Malware, in various forms, has been around a long, long time.  Once one variant is defeated another one is created. Criminal elements use malware to steal information, ransom money from victims and generally create chaos. Dealing with malware requires awareness, vigilance and proper protection. Read More.

What is patching? Patching is another term for software updates.  According to Wikipedia, a patch is “a piece of software designed to update a computer program or its supporting data, to fix or improve it.”  From time to time, you may see an icon pop up prompting you to update Java or Adobe, etc. Or you’ll go to shut down your computer but your operating system may have other ideas... Read More.

We not only want to wish you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, we also want to wish you a Happy (Disaster Recovery) Planning season too. Read More.

This post is part of a series of articles about how small business owners can prevent scams and fraud in the workplace. Today, we look at online fraud, specifically, ‘Phishing’. Phishing can be defined as “the activity of defrauding an online account holder of financial information by posing as a legitimate company.” Read More.

As a society, we are becoming more data dependent.  This means, we are also becoming more dependent on our IT infrastructure and less tolerant of application downtime.  Think about the lost revenue per day, hour, or even minute if your business is stopped due to a server or application failure.  Read More.

​Over the course of the year, we are all busy working on our tasks, projects and initiatives. As the Holiday Season approaches, we cannot help but to take a moment to be thankful for the opportunity to be your data protection partner... Read More.

During a recent conversation with a customer, I shared a quick, low cost way to speed up the recovery process. You see, we at RenovoData have their data backups but they are still running all their OSE’s (operating system environments) on bare metal servers. What this tells me is that sometimes people get busy and collapse two different levels of protection. In this case, we are talking data protection versus server recovery. Having the data backed up provides the ability to recover, but the speed of recovery is impeded by the process of recovering the server itself. Read More.

“Our mission is to strengthen the resiliency of small to mid-sized organizations, so the partnership with Zerto is a perfect fit.  This is a great time to add Zerto based solutions to our tool set as more of our customers adopt virtualization.  Now we can help them realize the benefits of near zero data loss at a much more affordable cost than we could in the past.”   -Chuck Cook, President   Read More.

How to create a secure password for business can be a little tricky these days. With Fortune 500 companies like Sony and or health care giants like Anthem Blue Cross being hacked on a regular basis, how can you ensure that your information is locked down tight?  Read More...

Security is not just for banks and big businesses.  It’s for all organizations, big or small.  Over the years, we’ve found a large number of organizations that could have prevented a data loss or data breach event from occurring by taking a few precautions. Read More.