As some of you may be aware, I’m currently involved in building a cloud-based DR environment for a couple of core business systems. We opted to use Amazon EC2 for this, and I thought I’d share a few observations gleaned along the way. Over the next few weeks I’m going to be taking a look [...]
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“Cloud Hosting” is possibly one of the most used, but yet also most misunderstood terms in current use across the Internet. Cloud means many things to many people, yet has the ability to generate images of limitless potential & strictly imposed limitations – all at the same time. Among those who have not really used [...]
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As you may have been reading in previous posts, we’ve been trying to get some data recovered from a failed laptop harddisk. If the marketing material put out by leading data recovery companies is taken at face value, you end up with the belief that nearly anything can be recovered from… be it a [...]
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Why is it that computer equipment, and especially any form of computer equipment that stores data, always only ever fails at an inopportune moment? Laptops for work never break the day before you go off on holiday leaving plenty of time for them to be fixed while you don’t need them; digital cameras never fail [...]
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