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Why Reliable Solutions Are Vital
In our first blog post, we wrote about what it means for a company and its products to be “mission ready.” Among the many requirements of mission readiness is the need for devices to operate continuously and be reliable 24/7. After all, when the U.S. military...
Where Are Our Products Made?
A question that we often get from our customers is where our products are made. We know that this is an important question—especially when you consider that our products play a critical role in protecting our customers’ data whether that’s securing our nation’s...
Why Many Are Choosing NVMe SSDs
While it’s been 40 years since flash memory was invented by Toshiba, it’s been over the past two decades that we’ve begun to use it in our everyday lives: thumb drives and compact flash cards (the predecessors to SD cards) entered the market around the year 2000....
What to Do After Your Data Is Breached
The recent news of data breach at Barnes & Noble should come as a surprise to no one given the many recent headlines of similar data security and privacy failures. It happens with such regularity, that some people seem to have given up trying to keep track of what...
Removable Storage and the Cloud
If you’re a business in 2020, there’s a very good chance you store some or all of your data in the cloud. Depending on what you do, that might be a very sound approach to navigating the topsy-turvy waters of data management these days. We’ve talked about the cloud...
Removable Storage Takes Many Forms
As we mentioned a couple weeks ago, removable storage can mean different things to different people. Everything from a thumb drive to a DVD could be considered “removable storage,” but here at CRU we use the phrase to refer to ruggedly built devices designed to easily...
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month, or NCSAM, was created by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance in 2003. Since then, it has become an annual reminder of the very real threats of data breach, and the importance of...
Data Security and Removable Media Policies
Data security is the primary motivation that leads most of our customers to design CRU removable drives into their computing infrastructure and workflows. (BTW, when people use the term ‘removable drives’ or ‘removable media’, that also can include external hard...
Disaster Underscores the Need for Removability
Here in the Pacific Northwest, wildfires have choked the skies with impenetrable clouds of smoke that hide the sun and makes it difficult to breathe. Thousands of people have been displaced, and it’s caused businesses large and small to temporarily close. Over the...