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Fun Fact: World Backup Day is March 31st. Chances are, you – or someone you know – has had the unfortunate experience of losing important data. Every day someone’s hard drive bites the dust (somehow, this happens more often to college students right around finals. Weird right?). Save yourself the headache with IDrive Online Backup. […]

Olympic season is here! The world is keeping its eye on London, where the 2012 Olympics open this Friday. There are other people, however, keeping their eyes on you and your digital devices. According to Venafi, a provider of IT security, an estimated 67,000 phones will be lost or stolen with at least a third […]

In the history of mankind, there is one single, great source seen as the combined work of human knowledge.  The most complete records on math, science, literature, and history all contained in one central location. No, not Wikipedia – we’re talking about the legendary Library of Alexandria. Demetrius of Phaleron, a Greek writer/philosopher, and student […]

We’ve been offering those with .edu or @k12.state.us email addresses up to 50% off on a Personal or Family IDrive plan. We’ve now added two new types of email addresses that are eligible for the discount! Students, teachers and staff in New York City with @schools.nyc.gov and in the UK with .ac.uk addresses can now […]

The truth is, there’s nothing you can do to accurately predict whether a disaster, natural or not, will affect your business. It’s a good bet that you’ve already dealt with some form of data loss from hardware failure, employees’ negligence or theft. These three reasons alone account for 83% of enterprise data loss last year! […]

After posing these important five questions to your online backup provider you should have a good picture of how reliable their services are and how safe your data will be. As the old IT saying goes, “A backup is only as good as its restore.” 1. Where is my data being stored? It’s important to […]

We’re making online backup and file sharing easier than ever. With the the latest updates to our Windows, Mac and mobile apps customers can protect and access the files from an unlimited number of computers and mobiles devices with one plan, in one place. See? Easy. Not using IDrive yet? Sign up here. Your first 5GB are free. […]

In this week’s Great Inventions In Backup History we take a look at the backup or “spare” tire. Driving around town in the early part of the 20th century had its drawbacks. You had to crank your engine to get it going, you couldn’t get where you were going very fast and because the first […]

420 million smart-phones will be sold worldwide according to IMS Research (July 2011). With all of today’s cloud-this and cloud-that it seems astonishing that 52 million of those new owners will use their fingers alone to put their contact info into their new device. This is according to a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive […]