NMGI Now Offers Offsite Data Backup – Are You Ready for Complete Data Security?

What if a fire, flood, or another disaster struck your home or office? What if your hard drive failed? What would happen if you lost your important customer or business data? Do you have a strategy to be able to recover from a disaster? Now, off-site data storage is secure, reliable and affordable with eFolder Backup Manager from Network Management Group, Inc..

eFolder Backup Manager is more than just a data backup plan. It is a data recovery system for your business, home office or personal computer.  With eFolder Backup Manager you always have the peace of mind that you will be able to recover easily from an unexpected hard drive or other disaster. You will no longer worry about permanent loss of your data.

How are you backing up your data now, if at all? Traditional backups, mainly tape backups may be effective if handled correctly, but they are hard to maintain, it is very inconvenient to have one person that is responsible for the maintenance. Tape backups are time consuming, and are also very costly.

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Making Sure Disaster Plans Aren't Disasters
It's like practicing a fire drill and discovering that the fire alarm doesn't work.

Since the early 1990s, Countrywide Financial (NYSE:CFC - News) kept a well-honed and updated business continuity plan on how to keep running in the face of a disaster. The $10.5 billion company based in Calabasas, Calif., issues, buys and services mortgages for clients nationally. It was ahead of the curve in prepping for such events.

But it didn't take long for soft spots to develop. During a disaster drill this year, the company found it lacked the redundant networking needed at one location to keep data safe. Such safeguards were in place. But they had been discarded during a planned building move that was later shelved. The firm kept its offices at the site. But the network redundancy was gone, a fact that went undiscovered until the drill alerted managers.

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Prepare for the Unexpected
Having an incident response plan can mean the difference between recovering quickly and losing your business entirely. Learn about some key areas to focus on when developing your incident response plan.

Your business most likely relies on IT for a variety of tasks, including the storage of business documents, customer information, financial records, and accounting information. In addition, you probably rely on computers to conduct many daily business operations. Though no one wants to deal with the possibility of something unfortunate happening to their business, planning for the unexpected today could save your business tomorrow. Here are some key areas to focus on when developing your incident response plan.

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Search Folders - The easy way to find, read, and organize your email

When you look at your e-mail, are you overwhelmed by the way all of your messages pile up in your Inbox? Are messages that you want to follow up on lumped in with those that you want to keep for posterity? Even if you file your e-mail in folders, you may sometimes get that uncomfortable feeling that once a message is filed, you'll forget where you put it. Search Folders can help.

Learn how Search Folders can help you sort, organize, and find your e-mail with minimal effort. After completing this course you will be able to:

◘ Understand how Search Folders work.

◘ Use Search Folders to quickly sort, organize, and find e-mail messages.

◘ Create or modify a Search Folder.

◘ Save the results of a search as a Search Folder.

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