Google announces Google Public DNS, a new public DNS resolver. Google says that it will provide users of the service with improved security, fast performance, and more valid results. Find out more at the following link.
The holidays have always been a time to get together with friends and family to share great food and trade gifts. Of course, these moments need to be captured for posterity and the most frequent way to do it is with a digital camera. But, for all the conveniences digital cameras possess, the fragility of their memory cards is one drawback that can be extremely inconvenient.
Consider the fate of the 512MB memory card pictured here. After filling the card with shots of family and friends, the owner reloaded the camera with an empty card and continued photographing various events. Only later did he discover that the family dog had located the card and decided to give it a taste. One thing led to another and the memory card ended up in fragments - leaving one happy dog and one angry owner.
The owner sent the broken memory card to a data recovery company he’d found on the Internet. But, once they received it and discovered they couldn’t recover it, they recommended DriveSavers. That turned out to be good advice as every single image on the card was recovered.
This holiday season protect your digital memories by following these simple tips:
- Backup or transfer images from the camera’s Flash memory onto CDs, DVDs or an external hard drive after each use.
- Do not delete images or reformat the memory card while it is still in the camera. Wait until all photos have been transferred and verified.
- Remove the Flash memory or card reader from the camera carefully. Follow instructions to avoid deleting or corrupting photo images.
- Protect your Flash memory card from static buildup or breakage by using a sturdy container when carrying them around.
- Replace your Flash memory card over time. After an average of 1,000 uses, they can begin to wear out..
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Cuda Web Filter Wins award from Windows IT Pro
Published by January 8th, 2008 in Barracuda, Partners and Solutions. 0 Comments
Barracuda Networks, Inc., the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, announced today that the Barracuda Web Filter has been named the “Best of Connections 2007 Awards†winner. Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro judges declared the Barracuda Web Filter the best in the Windows category.The judges reviewed more than 60 IT products and services submissions and chose 18 finalists to be evaluated at the Connections Conference in Las Vegas. Interviews were conducted during the event with winners announced on Nov. 7 on the exhibit floor of the Connections Conference.
“This is the first year of this awards program and were thrilled by the high quality of the entries we received,†said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategic director. â€While we had many worthy products, the winners clearly demonstrated their products’ strategic importance to the market, their competitive advantages and the value they provide to customers.â€
The “Best of Connections 2007†awards recognize companies that offer innovative products in the following categories: Exchange, Mobile, .NET, Office, SharePoint, SQL Server and Windows.
“We are honored to have the Barracuda Web Filter recognized as an innovative Windows product at the Connections show,†said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks. “This distinction highlights our success at addressing the growing need with network administrators for affordable content filtering and powerful anti-spyware protection at the gateway level.â€
About the Barracuda Web Filter
Available in six models, the Barracuda Web Filter combines preventative, reactive and proactive measures to form a complete content filtering and anti-spyware solution for businesses of all sizes. The Barracuda Web Filter is designed to enforce acceptable Internet usage policies by blocking access to objectionable content and unauthorized Internet applications. At the same time, the Barracuda Web Filter’s award-winning feature set enables the Barracuda Web Filter to block spyware downloads, prevent viruses, and stop access to spyware Web sites. Unlike the widely available desktop software solutions, the Barracuda Web Filter is easily installed and does not require the additional time, money or resources necessary for downloading and maintaining software on each individual PC. Hourly Energize Updates are made automatically by Barracuda Central so that the Barracuda Web Filter can block the ever-changing virus and spyware variants, as well as maintain the most up-to-date database of the latest productivity-inhibiting Web sites.
Drive Savers Monthly Tip - Mix It Up In a RAID
Published by October 4th, 2007 in Drive Savers and Partners. 0 Comments 
Over 90 percent of all new information produced in the world is being stored on magnetic media, most of it on hard disk drives.
Critical data is often stored on a RAID system because the configurations are considered to be fault tolerant. RAID systems can be designed to keep working when one drive fails. Disks can be hot swapped while the system keeps running but even this setup of an array of drives is not infallible. It can only offset the failure of a single drive—and the chances of multiple drive failures occur more frequently than most want to imagine.
The conditions leading up to a hard drive failure are complicated and vary depending upon a variety of situations. To minimize simultaneous drive failures and subsequent data loss, it may help to mix up the manufacture dates and batch lots (listed on the drive label) when deploying multiple drives in a RAID array.
It also a good practice to check that all drive firmware is up to date and to have a hot swap spare drive assigned to the arrays for an automatic rebuild of a degraded array.
The bottom line is, all drives will eventually fail. No matter how new your hard drive is, or if your storage system is a RAID, there is always risk of data loss.
Our motto is “The best drive is a backed up drive.”
