Kiosk Software VS “Restore on Reboot” Programs – What is the Best solution for Your Public Computers? What should you install on kiosks to minimize IT administrator oversight? That is, what’s the best solution for these self-service computer kiosks that will give you, the IT manager, the least number of headaches? The answer to this…
Complete Crash-Proofing Toolkit for Student PCs Are you looking for ways to save money, streamline operations, and do more with less? Do your students constantly have to wait for the school lab computer to respond? Do you find your machines gradually taking longer and longer to start-up? Do the PCs take forever to shutdown? Is…
Turbo Charge Your Backup Most backup options available out there take a few hours to backup a typical four terabyte harddrive. If you do background backups you’ll experience slowdowns in your other computing tasks. If you’d like a full backup you’ll have to leave your computer on overnight. These snail’s pace backup solutions need to…
CryptoLocker Ransomware: Unlocked and Gone! The latest CryptoLocker ransomware has been defeated by RollBack Rx v10.x. There’s a scary new threat floating around in cyberspace. It may already be too late. The computer you’re using right now may already be infected. While you’re working away on an important document, files in the background are becoming…
Sector-Mapping Technology Horizon DataSys’ patented sector-mapping algorithm and incremental sector-redirection used by its software is much quicker for backup and restore operations than traditional backup and disk imaging applications. This technology is exclusively used in RollBack Rx, Drive Vaccine, RollBack Rx Multipoint Server, and RollBack Rx Server to capture and manage these softwares’ snapshots. This…
Real-Time Backup and Recovery. What is it? Real-Time Recovery is a relatively new IT market segment in backup and recovery. Legacy technologies could not provide a near day-zero instant restore within seconds without losing any critical data. Real-Time restore of servers and workstations is vital in order to have a sound disaster recovery strategy which…
The Best Backup and Restore Software for Enterprise Servers As a network manager do you live in constant dread of your servers being unavailable? Are your dreams haunted by the “server is temporarily unavailable” error message? Do you get anxieties about possible service disruptions with all their attendant impact on everyday business activity, lost revenues,…
Ensuring Privacy on Public PCs Public users of PCs too often leave private and sensitive information behind: They may elect to access their personal files from a flash drive and a backup version of their resume or other private document, spreadsheet, e-mail addresses, financial information, et cetera is created; they enter passwords that the auto-fill…
Lockdown Software What is lockdown software? Lockdown software is intended to restrict access to sensitive Windows functions and to prevent public user tampering of PC systems. There are many popular Lockdown Software packages available and they’re often deployed on public access machines to make the IT administrator’s job easier. Reasonably enough, the IT manager would…
Setting Up a Set-Top Box What is a set-top box? Set-top Boxes (or net-top boxes) are simple computers connected to TV display units for browsing and for viewing internet-based channels and subscription movie services. This is becoming an increasingly popular platform for turning a television into a monitor for internet shopping, banking, social networking, or…