Early in the morning on Friday, May 23, 2008 power was lost at the HostDime data center that houses Wright PC Consulting, LLC’s leased server. While, that is not that big of a deal, there are both UPS and a Generator for such occasions, what followed is. Here is what happened and what is being done to prevent such future failures.

Losing my server had me reviewing my need for a server all together. However, after a couple of weeks the final result is one less computer running and using energy and I have my data where I need it as before.

In my post a few months ago I discussed the online backup solution that I recommend to my clients, Mozy. EMC, Mozy’s parent company has recently introduced their enterprise level solution, Mozy Enterprise for those organizations with enterprise level needs. While I’ve not tried it nor do any of my clients use it, the features [...]

Recently we explored ways to secure your data on your laptop computer using TrueCrypt. However, data encryption is not just for your portable devices. In fact, as data theft and loss increases both by public and government organizations as well as at home, so too should the ways that you protect your data assets no [...]

Often when most think of protecting their data using either an on site or off-site solution, they typically just consider their desktop and if they have one, a home/business server. However, one of the most vulnerable data storage and processing devices we own, laptops are all too frequently overlooked. Just think about it… we lug [...]