Earlier this month Apple officially released the iPhone 7 and if you are an iPhone fan, chances are you are itching to get your hands on one, but switching mobile devices can sometimes be tricky. Needless to say, transferring your contacts, photos, videos, and apps to your new device is very important, and if […]
For small businesses, as we already know, data loss can be crippling. Small business owners need to protect themselves and their company’s data from natural disasters, viruses, hard drive failure or even employee theft. If you’re a small business owner and this concerns you, it should! A lot of small businesses may not have […]
Hurricanes, tornadoes, solar flares, oh my. What do all these have in common? Each year they’re the cause of data loss that can cripple any business and destroy personal property. But many of us are unaware of the, ahem, disastrous effects that forces of nature can have not just on our data, but our lives. […]
TurboTax has dropped their cloud backup option for desktop users today. After this week’s deadline, TurboTax files will no longer be restorable from the cloud if a desktop user’s computer crashes. Cloud backup is the best way to protect your files from all data disasters, as you can restore them at anytime once your device […]
Network-attached storage is one of the quickest and easiest ways to share files across a group of multiple devices. But like all gadgets, NAS devices are merely mortal, and if they crash, so will all your data. That’s why IDrive released NAS backup applications for Synology, Netgear, and QNAP, keeping your NAS files secure and […]
IDrive ran a study looking at 50,000 users who joined us recently in the month of Jan. 2015. Specifically, we took note of which email providers they use, in order to figure out which platform’s users were more likely to go the extra mile to secure their data with a backup solution, and why. Here’s […]
It’s no secret that it was a rough couple of months for Jennifer Lawrence and countless other celebs whose selfies were leaked after their cloud accounts were compromised. Since we’re based in LA, we’re familiar with the pressures of life in the spotlight, so we decided to help celebs like Ms. Lawrence by sharing […]
Our new backup service, IDrive DataCenter Edition, is the first of its kind for IDrive, providing enterprise level cloud backup for Linux-based Data Centers and hosting companies and eliminates the need for command line scripting, which is generally a difficult and time-consuming task utilized by other Linux backup services. In a marketplace dominated by command-line […]
According to a new report released by the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT), several competing Online Backup companies have been found lacking in the area of security. The report found security issues and vulnerabilities with several popular Online Backup and Online Sync providers. Some areas where much work was needed include transport security and […]
