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Gumbo and Security
I love gumbo and my wife and friends love the gumbo I make. I have computers in my home office. I am an Eagle Scout. These three things, combined with an experience from college, make me have and test...
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Back up and encrypt
A little over thirty years ago I managed a small mini-computer. We had half a dozen dumb terminals (ADM 3a’s to be specific), a printing terminal and a couple other CRT devices. The total disk storage...
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Don’t Ignore Your Cloud Servers, Because No News Might Be Bad News
One of my consulting clients made a disturbing discovery last month. This happened in-house, it would have been even more likely in the cloud. One machine holds an Oracle database and some other...
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No News Might Be Bad News, Here’s How to Keep An Eye On Your Cloud Servers
Last week I told you how someone had a bad scare when they realized that a backup job had failed for almost a year, but they didn’t realize this because the error reports were not being relayed to a...
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My New Year’s Resolution: Use Cloud Backup
It’s the time of year to think about those plans for making the next year better — lose weight, quit smoking, learn some new skill. Here’s what I’m urging people to do: take advantage of very...
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Catching Up At Year-End
Sometimes during the week between Christmas and New Year’s I spend some time doing those things that I should have done earlier in the year. I have a foot high stack of magazines to go through and a...
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Keeping Your New Year’s Resolution With Cloud Backup
Last month I urged you to take advantage of very inexpensive and easy-to-use cloud storage services and protect your precious personal data — digital photographs and more. Amazon Glacier seems to be...
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