Single points of failure In any IT setup there are a number of potential “single points of failure”. By a single point of failure I mean if that one thing fails or goes wrong, everything stops working. In this article I’m going to look at several single points of failure and what you can do […]
It’s Not My Fault This Time Either! Two news items caught my eye today – Google breaking privacy laws (BBC article) and BT’s broadband network falling over again (PC Pro article). Google “inadvertently” collected private data (including passwords) from unsecured WiFi connections. At least you know they’ve done it and are going to ditch the […]
It’s Not My Fault! On Sunday night, a fire swept through a Japanese restaurant in Leicester. Stretches of Granby Street and Charles Street had to be blocked off and there was disruption to neighbouring businesses, many of which were unable to open on Monday (full story from Leicester Mercury and BBC). The interesting bit here […]
Top Ten Reasons To Use Cloud Backup Ease of use – the simple set and forget features of the software mean that you simply choose what you want backed up and when. On demand or on a set schedule your data is automatically sent to our two data centres Cost – full data protection for […]
Cleaning up your computer In early December last year, I was contacted by one of my clients. I’ll call him Bob, to protect the innocent. Bob’s anti-virus software was reporting that he had a Trojan on his computer. Sensibly, he had run a full scan of his system, but no viruses or Trojans had shown […]
Which? recommends “Smash up your hard drive to avoid ID theft” Which? magazine as recently advised readers to physically destroy their hard disks with a hammer to prevent you becoming a victim of identity theft (full article). While this is good stress therapy, it’s not a method that we at Network Midlands recommend. We recommend […]
Data recovery – a brief case study Last week we had to recover the data off a NAS disk (a hard drive that connects to a network and is visible by all computers on a network). The disk had started dropping off the network and, eventually, no computer could access any of the files on […]