Not backing-up Your Digital Life?

cloud1When was the last time that you did a back-up of your PC? It is a good question and an important one. We have recently conducted a survey to ascertain people’s views on back-up and you can follow this link to it. If you follow this link it will take you to a YouTube video we have also created on the results from this survey. We found that only one third of us carry-out a regular backup. Only one in five us backup all of our content..  There seems to be a consensus that the content we are gathering and creating on our PCs grows at circa 50% per year. That would suggest that backing up content is important. The reasons given for people not backing up are those of complexity and never seeming to have the time.  I believe that, as with a lot in our new digital life, the internet can also be the source of a solution. The ability to backup our important content to an online backup service is now here with us. It offers the ability to access your content from wherever you have access to the internet. You are no longer tied to, nor reliant upon, standalone hardware based backup.  The beauty of this approach is that the content can follow you around, not you having to go and chase it. That is why we here at Symantec have just released Norton Online Back-up, a web based backup service. It’s ambition is to make back-up convenient and simple and to provide the peace of mind that we all want and need when it comes to securing our digital life.

May 27, 2009 | Filed Under Announcements, Backup and restore, Data loss 

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