Monday, July 6, 2009

Seattle Data Center Affects Bing and Shuts Down Websites

InformationWeek reports that a data center in Seattle caught fire that shut down parts of Bing search engine and took down websites for as long as 36 hours.

This sends or should send a strong message to those users who store data in their homes regardless if backup external drives are utilized for data storage. Data should always be stored off-site in case of a disaster that happened in Seattle over the weekend.

PC Virus Doctors have several vendors that store data over the internet, outside of Dallas, in redundant servers to insure data is never lost. The storage is affordable, easy to use and gives users the peace of mind that their data will always be safe and 100% retrievable if a disaster should strike.

Piecing together data from multiple sources such as several PCs, CDs, DVDs, external drives and flash drives can be a daunting and time consuming task even if "data recovery" from bad media is not necessary.

Protect your data today and store it offline!

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