Macrium Software

Magnetic and flash storage have long dominated the storage landscape. They both continue to see innovation in both capacity, cost, and performance. Though many have predicted the death of magnetic media, it still remains the best choice where cost per unit storage is the key metric....

I won’t go on about how 2020 has been a difficult year. It has — and there are many reasons to be thankful that it’s over. However, the challenges of the sheer strangeness of 2020 have taught us many lessons, particularly when it comes to resilience — digital or otherwise....

Apple’s new ARM-based M1 processor, which ships with the company’s latest generation of Macbooks, will have almost certainly caught the attention of Microsoft. As we target the Windows platform and closely follow hardware trends, it certainly caught ours....

Do you know the most important step in the entire back up process? Recovery. After all, what’s the point of running a backup on a regular basis if you’re unable to restore your data?...

Over the last few weeks, we have been working on replacing use of the Windows task scheduler (WTS). The release of Reflect 7.3 is the culmination of this work....

Here at Macrium we’ve been working hard on improving our Site Manager platform. Over the last couple of months we’ve made some exciting changes, but last week we made what we think could be one of the most significant updates since Site Manager was first launched: ransomware protection for repositories that are hosted directly on the Site Manager server....

There are many challenges that are part and parcel of being an MSP: managing customers with very different needs and demands, dealing with complex and untidy infrastructures and legacy systems, and, of course, the battle to win new business....

For many people thinking about backup, it’s hard to think outside of the cloud paradigm. Cloud computing has become such an established part of our digital lives — and, moreover, somewhere that feels both limitless in its size and easily accessible — that it seems to just make sense to put important snapshots of your data there. However, cloud backup isn’t always the best approach; while it does have many advantages, there are other options, such as NAS and external hard drives....

Cloud backup and cloud sync are two very different ways of managing data. Together, they illustrate the level of flexibility that cloud offers us, and the sheer range of options we have at our disposal when it comes to sharing and securing data....

Back in April, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella claimed that the company had seen “2 years of digital transformation in 2 months” as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. Although the statement might seem somewhat hyperbolic, looking back from our current place in time, it’s difficult to dispute that we’ve all been caught up in a wave of tremendous and rapid change....