Cloud drives comparison – Google drive, Dropbox, Skydrive, iCloud, Mega, Bitcasa
What virtual drive to choose?
Cloud computing, the processing of files in the cloud, is - in simple words - Virtual Disk space where you keep your files like on your computer. The advantage of this technology is simple: your photos, movies and favorite music is available for you regardless of which computer you're currently using.
Clonezilla – free disk imaging and cloning software
I'm sure you already heard about the popular commercial package Norton Ghost®. The issue with these kind of applications is that it takes a lot of time to multi-clone systems to many workstations. You've probably also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, called Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition®.
Today I would like to present you an open source clone system solution called Clonezilla which supports unicasting and multicasting.
Prevent data loss – back up your files
Statistics says that from the all people who use internet, in the age of 17-76, just 9,5% of them are doing data backups regularly, 22,4 % are doing backups "from time to time" and 17% are not doing backups at all. The rest (~13%) says that it's not a problem for them because they don't keep any important data on their computers.
Data recovery – GetDataBack
FAT GetDataBack is one of the best programs for recovering of lost or damaged data from hard drives working in FAT12/16/32/MTF system. It helps even if partition tables, directories / files or starting area were damaged. The application is useful in emergencies, such as inadvertent drive formatting, accidental deletion of files, a malicious virus attack, the program fdisk or application errors. The program can recover data even if drive is not visible by the operating system, advanced algorithms allow you to collect damaged directories, subdirectories, and files with long names.
Acronis Backup and Security 2011 – backup software you want to have
Acronis Backup and Security 2011 is a backup software that allows you to create data backup and store it on external media or on online backup service. The tool is based on subscription system - offers the possibility of internet backup service so you can store the files on the servers: 5GB or 250GB (Premium version).