It’s the must-watch video for anyone trying to wrap their minds around just how immersed web technologies have become in our everyday lives, according to Mashable.com.
For example:
- There are 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of September 2009.
- There are 1.4 billion e-mail users worldwide, and on average we collectively send 247 billion e-mails per day. Unfortunately 200 billion of those are spam e-mails.
- As of December 2009, there are 234 million websites.
You know the feeling: You finally discover the perfect solution to a particularly vexing problem.
Justice
CPA Scot Justice (“The Virtual CFO“) knows the feeling all too well. But he’s also found his answer.
He reports:
I have to say on the front end that backups aren’t sexy or exciting, but they are critical to your company’s continued operations in the event you have a disaster strike your firm. Disaster can take the form of PC failure, natural disasters, and theft.
When I opened CPA for Small Business, LLC , I made the decision to have a paperless office. I was successful in doing this in the first year, but as my practice grew the mounting cost of off-site backups made this less desirable. So after a year or so, I moved to a quasi-paperless office. Under this system, I kept critical documents in a paperless format, but kept uncritical documents in my filing cabinet kept workpapers.
CloudBerry Online Backup is a PC based backup client that allows you to save your documents to an Amazon S3 backup site. For a month, I tested the CloudBerry Backup and Amazon S3 Hosting before moving to it exclusively. I’ve been impressed with both Amazon S3 as well as CloudBerry’s AS3 client software.
