Backup Generators Indispensible Business Commodity During Natural Disasters

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 21, 2011

In the wake of a natural disaster that is being hailed as the worst crisis for Japan since World War II, millions of Japanese citizens are learning just how much havoc an unexpected event can wreak. Having backup generators in place could have averted some of the devastating after effects that resulted from the earthquake and tsunami. In particular, it could have insulated them from the widespread power outages. Aaron Equipment Company, a leading provider of new, used and reconditioned process equipment, including backup generators, is encouraging American businesses to learn from the situation in Japan by assessing their own disaster recovery plans.

Earlier this week, the Bloomberg news service reported that millions in Japan were still without power five full days after a crippling earthquake and tsunami rocked the city of Tokyo. The official count of electrical outages was about 1.3 million households. To make matters worse, in an effort to save electricity, on March 14, Tokyo Electric announced that it would be starting scheduled power outages in parts of the greater Tokyo area. Needless to say, the economy in the Japanese nation is at a virtual standstill.

That same day, the Air Self-Defense Forces prepared for the worst at a nuclear power plant in the north of Tokyo by transporting generators there. As the world watches, they can only hope that these after-the-fact initiatives dont prove to be a case of too little too late. They can also take heed from Japans plight and arm themselves with a backup generator now before such a calamity strikes closer to home.

Disasters like the tsunami in Japan and Hurricane Katrina are a wakeup call to all business owners. They can lead to extended periods of time without utility power that knock out a company for days, even weeks, explains Aaron Equipment Company spokesperson Patrick Paden. But even everyday events like thunderstorms, unusual weather, brownouts and blackouts can wreak devastation on a businesss productivity. Having an emergency / stand-by / back-up power generator set installed can keep a company running business as usual under even the most unusual of circumstances. A generator set can run an entire facility as well as its servers, computers, phone systems, lights, air conditioners, machinery and all its electrical devices.

Business owners who are taking a second look at their own disaster readiness in light of the situation in Japan can see all of the used generators, new generators and automatic transfer switches Aaron Equipment Company has to offer online at http://www.aaronequipment.com/UsedEquipment/Generators.html. For more information on the best generator to meet a particular business need, contact Patrick Paden at (630) 350-2200.

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24 Hour Data Recovery Experts Say, Protect Your Data During Tornado Season

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) June 22, 2011

Historically, tornado season spans from April to June and tornadoes commonly hit an area in the U.S. ranging from northwest Texas across Oklahoma and Kansas, known as tornado alley. But, as this year has shown us, tornadoes can hit anywhere and at any time of year.

24 Hour Data Encourages Regular Back Ups to Protect Data During a Disaster

How can you protect data in the event of a tornado or any natural disaster? Perform regular back-ups of data and follow these tips:

1. Maintain three forms of data backup, including at least one remote back-up that can be accessed over the web.

2. Rely on storage in the cloud so you can access data in the event of an emergency anywhere in the world, from any computer with Internet access;

3. Unplug computers during a storm to prevent damage caused by power surges;

4. Keep the phone number for 24 Hour Data handy for emergency data recovery services, in case a computer can’t access files or the Internet to start the data recovery process online.

Tornadoes Harm Hard Drives, Causing a Need for Data Recovery

A hard drive that’s been knocked around and thrown by tornado winds can suffer shock damage. Floods and heavy rains from thunderstorms associated with twisters can also damage hard drives, as can power surges, often caused when power lines experience tornado force winds or direct contact with a twister. In all these cases, it’s possible that data recovery specialists can recover data through complex physical and logical data recovery.

For businesses ravaged by a tornado, recovering lost data can make the difference between staying in business or closing shop forever. For a family that’s lost their home to a tornado, finding family photos on a recovered hard drive provides a link to the past and hope for the future.

Our data recovery specialists aren’t policemen, firefighters or emergency responders who save lives. We owe those people a huge debt of gratitude for their actions during events like the Joplin tornado, says 24 Hour Data President Sean Wade. But our emergency data recovery services give us a small opportunity to be heroes to business owners and individuals who rely on crucial data stored on computers that may now be damaged to the point where do-it-yourself data recovery just won’t work.

24 Hour Data offers 24/7 Emergency Recovery Service and Fair Pricing

A computer, hard drive or server can be a lifeline to recovering some of what people have lost in a natural disaster, Wade adds. We understand this, and that’s why we pride ourselves on offering round-the-clock 24 Hour Data recovery service, and honest price quotes.

In most cases, 24 Hour Data offers a free diagnostic for data recovery within 24 hours of receiving storage media, including hard drive recovery, RAID recovery, SSD recovery, and Mac recovery. Most data recovery services can be accomplished within 48 hours. And if 24 Hour Data can’t recover lost data, there’s no charge for the service.

24 Hour Data has data recovery specialists standing by to offer data recovery services across the U.S. Call us today at 866-598-DATA to find out more.

About 24 Hour Data – 24 Hour Data, based in Dallas, Texas, is an industry leading data recovery firm specializing in logical and physical recovery of hard disk drives, RAID servers, photos, Macs, flash drives, solid state drives, virtual arrays and more. We understand the human side of the data recovery business, and offer round-the-clock service and a fast and honest estimate, along with data recovery within 48 hours, in most cases. Go to http://www.24hourdata.com to find out more.

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Dolly Drive Adds Throttle to Let Users Control Bandwidth and Upload Speeds During Time Machine Backups to the Cloud

Miami, Florida (PRWEB) October 27, 2011

Dolly Drive, online backup for Apples Time Machine, has released its version 1.5 upgrade, adding a bandwidth throttle that gives users greater control of internet speed used during Time Machine backups to the cloud. The throttle increases and decreases easily by sliding horizontally, as simply as increasing the volume on your speakers. It is part of a revamp of the user interface panel which gives users easier access to Dolly Drives breadth of functions including backup, disaster recovery and soon to be available online storage.

The upgrade to Dolly Drives Lion and Snow Leopard-ready backup application means users can reduce the amount of bandwidth used during Time Machine backups to the cloud, simultaneously giving Mac users greater upload and download speeds for other bandwidth-intensive activities like streaming, Skyping, and browsing.

This upgrade reflects the commitment of our team to listen directly to Dolly Drive users throughout development said Anthony Palermo, CEO of Dolly Drive. The new bandwidth throttle solves a challenge that our users were sharing with us as a desired improvement.

When Time Machine performs a back-up using an internet connection it tries to use all your available internet speed without considering that you may need this speed for other purposes.The throttle lets you continue backing up without suffering a loss of performance in other bandwidth-heavy functions.

The increased control will be particularly helpful for Dolly Drives Business users, since even with multiple Dolly Drive backups running on the same network, there is no longer competition for bandwidth.

Dolly Drive is a subscription software and online storage service designed for Apples Time Machine. In addition to providing Mac users offsite cloud storage directly through the Time Machine application, the application allows users to create a bootable clone of their Mac on an external hard drive for local disaster recovery. It works with Apples Lion and Snow Leopard platforms. http://www.dollydrive.com

About Cirrus Thinking

Cirrus Thinking was founded in 2009 by a pair of passionate Apple fans with the goal of delivering the critical advantages of cloud services to Apple users at the consumer, small businesses and enterprise levels. The first product Dolly Drive, an online backup solution for Apples Time Machine launched in 2011 and was named MacLife Magazines Best Software and Best of Show at MacWorld 2011. Cirrus Thinking has offices in New York and Miami, with data centers located in the United States and Europe.

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London, UK (PRWEB UK) 30 November 2012 It is the busiest time of year for most online retailers but a surge in visitor numbers can leave IT systems struggling to keep up. Many businesses (and their customers) will be noticing their website is sluggish leaving users frustrated and retailers less likely to make a sale. Cloud services provider, Databarracks, is offering online retailers free consultancy and analysis of systems to see how they could use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to effectively handle seasonal peaks in website traffic. Seasonal-based shopping can account for a large proportion of annual sales, so its essential your infrastructure can deliver when it’s busy, says James Watts, Head of Marketing at Databarracks. Online retailers often suffer from poor performance at Christmas as their IT infrastructure cant cope with the extra demand. You could choose to buy more servers to meet the additional requirement but they are likely to rest dormant for the rest of the year. Cloud computing solves this problem; AWS uses features like Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to give you seemingly unlimited performance and resources. You always have the power to keep up during the peaks but you arent left with lots of spare capacity when sales and site visitors are lower the rest of the year, says Watts. As the Christmas count down accelerates, retailers may be starting to experience performance issues but it is too late to make any major changes without risking lost sales. Hence, the offer is timed to take place when Christmas is over and the New Year sales have finished. Businesses will be able to reflect on the period and look at ways to improve for next year, says Watts. Our consultants will be on hand to advise retailers on how they could use AWS to keep costs down and performance up in preparation for the next seasonal spike. To take advantage of Databarracks free consultancy offer, simply call 0800 033 66 33 before December 31st to book your assessment session and report. Sessions are timed to take place from 14th January to 28th of February 2013, once the Christmas rush is over and to allow a proper assessment of how websites performed over the busy period. About Databarracks Databarracks provides secure cloud infrastructure, backup and disaster recovery services from UK based, ex-military data centres. Contact: Leonie Guguen, Communications Manager, Databarracks Tel: 0800 033 6633 E: leonie.guguen(at)databarracks(dot)com Firm Offers to Help Online Retailers Keep Their Sparkle during Christmas Rush

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 30 November 2012

It is the busiest time of year for most online retailers but a surge in visitor numbers can leave IT systems struggling to keep up. Many businesses (and their customers) will be noticing their website is sluggish leaving users frustrated and retailers less likely to make a sale.

Cloud services provider, Databarracks, is offering online retailers free consultancy and analysis of systems to see how they could use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to effectively handle seasonal peaks in website traffic.

Seasonal-based shopping can account for a large proportion of annual sales, so its essential your infrastructure can deliver when it’s busy, says James Watts, Head of Marketing at Databarracks. Online retailers often suffer from poor performance at Christmas as their IT infrastructure cant cope with the extra demand. You could choose to buy more servers to meet the additional requirement but they are likely to rest dormant for the rest of the year.

Cloud computing solves this problem; AWS uses features like Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to give you seemingly unlimited performance and resources. You always have the power to keep up during the peaks but you arent left with lots of spare capacity when sales and site visitors are lower the rest of the year, says Watts.

As the Christmas count down accelerates, retailers may be starting to experience performance issues but it is too late to make any major changes without risking lost sales. Hence, the offer is timed to take place when Christmas is over and the New Year sales have finished.

Businesses will be able to reflect on the period and look at ways to improve for next year, says Watts. Our consultants will be on hand to advise retailers on how they could use AWS to keep costs down and performance up in preparation for the next seasonal spike.

To take advantage of Databarracks free consultancy offer, simply call 0800 033 66 33 before December 31st to book your assessment session and report. Sessions are timed to take place from 14th January to 28th of February 2013, once the Christmas rush is over and to allow a proper assessment of how websites performed over the busy period.

About Databarracks

Databarracks provides secure cloud infrastructure, backup and disaster recovery services from UK based, ex-military data centres.

Contact:

Leonie Guguen, Communications Manager, Databarracks

Tel: 0800 033 6633

E: leonie.guguen(at)databarracks(dot)com

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Dolly Drive Offers New Customers a Free Account of its Cloud Storage for Mac to Give as Gifts During Holidays in Effort to Promote Data Backup

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 21, 2012

Cirrus Thinking, makers of the award-winning Dolly Drive cloud backup and storage for Mac, have launched a backup awareness campaign over the holidays in an effort to get people who backup their computer to encourage friends and family who dont to get started. Individuals who purchase a Dolly Drive account will receive a free account to send to a friend or family member who isnt doing cloud backup. Invididuals can also send traditional gift accounts to Mac users.

Computer backup is so easy but if you dont start it, you are at risk of losing everything on your hard drive in an instant. said Anthony Palermo, Creator of Dolly Drive. By giving people who want to use Dolly Drive cloud storage & backup a chance to regift their purchase to a friend or family member, we figure we not only give Mac fans a chance to use Dolly, but more importantly, give them the chance to be a hero when their new-to-backup friend finally needs it.

Cloud storage is also becoming more important as more people get used to using multiple computers in their lives as well as smartphone devices. A recent Neilsen report revealed that over 55% of the mobile phone market is now penetrated by smartphones, meaning more and more picture and videos are being uploaded & synced, and more employees are expecting to have access to their work files every minute they are away from their office.

Added Palermo, Computer backup isnt just for techies. Its for everyone who uses a computer and keeps accumulating more and more digital life. At a time, we had one computer that held all of our stuff. Now people have 2 or 3 computers and multiple mobile devices. You not only need to be able to access it regardless of which computer you have, but you need to ensure that those files are safely being archived throughout your day.

In addition to the buy one, get one promotion, Dolly now offers gift cards.

Dolly Drive is an all-in-one sync, store and backup service designed for Mac. In addition to providing Mac users offsite cloud storage and mobile access to expand hard drive space, the application allows users to create a bootable clone of their Mac on an external hard drive for local disaster recovery. See more at http://www.dollydrive.com

About Cirrus Thinking

Cirrus Thinking was founded in 2009 by a pair of passionate Apple fans with the goal of delivering the critical advantages of cloud services to Apple users at the consumer, small businesses and enterprise levels. The first product Dolly Drive, an online backup solution for Apples Time Machine launched in 2011 and was named MacLife Magazines Best Software and Best of Show at MacWorld 2011. Cirrus Thinking has offices in New York and Miami, with data centers located in the United States and Europe.

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