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“There is no such thing as a digital strategy, just strategy in a digital world. “And while the digital age is creating a degree of uncertainty for some organizations, it is also opening the doors to exciting possibilities and ushering in an era of infinite potential. ~ Scott Gibson, Group Executive Digital Practice, Dimension Data. Learn how to maximize your startup’s potential. IdeaGist’s digital incubator can help you open doors to infinite possibilities. Find out what ma
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The blockchain cannot be described just as a revolution. It is a tsunami-like phenomenon, slowly advancing and gradually enveloping everything along its way by the force of its progression. ~William Mougay Find out how to maximize your startup’s growth potential with IdeaGist’s virtual online incubator and virtual blockchain. The experts at IdeaGist help founders and their teams grow and scale a business to achieve their startup goals. Visit IdeaGist to learn what we do and how we do it.
You’ve got to respect the endurance of the hard disk drive data storage device, first introduced by IBM in 1953 for commercial use before becoming the crucial technology for accommodating ever-expanding data stores accumulating on commercial and personal computer. Despite its imperfections (“click of death,c” anyone?) the HDD and its ability to quickly store and retrieve digital information using rapidly rotating disks (platters) has defined storage technology for more than 50 years.
From Toronto to North Florida, the winter of 2014 is turning out to be particularly rough, and the spike in winter storm-related power outages pose a heightened risk of data loss to unprotected computers. With no end in sight to the ice and snow blanketing most of the northeast, if you haven’t already taken measures to protect your home and business computers from power surges and outages, now is the time. Too many people assume that when power to their computer is cut, today’s sophisticated m
Over the past few days, you may have received an email from one or more popular websites—Yahoo, Google, AOL or others—advising you to change the passwords on your accounts. In fact yesterday I received an email warning from Pinterest to change the password on my own recently opened account due to a possible security breach caused by something called the Heartbleed bug. The newly discovered and already notorious Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2014-0160 bug, otherwise known as the Heart
If you’re serious about maintaining data access and protection, you should consider adding RAID backup to your computer system’s data backup and recovery system. Over a relatively short amount of time, RAID storage devices have made their way into the mainstream of data protection arsenals in a world that lives and breathes by its data. The redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks (RAID) was developed to provide a single, higher capacity, faster volume drive to replace slower, mo
East Hartford has struggled with high unemployment rates for years, but thanks to a dedicated team of data recovery experts, 15 jobs in East Hartford were saved after a weather-caused power surge threatened the loss of crucial stored data at the Popcorn Movie Posters Company located in East Hartford. Proven Data Recovery experts were called in to help salvage critical data when the professional printing company’s Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) device was unexpectedly harmed in the
If your hard drive crashes and your data disappears, your first instinct may be to try every data recovery procedure you can think of. Since the first data recovery attempt provides the best chance of successfully extracting your files from a damaged hard drive, it’s important to be familiar with the best practices for weighing your options before attempting any data recovery procedures on your own. If the lost data is not that important to you and you want to test your hard drive recovery skil
Your data is essential to keeping your business running. It is what drives the need for storage technology that provides agility, lowers your risk of data loss, and lowers the costs of risk mitigation. Heading into 2014, it’s important to know your system is safe from vital data loss; to protect your data effectively and economically, we’ve put together some guidelines on some of the most important data storage and recovery technologies available, and a basic explanation of each for you to kno
Ever wonder what affect a polar vortex might have on your laptop if you leave it in the car overnight? Are you guilty of leaving your laptop in the car on a cold winter day, or turning your office heat off to lower utility bills on a long weekend? Leaving your tech devices in cold weather conditions can severely damage your laptop requiring data recovery and other electronic equipment, and permanently destroy data. The kind of extreme cold many states are experiencing this winter can reduce ba
If you think about it, there’s no time like the holidays to help your customers simplify their data recovery and backup plans. The holiday season is perhaps the most hectic time of the year; from the shopping and gift wrapping, to meal planning and execution, to spending time with family and friends, few people have any spare resources to cope with an unexpected data loss event. In recent years, more organizations are evaluating their business continuity plans to make sure their critical data i
More and more computers, tablets and smartphones are built today with solid-state drives (SSDs) because they’re smaller, quieter, reliable, and faster than traditional storage drives. Unlike hard disk drives, solid-state storage devices have no moving parts, which creates a misleading impression that data is much safer on SSDs, but that’s not really the case. SSDs have a higher vulnerability to some defects that aren’t an issue with traditional hard drives, such as abrupt power loss with no fo
Proven Data Recovery has been operating and steadily growing, and we’ve learned a lot about our clients over the years. Like anyone who is immersed in their work for a decade or more, not much can surprise us anymore. We’ve been called to intervene in thousands of data loss situations to help consultants and IT service providers retrieve data lost from storms, fire, flood, human error, vandalism —you name it, we’ve helped to undo the damage. I guess you can suffice it to say, we really do under
One year ago today, Hurricane Sandy had just begun her destructive path up the east coast of the U.S. In two more days, she will have slammed into the New York’s metro area, making a heart-sinking mess of the IT infrastructure in low-lying portions of New Jersey and New York, particularly southern Manhattan. For businesses and individuals who weren’t prepared for the massive data loss in the storm’s aftermath, the reality of the loss was devastating. Hurricane Sandy should be the go-to lesson
If you have ever been the unfortunate victim of data loss, you probably know what a nerve-wrecking experience it is. Having your important files, photos and documents missing is among the worst things that can happen to you, especially if your routine work is highly dependent on the data. However, if faced with a data loss problem, it is important to keep a cool mind and not take any hasty data recovery measures. So, what exactly should you do when you lose important information stored digitally
Thermal bridging is a common issue in all types of construction, and occurs at inefficient locations in a building’s insulating envelope. This decrease in heat resistance results in a higher heat exchange between interior and exterior — heat loss or infiltration, depending on the climate — and thus a decrease in energy efficiency. A common thermal bridge in residential construction occurs at wall-to-ceiling and wall-to-floor intersections, where wood stud connections are insufficiently insulate
