A massive ransomware attack using a vulnerability released as part of a dump of NSA data has disrupted services in the UK’s National Health Service and many other government and private organizations across Europe. Because of an incredible stroke of luck by a British researcher, the main wave of...

If you ask a system administrator what their worst nightmare is, you’ll get a variety of answers, but high on the list will be the moment they realise the “rm” command they just ran is deleting the wrong data. That’s essentially what happened to an unfortunate engineer at...

We've got our brand new NetApp SAN in place and have been putting it through it's paces. Overall, it will allow us to offer high speed (15k RPM SAS drives + 1TB of solid state cache) and high availability (2N head-end redundancy + N+2 drive redundancy) storage to our dedicated and colocation...

OK, I figured I'd just come out and say it since I've seen it too much in this industry, important data being lost and there being no backups. I will be using this post to outline the backup services we do provide, as well as extra measures you can take. In short, a web server is similar to your...

We have been working on our new backup systems for the past several months and we are finally nearing the point of releasing them to the general public. Final preparations are being made and the last of the existing backup customers are being moved to the new system as I type this. This service...