Another Case for Offsite Backups

If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that I’ve written quite a few posts about the wonders of cloud backups and why you should be doing them to protect your precious data and memories. This doesn’t just apply to personal computer use – businesses should be taking advantage of offsite backups as well. [...]

New Pricing for Mozy

A while back I did a few posts covering my favorite cloud backup solutions, and one of my favorites was Mozy. That very well may change now that Mozy has announced they are changing their pricing structure. They claim that “the backup market has changed” since 2006 due to people taking more photos [...]

Data Domains & Security

After working with data day-in and day-out for a while, it doesn’t seem unreasonable that thinking about the domain and appropriate datatype for storing a set of data would become second-nature. I know it’s that way for me. Sadly, I can’t say the same for one of the banks I do business with, [...]

“Password” is a Dirty Word

Take a moment to think about the really important passwords you use – maybe for your computer at work, email, financial information, or even the ‘sa’ account on SQL Server.  How many characters long are they?  Are they really all that difficult?  Are they:

Dictionary words?
Words with a few numbers or symbols substituted in place for [...]

Review: Picasa Web Albums

This is the fourth post in my series on cloud backup solutions.  Previous posts were:

Disaster Recovery Strategies for the Home
A review of MozyHome Remote Backup
A review of Jungle Disk

Today’s topic is Google’s Picasa Web Albums, henceforth known as PWA.  Unlike the other solutions I’ve covered, PWA is not explicitly intended to be a backup solution. [...]