Spotlight on... Remote Backup Service Protects Your Business In today’s digital world, your business relies on information stored in your computer hard drive or network storage system. From contacts to current projects, it’s all saved somewhere. The question is how safe is it? While it’s unpleasant to think about worst-case scenarios – computer malfunctions, theft, fires and other disasters – they could be a real threat to your business if valuable data is destroyed or lost. An online backup and recovery service could be the solution. UIS Technology Partners provides an online data backup and recovery service, which allows you to store files, contacts, and other key data in a secure, offsite location. Unlike most other backup providers, our data recovery service can even restore your entire operating system, applications, settings and data onto a new computer with different hardware than the original one. If disaster does strike, and you need to restore your data onto new machines, we can make it happen. To protect your data, UIS Technology Partners uses some of the most secure, reliable and high-capacity internet backbones in the industry. Every part of the network has a redundant “stand in” that instantly becomes operational if there is a hardware failure. We also offer a number of sophisticated features. For example, our "send-once" technology recognizes where data is duplicated across a network and sends only one copy to the server, minimizing your costs and increasing efficiency. A “local-restore” feature allows you to keep a copy of the latest data being sent to the offsite data vault on your local network. That way, you can restore your latest data quickly at LAN speeds, even if you are using inexpensive WAN technology such as DSL or cable. UIS Technology Partners’ backup service is fast, flexible and easy. For example, your company doesn’t need to install software on all your machines, just the one server that runs the backup and restore system and sends data to the secure offsite data vault, reducing the impact on your network. Let’s hope disaster never strikes. If it does, your business success depends on being prepared. |  |  Ask the Experts
Q: Why does my computer continue to get slower over time? A: Computers don’t actually get slower over time. When newer software is added to a computer, it places a higher demand on that computer, which effectively causes it to slow down. But if you never add new software or upgrade any of the existing software, your computer would perform as fast as it did when it was new. Here are a few tips to keep your computer performing optimally: 1. Always keep 20 percent of free space available on your hard drive. 2. Uninstall unused programs from your computer. 3. Defragment your hard drive. 4. Make sure you have enough memory installed on your computer; a minimum of 2 GB is recommended for Windows XP, and 4 GB for Windows Vista and Windows 7. 5. Remove programs from starting up that are unused (icons located in the bottom right corner next to the time). 6. Run antivirus and malware software. 7. The last resort is reinstalling the operating system, which removes the previous configuration and resets the computer to the factory defaults. Have an issue you need solved? Submit A Question Here » |
