Tag Archives: backup

15/11/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Syncplicity moves to Document Lifecycle and Workflow

By Ben Kepes

I use a bunch of document and file synchronization, backup and collaboration tools. From SugarSync to Box.net, from Dropbox to Syncplicity I’ve pretty much used, and currently use, them all. One of the things that interests me from a business strategy perspective, is how companies that primarily sit in the

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11/11/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

A Checklist for Customer Cloud Security

By Ben Kepes

I often hear how Cloud is insecure from people who claim that unauthorized access is a real and significant risk for users of Cloud Computing. It always kind of frustrates me as, in my (admittedly somewhat biased) view, Cloud is as secure, if not more so, than traditional IT. In

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15/07/2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

On Disaster Recovery for SMBs

By Ben Kepes

This has been a big year for disasters in my neck of the woods. From floods and fires in Australia to ongoing Earthquakes in Canterbury – business have had their continuity approaches tested and retested to the limit. One of the most important continuity aspects is disaster recovery. Acronis, a

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03/03/2011 Posted in Business 5 Comments

SMBs and Disaster Recovery

By Ben Kepes

Given that much of my focus around Cloud Computing is the fact that Cloud enables smaller businesses to achieve a level of service formerly only available to the largest enterprises, it always piques my interest when something SMB related crosses my desk. Case in point: a recent industry survey conducted

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24/01/2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

SMBs and Disaster Planning

By Ben Kepes

The other day ReadWriteWeb posted about a recent Symantec survey that showed some unsurprising, but still pretty scary statistics for small businesses. The survey found that 57% of SMBs have no disaster recovery plan and even 47% of midsize companies (those with between 100 and 1000 employees) similarly leave themselves

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21/12/2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Backup My Info–Differentiating with Service

By Ben Kepes

A recurring theme in briefings with vendors is a search for a point of differentiation – there are many application types where there are a huge number of vendors all battling for market share – in situations like this everyone is trying to find a nugget of difference to crate

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27/07/2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Geminare Launches Cloud Storage Assurance 2.0

By Ben Kepes

Geminare Incorporated, a Canadian vendor providing Recovery as a Service solutions to the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector today announced the launch of the Cloud Storage Assurance 2.0 (CSA 2.0) platform. CSA is a cloud storage and archiving engine that provides an auditable backup and archiving solution that can

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16/08/2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 3 Comments

The trend towards zero is the trend towards risk

By Ben Kepes

Chris Brogan posted the sorry tail of the chap who came back from lunch only to find all his Google services inaccessible – it seems his provider had disabled his account and he was left locked out – no access to mail, docs, images nothing. Turns out it was disabled

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24/04/2008 Posted in Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS 1 Comment

Dreaming of a mesh world

By Ben Kepes

The blogosphere is abuzz with discussion about Microsoft’s LiveMesh announcement yesterday. Essentially, and initially, LiveMesh is a platform that allows synchronization (currently PC only) between machines and the clouds by collecting various feeds into one locale. Given the timing of this announcement, it was fortuitous that I was scheduled to

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20/04/2008 Posted in Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Uptime/Downtime/Badline

By Ben Kepes

The HP Upline system launched last week was yet another in the plethora of online (SaaS) backup solutions – I blogged about some others a few days ago. Only a week into the service however, Upline was down, with users receiving the following email; Dear HP Upline Service subscriber, On

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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