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The Case for Cloud Backup, as Made by xkcd

by Jay Garmon on Apr 24, 2013 in Security in the Cloud
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As usual, xkcd says more about PC security in one panel than most proficient writers could say in an entire blog post. (There’s a reason we cribbed some of xkcd’s best stuff for our primer on social engineering attacks in the cloud.) At the risk of being superfluous, however, I’d like to expound on this [...]

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The Two (Bad) Reasons Why Users Don’t Back Up Their SaaS Data

by Jay Garmon on Feb 11, 2013 in Backups
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So here’s a strange behavioral paradox: Almost everyone understands the need to backup the data on their computers, but almost no one seems to think they should backup their data in the cloud. There are two very common reasons why backup best practices aren’t observed with SaaS applications — and both of them are dangerously [...]

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Why Those Who Most Need Salesforce Backup Do It The Least

by Jay Garmon on Jan 28, 2013 in Backups
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The more data you have in Salesforce, the more you need a Salesforce backup. The more data you have in Salesforce, the longer it takes to export your Salesforce information, and the more likely it is that a Salesforce administrator will mishandle a manual Salesforce backup. In other words, the companies with the most to [...]

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Gmail Outlook Sync is Dead, But Google Apps Outlook Sync is Forever

by Jay Garmon on Dec 20, 2012 in Backups
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It breaks down like this: If you’re a Microsoft Outlook addict who also uses Gmail, the free ride is over. Google is shutting down the free version of Google Sync, which is to say if you’re using Microsoft Outlook with the free versions of Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Contacts, Google will no longer support [...]

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