Greater Lafayette Commerce Expo | ioSafe Rugged Portable

Yesterday I had the pleasure of setting up a trade show booth at the business expo to promote the ioSafe Rugged Portable hard drive. Throughout the day I had some great conversations with everyone from small business owners, Mobile DJ's and photographers to some outstanding enterprise executives. Photo courtesy of John CondreayCondreay Photography and Aerial Photos.


Our booth comprised of a "Test Your Strength" demonstration where we let expo attendees and exhibitors try to crush the portable hard drive from ioSafe in a vice, the prize was an ioSafe Solo hard drive. Throughout the day we had many great efforts to crush the ioSafe, but to no avail. In fact, at the end of the day the VICE ACTUALLY BROKE and snapped into pieces while Chris Voglund of Artisan Electric attempted to smash the hard drive. In this particular test, the ioSafe hard drive wins again! All in all it was a very successful day with many great connections made. I look forward to building upon the relationships we established at the show.

To learn more about the ioSafe rugged portable please refer to the following links:

http://www.iosafe.com/products-rugged-portable-overview

ioSafe vs. 12 ga. Shotgun

Backup your Digital Camera Photos | We Love Photography

We love over the top megapixel, high definition images.

And we are not alone! A quick visit to Flickr reaffirms that millions of photography lovers (be they professional or amateur) take hundreds of millions of digital photos. The majority of people never realize how important it is to backup or copy their digital photos to another location such as an external hard drive, the cloud, flickr or picasa until they are on the brink of disaster.

Every day we trust our digital memories to our computers without a second thought. Generally speaking, this means to one location, one hard drive on a single laptop or workstation...and this is bad news waiting to happen. Computers and hard drives are subject to data loss, whether from accidental deletion, mechanical failure, computer virus of natural disaster; all hard drives are susceptible.

Never fear, there are options, there are choices for you the photography lover and below are 5 EASY WAYS to backup your photos.

1) Copy your pictures to an external hard drive. Remember to "copy" not just move your photos to another drive. You want your files in at least two locations.

2) Upload your photos to flickr. Flickr is more than just a photo sharing website, it's a place to remotely store your digital photos and video for access on any device with an internet connection. You can keep all those photos private if you choose.

3) NAS - for those unfamiliar with network storage, these are external storage devices with hard drives inside. Rather than attaching directly to your computer or laptop, these devices allow you to connect multiple computers and even mobile devices for backing up photos, documents and video.

3) RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks is tech speak for multiple hard drives, that are backup copies or share the copied data. RAID is important for many reasons, most importantly that your data is in more than one location and can be automated to make backup copies.

4) Cloud Storage - Whether you think of Mozy, DropBox, Carbonite or Amazon S3, cloud storage means that you save your data to an off site location. Each of these services has its pros and cons

5) Off Site Backup - take a copy of your data to another location! Whether you choose a portable hard drive, thumb drive or stack of CDs or DVDs this method is great for those that have the time and resources.

Of course there are pros and cons to each of the above methods for backing up your digital photos. What's important is that you start backing up today so you don't lose your precious photos tomorrow.

ioSafe Rugged Portable External Hard Drives

Going to CES 2011 was a literal "BLAST" with the ioSafe crew. I was fortunate to be part of Demo-Lition 2011 as I was for the 2010 and 2009 events in Las Vegas.

This year ioSafe debuted the Rugged Portable hard drive, a USB 3.0 external hard drive that is protected from drop, shock, crush, water, high altitude and even 12 gauge shotguns. In case you are not familiar with ioSafe hard drives, your purchase includes a no questions asked data recovery service and no-hassle warranty.

ioSafe takes great pride in protecting data and helping their customers recover data in the event of a disaster...whether that be a fire or flood (read coffee spill) or the hard drive breaks (on purpose or by accident), ioSafe is there to help. It's very refreshing to witness first hand the great pride and passion that everyone at ioSafe has for protecting data - no matter if it's vital business records or your family photos.

CES ended with a "bang" as the Rugged Portable hard drive won the CNET Best of CES 2011 Award for Storage. Congratulations to Robb Moore and the entire team at ioSafe for continuing to engineer products that are world's most rugged and backing them with the best warranty in the industry.

I look forward to sharing more news as ioSafe continues to be on leading edge of hard drive storage, data security and mitigating data loss.

Thanks as always to all of our clients worldwide, we greatly appreciate your business and the trust you place in our team. I wish you all the best in 2011 and beyond!

Best Regards,

Johnny Klemme

Seagate Blackarmor NAS

If you are looking for a solid data backup plan it's best to combine NAS storage, RAID, disaster proof hardware off site storage.

For those that are looking to make it easy on their pocketbooks, the Seagate BlackArmor combined with ioSafe external hard drive could be the ticket.

NAS (network attached storage) or file sharing is a storage hardware device that is connected to your local ethernet network at your home or office. All of your computers, laptops or netbooks can acces the NAS, backup files, access files while in the room or on the road. It's part of the personal cloud. NAS storage like the Seagate Blackarmor allows for RAID or redundancy of data backup (mitigating the risk of losing your data in a hard drive crash) and connects to an external hard drive that is fireproof and waterproof. This combination of fast access speeds, remote access, disaster protection, hard drive redundancy and data recovery service offers the best combination of backup, storage and recovery options.

Learn more about the Seagate BlackArmor

ioSafe SoloPRO USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

ioSafe is getting ready to ship their newest and best fireproof/waterproof hard drive, the SoloPRO. Cased in a sleek "aircraft black box" this external desktop drive features your choice of eSATA/ uSB 2.0 or USB 3.0 connectivity.

For businesses that run Windows servers, the eSATA option will provide great performance and flexibility. The ioSafe SoloPRO is available with up to 2TB of data storage with the option to go with SATA or SSD (solid state hard drives) and can withstand temperatures up to 1,550 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes and a full water submersion to a depth of 10 feet of fresh or saltwater for up to three days. The unit comes with USB 2.0 (480 megabits per second) and eSATA (3 gigabits per second) interfaces. A USB 3.0 interface is also an option, which puts the Super USB speed in a close race with eSATA.

For more information on these USB 3.0 External hard drives visit www.iosafe.com

GSA Approved Paper Shredders

High Security Paper Shredders | Crosscut Shredding for Top Secret and Classified Documents

For environments that fall under GSA Approved or NSA Security requirements such as the United States Military and Federal Government agencies we offer Dahle High Security Shredders with the NSA/CSS Specification 02-01. Many of our clients who purchase GSA Approved Security Containers or Safes that are Class 5 or 6 also buy a shredder to get a package discount.


20434 High Security Shredder
One of our most popular crosscut paper shredders from Dahle features the following specs.

Shred Size - 1mm x 4.7mm
Capacity - Up to 8 sheets for Top Secret & Classified Documents
Shred Type - Crosscut
Waste Volume - 10 gallons


For more information call Toll Free 1-866-867-0306

Learn more about paper shredder brands:

www.dahle.com

Magnetic GSA Container Signs

We offer all of our clients the magnetic form holder signs that indicate whether your GSA security container, safe or vault is open or closed.

These signs are used to help mitigate risk and improve security of documents and/or materials stored inside your container.