No backup is created equal and your business needs to know the difference. Here are four crucial questions to find out if your backup is in shipshape.

What ship is your backup? Whether you’re a row boat, sailboat or speed boat, backup plays a critical part in your business. Although, backup shouldn’t sink your business, and it shouldn’t just keep your company afloat. Leverage a hybrid-cloud solution to power through the sea of results.
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According to the Enterprise Strategy Group, backup and recovery capabilities rank among the top IT priorities for organizations of all sizes. The result is increased demand for business continuity (BC) solutions that help businesses keep operations running in the face of disaster. Unplanned downtime, data loss and security breach are serious considerations for the majority of businesses.
Many businesses don’t give much thought to their backup solutions until it’s too late. In the digital age, it’s more and more difficult for businesses to operate without access to their data, and any loss of information could have catastrophic effects on personnel productivity and the bottom line.
In response, companies are turning to much more robust systems with quicker recovery times when access is lost. Understand how well your business is protected by clicking "Read More" and asking these five key questions:

If you've had a server inexplicably go down, you know that a failed server can have catastrophic effects on your business. But let’s assume you already have a sound Disaster Recovery Plan in place, and you know what you’re going to do if that server fails. What should you consider when it comes to choosing the right server for your business in the first place?
The biggest decision is whether to have a cloud-based or in-house server infrastructure. While it may sound like a black-or-white selection, there are many things to consider. The first factor is how important uptime is to your business. Cloud solutions can be more expensive than an in-house server, but the benefits of being in the cloud can far outweigh the costs for some businesses. For example, an online business that is reliant on web-based transactions will consider uptime an extremely important factor; therefore, they will likely be willing to pay more for a cloud-based solution that can guarantee a certain level of uptime. Other businesses not as dependent on uptime may be more suited to an in-house set up.
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The company that sells the most smartphones in the world, Samsung, goes first each year in unveiling its new flagship devices. This year, Samsung preempted its announcement of the new Galaxy S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra by unveiling a new foldable, the Galaxy Z Flip, less than 48 hours before the event for its new Galaxy S phones. If standing out against foldables wasn't tough enough, unveiling its new foldable in a commercial during the Oscars made it even tougher. 
The Galaxy Z Flip will steal most of the headlines at Samsung Unpacked 2020, but that device is all about taking on the reborn Motorola Razr. The new Galaxy S20 has bigger competition in mind -- Apple's iPhone, Google's Pixel and Huawei's high-end phones -- the phones many more people will actually buy in 2020. And to Samsung's credit, the highest-end model of the new Galaxy S20 has done eight things that have raised the bar for flagship phones:
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Source by Cnet | February 12, 2020

Windows 10’s search function has been causing a good deal of issues in recent times, and has triggered more grief this week, going down completely for some users – although a fix has now been rolled out.
According to a report by Windows Latest, a lot of folks running Windows 10 November 2019 Update and May 2019 Update found that queries typed into the search box would return absolutely nothing – just a blank, black box.
This happened on February 5, and has since been fixed, with Microsoft admitting there was a problem, and that it was a gremlin crawling about in the company’s network infrastructure (specifically a ‘third-party networking fiber provider’ ran into trouble).
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Source by TechRadar | February 8, 2020