As Hurricane Irene Moves North, Online Backup Dolly Drive Reiterates Urgency of Protecting Personal Pictures, Documents & Videos on Home Computers

Miami, FL (PRWEB) August 25, 2011

Cloud services provider Cirrus Thinking, makers of Dolly Drive, online backup for Apples Time Machine, announced that they will extend their offer of 99% off their online backup to Mac users in New York, Boston, Washington D.C. and the rest of the Eastern seaboard for 3 months to help save them from potential data loss and computer disaster caused by Hurricane Irene.

The first year company is urging people to be aware of the absolute importance of backing up personal data online to avoid loss of precious digital content like pictures, videos, & documents due to devastation from power surges, flooding, and other accidents.

Our employees in Miami, Washington D.C and New York are all preparing for Irene’s potential impact on a personal level, said Anthony Palermo, CEO of Dolly Drive. As we’ve been reminding neighbors of the necessity of online, offsite backup to protect their valuable computer content, we see a new understanding in their faces of just how essential it is. Whether people backup with Dolly Drive or any other service, we just want to make sure they take action.

If your computer was ruined, think of all of the personal pictures, documents and videos you would lose forever. Online backup is insurance against that unfortunate situation. We just want to get that message across to people.

The company will extend its offer of 99% off its online storage for 3 months to Mac users in all states affected by the Hurricanes path. The discount amounts to pennies for essential protection.

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 your Mac on an external hard drive for local disaster recovery. It works with Apples Lion and Snow Leopard platforms. Launched in January, Dolly Drive was named MacLife magazines Best of Show and Best Software at MacWorld 2011. 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 Thinkings entire range of Mac and PC products and services provide cutting edge solutions for auto-archiving, online backup, hard drive cloning, online storage, file syncing, and more. Cirrus Thinking has offices in New York and Miami, with data centers located in the United States and Europe.

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Storagepipe Releases New Online Backup Videos

Toronto, Ontario (PRWEB) December 07, 2011

Online backup innovator Storagepipe Solutions has been busy updating their fast-growing YouTube channel over recent months. Storagepipes YouTube channel is one of the leading online educational resources for anyone interested in learning about the data protection or disaster recovery field.

5 of the most notable recent additions have included:

The 3 Main Motives That Threaten Your Data

Before IT admins can protect user data, they should first get an understanding of what theyre protecting it from. This video lists and analyzes some of the leading motives that would motivate an external entity to cause harm to critical or private data.

Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) vs. Progressive (Incremental Forever) Backup Paradigm

The Incremental Forever or Progressive Paradigm backup paradigm is one of the most important technological shifts that have taken place in the data protection industry within recent years. However until recently its been difficult to find a clear, simple explanation of the Progressive Paradigm. This video has been very successful since its release, and contains some important points that everyone should understand before creating their backup plan.

The Essential Pillars of Data Protection

This video introduces viewers to a new way of evaluating the effectiveness of their data protection. The 3 pillars outlined in this webinar form the foundation of any sturdy data protection plan. If just one of these pillars is missing, the whole data protection plan falls to pieces.

Why Versioned Backups Are Important

Despite the abundance of powerful, cost-effective, automated backup services, its still incredibly common for people and organizations to exclusively back up their data by replication to a secondary storage device. With simple replication, only a single historical version of the data is kept. On the other hand, point-in-time backups store multiple historical versions of data which can be rolled back in an emergency. This video examines the benefits and drawbacks of both approaches.

Why Test Backups

Despite the fact that nearly every company backs up regularly, critical data loss is still a common occurrence. Part of this can be attributed to the fact that few organizations regularly test their backups, and this can bring up a wide range of dangerous threats and potential data loss accidents. This video goes into detail about the importance of testing your backup process.

Aside from these educational videos, Storagepipe has also gained a following after the success of their comedy viral video RAM In The Boot Sector.

Storagepipe Solutions has been providing premium online backup services since 2001. Their solutions support a wide range of platforms, applications and operating systems… including Exchange, Oracle, iSeries, Linux, SQL and many others.

In recent years, Storagepipe has gained attention due to their highly successful Storagepipe Fastback DR online backup service. Fastback DR is a powerful online backup service for Windows servers which offers a number of specialized features for Exchange and SQL. Another notable feature would be Fastbacks ability to perform extremely fast bare metal recovery to virtual machines or dissimilar hardware.

For more information, you can contact Storagepipe directly via their web site at http://storagepipe.com.

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Storagepipe Releases New Online Backup Videos

Storagepipe Releases New Online Backup Videos

Toronto, Ontario (PRWEB) December 07, 2011

Online backup innovator Storagepipe Solutions has been busy updating their fast-growing YouTube channel over recent months. Storagepipes YouTube channel is one of the leading online educational resources for anyone interested in learning about the data protection or disaster recovery field.

5 of the most notable recent additions have included:

The 3 Main Motives That Threaten Your Data

Before IT admins can protect user data, they should first get an understanding of what theyre protecting it from. This video lists and analyzes some of the leading motives that would motivate an external entity to cause harm to critical or private data.

Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) vs. Progressive (Incremental Forever) Backup Paradigm

The Incremental Forever or Progressive Paradigm backup paradigm is one of the most important technological shifts that have taken place in the data protection industry within recent years. However until recently its been difficult to find a clear, simple explanation of the Progressive Paradigm. This video has been very successful since its release, and contains some important points that everyone should understand before creating their backup plan.

The Essential Pillars of Data Protection

This video introduces viewers to a new way of evaluating the effectiveness of their data protection. The 3 pillars outlined in this webinar form the foundation of any sturdy data protection plan. If just one of these pillars is missing, the whole data protection plan falls to pieces.

Why Versioned Backups Are Important

Despite the abundance of powerful, cost-effective, automated backup services, its still incredibly common for people and organizations to exclusively back up their data by replication to a secondary storage device. With simple replication, only a single historical version of the data is kept. On the other hand, point-in-time backups store multiple historical versions of data which can be rolled back in an emergency. This video examines the benefits and drawbacks of both approaches.

Why Test Backups

Despite the fact that nearly every company backs up regularly, critical data loss is still a common occurrence. Part of this can be attributed to the fact that few organizations regularly test their backups, and this can bring up a wide range of dangerous threats and potential data loss accidents. This video goes into detail about the importance of testing your backup process.

Aside from these educational videos, Storagepipe has also gained a following after the success of their comedy viral video RAM In The Boot Sector.

Storagepipe Solutions has been providing premium online backup services since 2001. Their solutions support a wide range of platforms, applications and operating systems… including Exchange, Oracle, iSeries, Linux, SQL and many others.

In recent years, Storagepipe has gained attention due to their highly successful Storagepipe Fastback DR online backup service. Fastback DR is a powerful online backup service for Windows servers which offers a number of specialized features for Exchange and SQL. Another notable feature would be Fastbacks ability to perform extremely fast bare metal recovery to virtual machines or dissimilar hardware.

For more information, you can contact Storagepipe directly via their web site at http://storagepipe.com.

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Storagepipe Releases New Online Backup Videos