Blog Entries tagged 'backups'

The importance of regular maintenance

bj@itnow.net — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0100

In the world of IT, there are a number of maintenance activities that need to be performed regularly in order to keep a network running smoothly. Much like changing the oil or rotating the tires on a car, system updates, backups, hard drive defragmentations and other processes are important for maintaining the overall health of a network or server. Many of these processes require system resources or even system down time, so a certain amount of planning and organization is required in order t [...]

Holy terabytes Batman!

phil@itnow.net — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100

If I’d asked anyone what a thousand gigabytes is called 10 years ago, they’d look at my like I was crazy. No one could even fathom that much storage.

A few months ago, Seagate announced the worlds largest desktop hard drive, 1.5 TB. That TB means terabytes, otherwise known as 1,500 gigabytes, 1,500,000 megabytes, 1,500,000,000 kilobytes, you get the idea. To pu [...]

When Should I Replace My Computer

craig@itnow.net — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0100

As computers progress and get cheaper, it is often easier and cheaper to replace a computer than it is to fix it. Some of our clients aren’t used to this approach. Many have been using computers since they cost $5,000 and are accustomed to maximizing the investment by getting as much use as possible out of the computer. Here are some of the reasons I give when I tell clients their money would be better spent replacing a problematic PC older than 3 years:

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