Over the past couple of years, environmental preservation has been in the spotlight. Topics ranging from global warming melting the polar ice caps to ways for minimizing carbon footprints have been topics in many media outlets. The ‘green revolution’ has begun. Geochemical software played a role in helping visualize the collected data in order to [...]

Over the past couple of years, environmental preservation has been in the spotlight. Topics ranging from global warming melting the polar ice caps to ways for minimizing carbon footprints have been topics in many media outlets. The ‘green revolution’ has begun. Geochemical software played a role in helping visualize the collected data in order to [...]

A storage device that functions similar to an internal hard drive with the only difference that it can be connected via a USB port and is placed outside the CPU is called an external hard drive. The device is very popular for the simple reason that it makes your data portable and secure from threats. [...]

Those of you in the Information Assurance world know that classified Solid State Drives (SSD) cannot be sanitized by degaussing, but did you know that a recent academic paper was published detailing just how really difficult it is to securely erase a SSD? The work is entitled Reliably Erasing Data From Flash- Based Solid State [...]

Is your data centre bursting at the seams and are you struggling to meet demand? Most freely available advice typically focuses on carrying out worthwhile exercises including virtualisation, storage consolidation and platform refreshing to more efficient hardware. For large firms, these projects can become huge programmes of work, spanning many months or even years and [...]

In the present age of computers, the gadgets have become smaller posing higher risk of theft than earlier. Also it is very easy to copy or manipulate the data, which means that we need to be extra careful in securing our data. In this article, we will discuss handling of computer and data security risks. [...]

For most webmasters a choice of data center is really not an issue, because a large percentage of all web sites are hosted on shared servers. If you are buying shared hosting services for a small websites the things you are probably going to look for would be the storage, bandwidth availability, server-side scripting options, [...]

Data conversions have gotten a bad rap. There are certainly enough horror stories to go around. Like everything else, everyone talks about the bad things that happen but seldom do people share news on something that has gone right – unless asked. In order to tackle it you need to be scared of it. You [...]

If you are in any kind of business, then you are probably using the web quite significantly. Storing your electronic files has probably replaced the storing that you used to do in boxes and filing cabinets. While the electronic age has made this much easier, you should not make the mistake of thinking that, just [...]

As an entrepreneur you never want your business to have any type of downtime. You always want your business to have continuous operations. Today’s corporate world does not allow businesses to have any kind of stoppages. They need to have continuous operations in order to keep pace with its competitors. View full post on Computers-and-Technology [...]