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With the rising trends in cybercrime as well as the ever-present issues with human error and hardware failure, 2016 is not the year for people to decide whether they should be creating a backup of their data but, if they have not already settled on an option, it is the year that users make a […]

Hyper-V is the Microsoft’s hardware virtualization system, the most direct and important competitor of VMware ESXi. Born as a successor to Virtual PC, Hyper-V has become over the years a very complete and efficient virtualization system and, also thanks to its adoption in Microsoft’s Azure platform, one of the essential components for a complete cloud […]

A recent article from the BBC noted that a survey conducted by a famous name in the Anti-Virus business has shown that 2015 was a bad year for the security of personal and business data. The reason for last year being such a good year for scammers was that more than 500 million digital identities […]

Just like the battle between companies and fraudsters, the clash of honest computer users and those looking to take advantage of these users by holding their data to ransom, corrupting their data or stealing their information for their own nefarious gains is a fight that will likely go on forever. Both sides have plenty of […]

Ever since the invention of the personal computer the human race has moved further and further away from storing data in physical form and towards having everything available at the touch of a button via these computing devices, such as laptops and, more recently, mobile devices. This move towards online storage of information has both […]

Since their inception, creation and roll out in the 1980’s relational database management systems, or RDBMS for short, quickly became the global standard for database types used across the majority of industries. This is still the case today with financial, online gaming and a variety of other business types using a number of relational database […]

    What would you do if you lost everything? This is the tagline for the sixth annual World backup day that happens on March 31st which is growing larger year on year as many people are unaware of the dangers of not backing up their data in the case of a sudden loss of […]

One of the biggest IT Security challenges to and risks for companies in recent years has been the proliferation of the Ransomware viruses, the most infamous of which are well known by the names Cryptolocker, Cryptowall, CTB-Locker, TeslaCrypt, Wannacry, and there are many more too. The rapid spread of this type of virus is due […]