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New technology has made it affordable for medium and small businesses to take advantage of data storage. Some companies even specialize in storage for home networks and individual computers.

The storage companies send off site data backup software to the new customer to install. This enables the user to select the files to be stored and how often copies will be uploaded over a LAN or the Internet. The off site data backup software is different for different companies. High-end off site data backup software is able to backup open files without any add-ons, including the complex files for database programs. Some off site data backup software comes ready for multi-site backup for small businesses with multiple office locations.

Very good off site data backup software even offers online access to the user’s files. Most off site data backup software is ready to backup a variety of platforms and set the online schedules for automatic copying. Once a user understands how much data storage he needs, he’s ready to select his storage company and its offsite data backup software.

True that the internet from the local to the global network has improved greatly in the way it works as it becomes part or forms the Internet. There are still many issues like reliability that continue to be tested each and everyday behind our backs as we click away on our keyboards and mice. Many network monitoring systems like the Global Emergency response centers in Singapore, who keep watch over the internet for new threats such as viruses and worms that can cause global chaos (well to the internet that is). These people employ the best in their fields, from programmers, system analysts, network specialists and technical advisers as they attempt to beat threats before they set the internet on fire so to speak. Previous attacks have left us with no internet service for days as worms flood web mail servers with excessive junk email which eventually slow and even shut down due to lacking disk space and bandwidth. These attacks have had new links formed in hopes of taking over failed links in the net so if they were to happen the internet would re-route itself to new connections as if there was nothing wrong. The problem is then localized and then finally neutralized which can leave damages in the millions of dollars in lost revenue for web based businesses.

The physical web is now threatened by the virtual one with the inception of the virtual web page. A virtual web page would have a user immersed into the web page itself walking around as you go through the several pages knocking to open new ones as you go around a virtual town to get hold of information you need. Go up to a virtual bank where you go around and do your banking as if you were there. Visit the local supermarket as you browse to select preferred items to add to your grocery list, receiving it a few hours later. Virtualization is the next step in the social web which would allow all the users to interact with each other without being physically there. So watch out for the next step in the social network where we don’t connect to but enter and partake in.

Many of you have probably received various emails from unknown origins and while you want to believe in them, don’t! They are scammers who are up to no good and if you are not careful, you may end up being the victim of a serious hoax online.

Identity theft, also known as ID theft, describes a type of fraud where a criminal adopts someone else’s identity in order to profit illegally. It is one of the fastest growing forms of fraud in many developed countries.

It’s easy to imagine criminal masterminds worldwide using the internet to hack into computers in order to gain access to information with which to advance their devilishly cunning schemes.

When you talk about logging your PC on the web, you have a couple of things to consider. But the most important one is perhaps to answer this question: Are You Sure You are safe from Harm on the Web?

Is a simple antivirus application enough to protect your PC against all threats?

No longer are viruses the only threat on the internet. In recent years other threats have evolved which include spyware, adware, hacking, identity theft, information theft, pop-ups and the loss of information.

Since the introduction of cable modems and DSL everyone’s PC is online all the time and accessible.

The experts have spoken and they have delivered a verdict, the internet will be maxed out by 2010 and that’s final. During that time, the internet would be too congested to deliver the best possible internet experience and it doesn’t end there. Industry experts are talking about having to totally re-do the net (including the cabling and support structures) along with all the software that is designed to work with it to allow it to deliver the best possible speeds that technology has to offer. Current technology installed are antiquated some even as old as the net itself and most are in need of total refurbishing. Though most of the hardware is hot-swappable, newer technology is more powerful and consumes less electricity. The only problem is the will power and budget for the proposed changes would cost billions of dollars and commitments from all the countries and governments on the globe.

There was a time when your bag held a gadget known as a personal organizer that costs a couple of hundred bucks. They were the gadget to have and most office workers had them as a status symbol of the working class. Then came the ever smaller handheld computers that ran stripped down versions of your Laptop OS and everything changed overnight, they took the stage and everyone wanted one. Out with the PDA and in with the Handheld. Then Intel announces a new line of low-power processors they called the Atom that was combined with Centrino technology that allowed your Ultra-portable to become as powerful as your computer yet lighter than your keyboard. Advances in memory technology has flash drives replacing hard disks further extending the amount of power available. It will only be time when the computing power of your handheld would be equal to your gaming PC just with a smaller screen (you can use those magnifying gadgets they used on GameBoy’s). Besides, Man went to the moon with less computing power than your washing machine! The sky’s the limit.

Many in the business community hail the Blackberry as the best merging of technologies that have allowed the combination of a PDA, Cellular phone and Web PC all bundled into one small black package. Well, they’re not all black; they come in different colors too. But the Blackberry has transformed the office allowing you to take your mailbox with you as long as there is a mobile signal. The utter toughness of these small computers has allowed businessmen to keep in touch with their staff and bosses extending the office to where ever on earth you may be. They can be used in most of the major city centers but outside of them there is not much support for the place of a blackberry is in it’s own network. The latest release, the Smartphone in the form of the Blackberry Pearl 8110 loaded with some of the most sophisticated features like an on-board GPS, a digital camera with video capability and newer colors to appeal more to the females in the office.

The only problem is that businesses may not like the idea of a smart web for it would further erode the defined lines between a business network and a social web combining all the aspects of business into one big collection of knowledge that is accessible to all. The internet has truly changed the way we live and go about our business but I think this upgrade to the internet would take a lot of time, the costs are staggering for it would surely run in the billions of dollars for all the major links of the internet would have to be replaced with faster technology that allows current applications to run better and faster of course. Time will tell if the new and improved version of the Internet would become reality, with the global economy slowing, people have that at the back of their minds focusing more on where they would be getting their next meal.

The idea of upgrading the internet may seem farfetched but the advent of the social web has become partially successful once all the current security problems have been addressed. The idea of having a WEB 3.0 might seem far off, but remember the fact that there are already studies being done to upgrade the internet. We’re not talking about the programs but the system itself, all the hardware and antiquated stuff that have accumulated into the thing we all call the internet. Maybe that would bring the new and improved WEB 3.0 into more of a fact for re-designing hardware and the software that is designed to work on it may be the key to solving the security nightmare we’re currently in.