Tool to fix any computer problem: Spotmau PowerSuite 2010

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Are you still struggling with the age-old computer? Does your computer give problems while booting up? Do you often find yourself entangled among a lot of pesky computer problems which simply are making your life hell? Can’t find (or afford) a professional to quickly fix your computer? Sounds familiar situation?? If you find your poor soul fighting these pesky issues, then you’ve come to the right place… If you’re reading this, you are 50% closer to the optimal solution that will take care of all of your computer-related problems, including that of optimization. Yes, I am glad to introduce to you the latest Spotmau PowerSuite 2010 using which users can easily check, optimize, speed up and fix any computer problems on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7.

This stupendous software is developed by Spotmau, the global leader in utilities software and computer services. Some of the key features of Spotmau Powersuite 2010 are:

360°PC Health Check, 1-click to perform a comprehensive health scan for your computer TuneUp kit, includes Windows Speedup, Windows Cleaner and Customization Emergency Kit, includes Windows Recovery, Windows Backup, Data Transfer Data Backup Kit, includes Folder Backup, Folder Recovery, Clone Genius Data Recovery Kit, includes Undelete, Unformat, Raw Rescue Privacy Kit, includes Program Lockup, File Shredder, File Encryption, Personal Safe, Disk Wiper Password Kit, includes Admin/User Password, Password Finder, MS Key Finder Partition Genius, the most easy and comprehensive hard disk partition utility

About Spotmau
Spotmau Corporation was established in April, 2006. It has quickly become the market leader both in software utilities developer and a computer service company. It has been awarded a Certificate of CMMI CL3. A long term and stable cooperation relationship with many leading companies has been established, such as Google, Microsoft, Intel, Digital River, etc. Spotmau.com is a one-stop shop for all your computer needs. It provides both "Fix It Yourself" and "We Fix It For You" services. Their team of Microsoft-Certified Engineers will instantly fix computer problems for you through our Remote Control Platform.

Featured Clients
The list includes influential clients like American Red Cross, Boeing, United States Air Force, ExxonMobil, US Army Corps of Engineers, JC Penny, Air Canada, and Brothersoft.

2 TB enterprise disk drive launched by Seagate

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Seagate Technology Inc. launched on Feb 2 the industry's first 2 TB enterprise-class disk drive as part of a new family of nearline SAS and SATA drives that includes built-in spin-down features for power management. The Constellation and Constellation ES models will replace Seagate's Barracuda ES enterprise drives. (Seagate will keep the Barracuda brand for desktop drives).

Constellation drives are 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) model SAS/SATA drives, with the first ones available in 160 GB and 500 GB capacities. Constellation ES 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives will come in 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB capacities. Seagate forecasts SAS drives eventually replacing Fibre Channel (FC) drives for high-performance applications and showing up in archiving systems.

"We see the world moving to SAS even in the nearline space," says Barbara Craig, senior product marketing manager for Seagate's enterprise compute group. The SAS 2.0 spec improves the performance and scalability of SAS drives, with its main improvement a throughput boost from 3 Gbps to 6 Gbps. The Constellation drives are expected to become available in March, with Constellation ES drives to follow in the second half of the year. A self-encrypting drive (SED) option will be available for Constellation drives in July. With this product line, Seagate will also introduce a new power-efficiency feature called PowerChoice, which is a user- or OEM-controllable spin-down function.

PowerChoice has four levels. With PowerChoice 1 the drive is fully "awake." PowerChoice 2 "parks" the drive head away from the drive platter. PowerChoice 3 spins down the drive partially—in idle mode, Constellation drives on PowerChoice 3 draw 2.8 watts of power for SAS and 2.4 watts for SATA. PowerChoice 4 spins the drive down entirely. Users or OEMs integrating the drive into external storage systems will be able to set the spin-down level according to policy. For example, the drives could be set to go to PowerChoice 3 after 30 minutes of idleness, and to PowerChoice 4 during night or weekend hours.

Western Digital Corp. (WD) released a 2 TB SATA Caviar Green desktop drive last week, also claiming power-saving features. WD's desktop drives spin slower than Seagate's Constellation drive. Part of the distinction between Seagate's enterprise offering and Western Digital's desktop offering is the rpm. Western Digital says the rpm of its drive is variable to maximize power savings, but generally less than 7,200 rpm.

Tips to secure precious data backups

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Data backups are an essential element of good storage security, but they're often vulnerable to attacks. In fact, a significant percentage of security breaches can be attributed to the mismanagement and mishandling of data backups. Millions of records have been compromised in 2008 alone in backup-related gaffes. And these are just the known breaches affecting personal information. There's little doubt that unknown and unreported data backup-related compromises affecting all types of sensitive information - including intellectual property - are just as plentiful. Many storage professionals responsible for backups believe that the mere existence of a process for replicating sensitive data is all that's needed to keep the organization secure. But that's only half the battle. It's what can be done with the data backups after the fact that introduces an entirely different set of risks that are often overlooked.

Here are 10 ways you can ensure that your data backups are secure:

1. Ensure your security policies (right from access controls to physical security to system monitoring) include backup-related systems within their scope.


2. Include your data backup systems in your disaster recovery and incident response plans.


3. Assign backup software access rights only to those who have a business need to be involved in the backup process. Be sure not to overlook any Web-based interfaces that provide backup access and keep your original backup software media secured as well.


4. Store your backups offsite or at least in another building: often ignored but most important!


5. However you choose to store your backups - be it on tape, network-attached storage, or external drives - be sure to control access to the room/car/house in which the backups stored. Handle your backup media as you would any other critical hardware.


6. Use a fireproof and media-rated safe. Many people store their backups in a "fireproof" safe, but typically one that's only rated for paper storage. Don't do this!!


7. Find out the security measures that your vendors for offsite storage, data center and courier services are taking to ensure that your backups remain safe in their hands.


8. Password-protect your backups at a minimum. Passwords aren't foolproof because some people with special skills and tools may be able to crack the code, but it is a level of security that should be considered. However, password-protection, at least, provides a layer of security.


9. Encrypt your backups if your software and hardware support it. Encryption implemented and managed in the right way serves as an excellent last layer of defense. It also helps provide peace of mind knowing that the worst outcome is that you'll have to buy new backup media - especially when it comes to compliance and data breach notifications.


10. Your backups are only as good as what's on the backup media. There are two sides to this coin. First, make sure your backing up everything that's important. Second, test your backups occasionally - especially if you're using tape.

Source: Excerpts from an article by Kevin Beaver, an independent information security consultant, published in TechTarget

FAQ: What is difference between Backup & Archiving?

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Backup: A backup refers to a copy of data that may be used to restore the original in the event the latter is lost or damaged beyond repair. It is a safeguard for data that is being used.

Archive: An archive refers to a single or a collection of historical records specifically selected for long-term retention and future reference. It is usually data that is no longer actively used.

One of the differences worth noting in the above descriptions is that a backup is always a copy while an archive should be the original that was removed from its initial location and sent elsewhere for long-term retention.

Frequently, backup software is configured in an attempt to fulfill both roles. Data backup schedules often include daily incremental backups kept for seven days, a weekly full kept for a month, a monthly full kept for a year and finally, a yearly full kept for seven years. The yearly full backups are often referred to as seven-year archives. Some email programs allow you to create so-called archives from a user's mailbox, but they all end up in one large file (i.e., a PST file for Exchange). So, retrieving an archived record can become a daunting task.

FAQ: Questions you should ask before buying backup software

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If you are buying new (or upgrading existing) backup software, you should ask following "top" 10 questions to your vendor(s) before you make a purchasing decision...

1. What devices (tape, disk or removable media) does the software support? Does it also support all the operating system environments you have and virtualized environments such as VMware? Does it support virtual tape libraries from vendors such as Diligent Technologies, EMC Corp. or Sepaton?
2. Does the backup software include a snapshot capability (integrated or optional module) that allows to take point-in-time copies of the data? If yes, how are they stored?
3. Does the software have the capability to back up remote and/or branch offices?
4. What is the performance of the system with the software in place? Are there performance benchmarks the vendor can supply you with? Are tools available that will identify bottlenecks and predict the performance on the network?
5. Does the software include encryption and compression capability? If so, what is the performance degradation you can expect to see after enabling encryption and compression? What is the impact on the server hosting the backup application?
6. Does the software support remote management? Is there authentication to prevent unauthorized access?
7. Does the software have an option for continuous data protection, in which files and or blocks of data are backed up as changes are made? If so, how granular is the rollback process? Does the software only do CDP for files, or are databases such as Exchange, SQL Server and Oracle included?
8. Is backup reporting software available that reports on the status of the backup, the utilization of the backup media and the success of backup processes?
9. How long the vendor been in business? How long has the product been on the market? Can you get references of its customers you can talk to with?
10. What kind of support is provided by the vendor, and at what charge? How much does training cost? What different levels of support are available (silver, gold, or platinum)?