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File Sync and Share and the Data Hierarchy of Needs

June 3, 2013

Business

Abraham Maslow, backup, Computer data storage, Jesse Lipson, Maslow, Maslows Hierarchy of Needs, microsoft office, sharefile

I recently took the opportunity to sit down with Jesse Lipson, previously head of ShareFile and, since its acquisition, GM of Data Sharing at Citrix. Lipson wanted to talk to me about the ShareFile solution but we also spent…

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Telefonica Rolls Out a Storage Cloud-Hopefully it’s not Vapor

March 26, 2013

Business

backup, cloud computing, IOS, Mac, Network-attached storage, Personal computer, Server Message Block, Telefónica

A common theme in here is my prognosticating doom for traditional enterprises. If I look at which traditional sectors look the most ripe for disruption, it’s the compliance-heavy ones, often with a legacy of state ownership or control. Banks,…

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Please Don’t Market By Eviscerating Your Competitors–It’s Unseemly

March 8, 2013

Business

Aaron Levie, backup, Business, dropbox, FileLocker, IOS, Remote backup service, security

Last November I covered the launch of Filelocker – a company looking to build a cloud backup and collaboration service that meets the needs of enterprise IT. In their launch blurb they came out with guns blaing, with a…

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Syncplicity moves to Document Lifecycle and Workflow

November 15, 2011

Business

backup, box.net, dropbox, google docs, sugarsync, syncplicity

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…

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A Checklist for Customer Cloud Security

November 11, 2011

Business

backup, Business, cloud, cloud computing, Password, security

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…

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On Disaster Recovery for SMBs

July 15, 2011

Business

Acronis, australia, backup, Business, cloud computing, Disaster recovery, Emergency management

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…

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SMBs and Disaster Recovery

March 3, 2011

Business

backup, Business continuity, cloud computing, Disaster recovery, Downtime

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…

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SMBs and Disaster Planning

January 24, 2011

Business

backup, Disaster recovery, Emergency management, mozy, Symantec

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…

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Backup My Info–Differentiating with Service

December 21, 2010

Business

backup, backupmyinfo, bumi, Carbonite, mozy, Storage

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…

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Geminare Launches Cloud Storage Assurance 2.0

July 27, 2010

Business

backup, geminare

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…

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