to select all docs / xls files or for that matter all known extension files automatically throughout your drives, so that you do not miss out any of those important files.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Incremental and Compressed Backups</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Initially full backup can be done, but there after backups should be in incremental and compressed form which shall greatly reduce the network bandwidth usage. <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/07/data-protection-best-practices.html">Incremental backups</a> shall transfer only the modified portions of file.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Encryption </span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Software should provide Bank Grade Encryption, which is the most reliable encryption technology. As data shall be transmitted over the internet encryption has to be best, which shall keep data secure. Backup providers generally use industry standard encryption technologies like Blowfish, triple DES, or 128 bit.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Remote Data Access</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Your Data should be accessible whenever you want. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Software should provide you convenience of accessing your data from any computer with internet access. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Open files</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Open files are files which are in use. Software should have the capability to backup files which are in use. </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This feature is especially useful in backing up exclusively locked files, such as for example, the Outlook 'pst file' in case of Outlook backups. </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Most Software have this facility but very important to confirm cause if it does not that means any files when in use shall be skipped. The more important part to clarify is that it supports all operating systems you use.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">File Versioning</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Multiple file versioning should be supported, where in you get option to save more than one copy of the same file. This can be useful in case if you have entered incorrect information in the updated data and want to restore older version of the same file. Most Software give options to have 10 or even is user-defined <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[wherein you as a user can define number of versions]</i> versions of the same file, select carefully as having more copies of data can increase your data storage on the server which can cost you.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Easy Restores</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When required, data should be available within few clicks. In case, if required to restore old file versions, the software should be able to clearly provide information regarding software version, date and time backup taken. The restored file should not overwrite existing file.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As restores shall be quick, less downtime = more efficient work. No specialist or IT people required to restore data, it so simple anyone can do it.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Manage LAN Backups</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Imagine you have 200 computers and want to backup all the PCs. Installing Software on every PC and to configure backups on each workstation can be hell of task. Instead, if your Backup Software can be configured by installing on a Server or a computer for all the workstations, how easy it would be to configure and support backups. Managing Backup Software from a single Server can be beneficial in multiple ways:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 108pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Easier to support</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 108pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">No need for internet on each PC</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 108pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Less resource-intensive</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 108pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Saves time to manage</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">More features can also be confirmed depending on your database you use. For example, some of them can be listed as below:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Exchange Server Backup</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Exchange Server Mail Level Backup</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">MSSQL Server Backup</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Active Directory Backup</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Outlook Backup</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">MySQL Server Backup</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oracle database Backup</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">MS Share Point Server</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Overall, your Backup Software should be fast, simple and easily manageable. The most important factor shall be Support provided for the Software. It may not be possible for all the features to be in a product, yet if it covers max number of features you are looking for and Support is good you can bank on the same.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-4976360254946700112011-09-05T15:15:00.004-04:002011-09-05T15:16:19.566-04:00What is NAS [Network Attached Storage]?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><u>What is NAS?</u></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Network Attached Storage [NAS] is a computer data storage connected to multiple computers in a environment providing data access to heterogeneous networks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NAS provides fast, simple and reliable data access. NAS solutions are suitable for small and mid-sized businesses needing large data space accessed by multiple users over the network. For example, if there are about 50 or more users in a company, a NAS Server provides a central place to securely store and share all of your data. NAS can be thought of as a hard drive or multiple hard drives that are available to your entire network rather than for just one computer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Especially when <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/07/10-essentials-for-small-and-medium.html">SMBs</a> do not have dedicated IT departments, NAS is easy to deploy and manage. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">NAS is often made as a computer device – a specialized computer built from the ground up for storing and serving files.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">An NAS solution may also offer print-server capabilities, which lets multiple users easily share a single printer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Benefits of NAS</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sharing of data by all the users on the network<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Store and access files from any pc on the network<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Backup and protect your data with RAID<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">A NAS solution may include multiple hard drives in a RAID (Redundant </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> Array of Independent Disks)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">NAS device runs independently of network server, the storage remains </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> accessible even during network server outages.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Easy to deploy. You can configure a NAS Server quickly and with little </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> IT</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> knowledge.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Automatically and continuously backup data to give you peace of mind</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 9.75pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="color: black;">Overall, NAS system allows you to consolidate storage, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing costs, simplify storage administration and data backup and recovery.</span></span></div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-87556047996118049102011-08-29T21:13:00.001-04:002011-08-29T21:15:30.200-04:006 Benefits of Cloud Computing<div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">In my previous post I had discussed regarding <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-cloud-computing-and-how-it.html">What is cloud computing and How it works</a>. In my today’s post I shall highlight some of the benefits of cloud computing.</span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Pay what you Use</span></b></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Cloud Computing reduces your hardware, network management and Software expenses. In addition in cloud computing, you pay for what you use. No need for IT to worry to pay for future software updates.</span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 150%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">More Storage Space</span></b></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/07/10-essentials-for-small-and-medium.html">SMBs</a> can get more storage space for less cost. Instead of building large data centers and maintaining them you can rent space, with enterprise class infrastructure. No Physical space occupied in your premises.</span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Automatic Updates.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"> <br />
No longer IT personnel need to worry about keeping software up to date. </span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Flexibility</span></b></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Depending on the demand, you can increase how much of the cloud resources you use without the need for assigning specific hardware for the job, or just reduce the amount of resources assigned to you when they are not necessary.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Access from Anywhere</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
Access your data from anywhere. Employees need not be in office to access their data, data is always available instantly, wherever they are.</span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Ø</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Allows IT to Shift Focus</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
No longer having to worry about constant server updates and other computing issues.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Freedom from routine tasks allows redirection of staff time to value-driven projects with greater impact on productivity and profitability.</span></div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-52419252857526301652011-08-26T20:00:00.000-04:002011-08-26T20:00:52.481-04:00What is Cloud Computing and How it Works<div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Back to original blog topic after a bit of refresher from previous post for <a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-set-goals.html">How to Set Goals</a>. The post received overwhelming response from all around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">I was having a discussion with a group of IT Department where we were undergoing implementation of our Finance Software. The company had about 1000 workstations and as far as I can remember, they had about 25 Servers, heterogeneous network.</span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">We were having discussion regarding the more number of workstations get added, the more the company has to spent on Software’s to be purchased, servers to be added or increase their capacity and overall infrastructure to be upgraded. They were looking for a solution that can help reduce the managing of network and a way thru which people can remotely access any application without heavily investing in infrastructure by the company itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Enter here, solution was “Cloud Computing”.<span style="color: red;"></span></span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">What is Cloud Computing?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></b></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Cloud computing in simple terms, could be instead of installing a bunch of software’s on one computer, you just have to install a single application. When you click that application, it shall get you connected to a web-based service which hosts all your programs you would need for your job. Servers owned by other companies or providers, shall run all the Software’s required for the company right from e-mail to Enterprise Software’s to complex data analysis programs. This is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cloud Computing.</b></span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Think of it this way, Cloud computing is like having a metered cab at your disposal whenever you want it, you only pay for what distance you travel, you don’t pay no maintenance costs or any other costs associated with cab. You pay based on where you want to go that day and it’s so economical you can vary the length of your trips and not worry about the costs. You can even change the looks of the cab as you do not share it with anyone else.</span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The first step, in any cloud is to adapt applications to run as virtualization.</span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the traditional model of computing</span> </b></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Both data and software are fully contained on the user's </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">computer</span> </div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span> </div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">In cloud computing</span> </b></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span> </div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The user's computer may contain almost no software or data </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(perhaps a minimal operating system and web browser only </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">a</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">nd a application to connect to remote </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">machine), s</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">erving </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">as little more than a display terminal for processes </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">occurring </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">on a </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">network of computers far away.</span></div><br />
<div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">How it Works</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span> <span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Step 1</strong></span></div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A Cloud User requires a laptop, desktop, Smartphone or other computing device to get connected to one of the Cloud Service Providers over the Internet.</span></div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Step 2</strong></span></div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The cloud provides access to applications, Software’s, operation Systems, Servers all that is required is by the user. The cloud provides server-based applications and all data services to the user, with output displayed on the client device.</span></div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Step 3</strong></span></div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">For example, if a user intends to create a word document, the cloud provider offers suitable application for the same, user opens the application on cloud, does his work and saves the same on the cloud providers Servers</span></div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Step 4</strong></span></div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At the end, you disconnect from your Cloud Service provider </span></div><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt;">What do you pay for?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></div></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">You pay by the resource used which is called utility computing.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Resources are:</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">Ø</span><span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Servers</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">Ø</span><span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Operating Systems</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">Ø</span><span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Applications</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv437545733msolistparagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt;">Ø</span><span style="font-size: 7pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Software’s etc.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some Cloud Providers also have their Unit of Measure setup which includes charges for space, hydro, equipment usage, Operating System Usage, etc.... They may have fixed charges For example, 1 Unit of Measure= 0.05 cents.</span></strong><br />
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</div></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"></div><div class="yiv437545733msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Cloud Computing is a service that is based on “pay as you go” else other words pay for what you use resources. Imagine, you do not spend any amount of money on Servers or Software purchases or platforms. You just have to subscribe any of the cloud service providers like Google, Amazon, Microsoft etc…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I shall be listing one more post for Benefits of Cloud Computing.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Till then hope it hasn't got much cloudier....</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></div></span> </div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-80557157797345020172011-08-24T11:09:00.018-04:002011-08-26T20:02:40.947-04:00How to Set Goals<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">This Post has nothing to do with “Data Backup or Security of Data”. This post is an exception I tried to pull off after writing a bunch of posts related to “Data Backup and Security”. It talks about “Goal Setting” which is useful for any person irrespective of what field you come from, your qualification, etc.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The most important factor to understand in Goal Setting is e</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">ven if we miss your goals, it does not make you a failure. Delay does not mean defeat. It only means one has to replan to accomplish one's target. Most people after they set a goal and are unable to reach for whatever reason start thinking it’s worthless to go through this process and start thinking “nothing goes my way”. The moment you start thinking this you have created even a bigger problem.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Let me share with you something which I had came across couple of years back with one of my clients. I was invited to one of my clients Office location as he required assistance for our Software. When I entered his Office area and started helping him with his issues, at the same time I saw some big stickers all around on his walls. They were something like this, “I want to purchase a new Office in next 2 years”, “My Goal is to get a new car within next 12 months”, “I want to add 20 marketing people for my products within next 6 months”. After I completed helping him with his setup, I asked him regarding all the stickers, he told me it reminds him everyday what his goals are, and with these he had build his business which was worth couple of millions, with a person having minimal capital to start-up. This is what goals can do. Are you ready to setup your goals? Is it tough? Your call.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Would you sit in a train or a plane without knowing where it was going? Ofcourse not. Then why do people go through life without having any goals?<span style="color: black;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">If you ask most people what is their one major objective in life, they would probably give you a vague answer, such as, "I want to be successful, be happy, make a good living," or “I want to make my family happy” and that is it. They are all wishes and none of them are clear goals.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Goals must be</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">SMART:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">1. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">S</b>--specific. For example, "I want to buy house in next 14 months."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">2. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">M</b>--must be measurable. If we cannot measure it, we cannot accomplish it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">3. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A</b>--must be achievable. Achievable means that it should be out of reach enough to be challenging but it should not be out of sight, otherwise it becomes disheartening.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">4. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">R</b>--realistic. For example “If someone states I want to buy 2 houses in 6 months that would be somewhat unrealistic.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">5. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">T</b>--time-bound. There should be a starting date and a finishing date.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Why are Goals Important?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">On the best sunny day, the most powerful magnifying glass will not light paper if you keep moving the glass. But if you focus and hold it, the paper will light up. That is the power of concentration. A man was traveling and stopped at an intersection. He asked an elderly man, "Where does this road take me?" The elderly person asked, "Where do you want to go?" The man replied, "I don't know." The elderly person said, "Then take any road. What difference does it make?"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">How true. When we don't know where we are going, any road will take us there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Enthusiasm without direction is like wildfire and leads to frustration. Goals give a sense of direction. Goals must be set in positive tone. </span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Why Don't More People Set Goals?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">There are many reasons, including:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">1. A pessimistic attitude--Always seeing the pitfalls rather than the possibilities.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">2. Fear of failure--What if I don't make it? People feel subconsciously that if they don't set goals and if they don't make it, then they haven't failed. But they are failures to begin with.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">3. A lack of ambition--This is a result of our value system and lack of desire to live a fulfilled life. Our limited thinking prevents us from progress. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">4. A fear of rejection--If I don't make it, what will other people say?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">5. Procrastination--"Someday, I will set my goals." The most common attitude of people. Stop Procrastination. Get in habit of doing it now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">6. Low self-esteem--Because a person is not internally driven and has no inspiration.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">7. Ignorance of the importance of goals--Nobody taught them and they never learned the importance of goal-setting.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">8. A lack of knowledge about goal-setting--People don't know the mechanics of setting goals. They need a step-by-step guide so that they can follow a system.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">A person who aims at nothing never misses. Aiming low is the biggest mistake. Winners see objectives, losers see obstacles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Our goals should be high enough to motivate yet realistic enough to avoid discouragement. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Goals without action are empty dreams. Actions turn dreams into goals. Just like a camera needs focus to take a good picture, we need goals to make a productive life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Remember:</span></u></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Knowledge helps you to reach your destination provided you know what the destination is.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><u><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Things to Start with</span></strong></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Write down your goals</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Read your goals everyday once in morning and once at night </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> before going to bed</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Make sure the goals should be time framed</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Goals should be divided in short-term which are to be </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">done </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">within next </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">6-12 months / long-term within 1-3 years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Excerpts taken from You Can Win by Shiv Khera</span></i></div>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706906023115624276.post-91802454307746464872011-08-19T10:52:00.018-04:002011-08-23T15:12:48.293-04:00How Reliable is Datacenter Storage?<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As I discussed in my previous post regarding “<a href="http://secondsourcedatabackups.blogspot.com/2011/08/9-things-to-look-for-when-choosing.html">Things to look for when choosing Online Backup</a>”, I thought to go in more detail for the type of facilities the Datacenter should have.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As such datacenters are nicely build, but still you should have a look whether it covers the minimum requirements. How do you get assurance that your data backup stored is in safe and trustworthy place.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let’s go thru some of the features which a standard data center should have</span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Physical Security 24x7x365</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Datacenter should have onsite 24x7 security to protect physical access. For access of datacenter there should be multiple layers of security and should have the following security measures</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On premise Security guards </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Biometric system for accessing Datacenter</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CCTV cameras with recorders</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">All equipments should be checked before entering datacenter</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Environmental Controls</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Datacenter should be environmentally secured. Is the Datacenter built on raised floors, humidity control systems to run in optimal conditions all the times. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">VESDA [Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus] smoke detectors are configured to generate multiple alarms to provide the time needed to help minimize or prevent fire loss. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Inquire in case if there any of the following scenarios how is datacenter equipped?</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fire Protection</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Flood Control</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Earthquakes</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Onsite Support</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Datacenter should have IT experts, professionals to manage and provide support to the clients. Support staff can help you lower your operating costs by providing their experience in troubleshooting minor technical issues, such as</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Software Installation and Support</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Server Installation</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Connectivity and Configuration with data center</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Initial Setup</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Upgrade Services</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Network Connectivity</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Datacenter should have best-in-class infrastructure. Datacenters should have network uptime of almost 100%.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Integrated Security Services should be provided to clients like</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Firewall</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Intrusion protection</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">VPNs</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Virtual LANs<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Enterprise class Rack System</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Power Management</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Highly reliable power source is required for smooth functioning of datacenter. The responsibility of datacenter is to keep functioning even though there is a power outage as their customers mission critical data is stored.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In case of power failure thru public utility the datacenter should be equipped with</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">UPS availability</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Batteries</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 90pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Diesel generators</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The above can help you determine whether the Datacenter is reliable, safe and secure to store your data.</span>Harshyam Ozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02666923519810767029noreply@blogger.com0