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The Single Most Important Thing to Prepare for Disasters

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On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. What little remains we will mirror up to virtual servers somewhere, possibly Amazon. Image 1: NTEN. Image 2: Tech Impact.

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4 Digestible Cloud Computing Facts

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Image courtesy of pixavi. A great example of an IaaS is Amazon Web Services which provides users the ability to store, backup, and access files and information. Does your potential cloud vendor offer back-up services, encryption services, secure transmission of data, and have a disaster recovery plan in place for you data?

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What if Cloud Vendors Go Out of Business or Delete Your Account?

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OnLive , a popular cloud-hosted gaming service, recently filed for bankruptcy. Nearly all the major cloud vendor companies like Google, Microsoft, Sony, and Amazon have been hit by hacker attacks that have caused service disruptions. Do they rely on a larger cloud platform like Amazon? Image: Cloud security from Shutterstock.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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The case originated in Spain where a man there filed a complaint arguing that Google's search results infringed on his privacy. Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. Images: Image one: Fog & The Bridge: Mohit Hingorani / CC BY. Image two: Crowdfunding: Lulu Pinny / CC BY. Image three: Microsoft Imagine Cup.

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

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Some of those images were released on sites like Reddit, Imgur, and 4chan in an attempt to sell them for bitcoin , the virtual currency, and then shared far and wide. Images: Image 1 : CLF / CC BY-NC-ND. Image 2 : Bank Simple / CC BY-NC-ND. Why It Should Matter to Organizations. Back Up Your Data Securely.

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud

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For example, do you need multiple versions of files or the ability to permanently archive deleted information? Realistically, the big cloud vendors (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) Image: happy clouds. But if you stop paying a cloud vendor, they will shut off your account and delete your data. And that's okay.

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The Wildness in the Corner: A Discussion with Jason Nelson

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It’s this idea of taking your fiction or poetry and dispersing it out on the web in places where people can enter things—like into an Amazon book review. But then I started getting hundreds of these emails, and finally someone sent me an email address that referenced a file name. I thought it was spam.