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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...
Interoperable and Built for Anything
Four years ago Apple killed the SD card slot in its MacBook Pro laptop, much to the outrage of many professional photographers. Why were the shutterbugs mad? Because the SD card is a convenient, small, and ubiquitous standard for raw photos and videos. You’ll find it...
Removable Storage Is Critical to a Variety of Applications
Last week’s blog post mentioned how some Department of Defense agencies utilize removable storage in their advanced flight scenarios. Many people might not have considered how beneficial removable storage is in a situation like that, which got us thinking: what are...
The Importance of Military IT
The Department of Defense (DoD) is responsible for a massive operation of personnel, equipment, vehicles, and more. I use the word “massive,” but it doesn’t even begin to describe the scale of the work that they do. The DoD budget is $716 billion, or 3.1% of the U.S....