First mooted by US photographer Peter Krogh in a book about digital asset management for photographers, the 3-2-1 backup rule has been seminal in guiding organisations in their backup strategy. This ...

Organisations that use cloud IT or cloud-based applications often do so in the belief they can spend less time managing IT and more time running the business. Partly, this is because customers see ...

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. We all know we're supposed to back up our data; ...

Cloud backup services are the OG of online storage. Long before internet bandwidth allowed you to work online, there were services dedicated to providing that all-important third copy in the backup ...

One of our favorite online backup services, iDrive, has added a new feature: unlimited cloud-to-cloud backup from Microsoft 365 Personal accounts. This might feel somewhat familiar: iDrive offered a ...

So I've always tried to follow the 3-2-1 rule for personal backups (3 copies of the data, 2 backups, 1 backup off-site). My NAS crashed a couple of years ago, right around the same time as a house ...

What is cloud computing? We recently asked a number of people in our industry, and got back a range of interesting, and sometimes self-referential, responses. According to our respondents, cloud ...

Backblaze, Inc., a leading specialized cloud storage platform, announced the early access launch of Computer Backup v9.0, introducing one of the most requested computer backup features: a dedicated ...

Microsoft has started a limited public preview of Windows 365 Reserve, a Cloud PC service aimed at giving workers a quick backup option when their main computer is out of commission. The idea is to ...

Key takeaway: In these 10 cloud disasters, only one company came out unscathed, and it’s the one that had a tested third-party backup of its cloud data. I’ve always called for independent backups of ...