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Backblaze, a leader in cloud storage, just celebrated its fifth anniversary. While the company is now profitable and its seven founders are getting paid salaries, that wasn't always the case.

When malware slips past antivirus, it then can get swept up in an enterprise's system backup -- and ultimately reinfect systems when they restore from their contaminated backup.

Here's something no one likes to think about: backing up your Mac. It's an arduous task, but backing up your system periodically is important to ensure you don't lose data to hardware malfunction, human error, or software corruption.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today reddit is proud to invite computer users around the world to celebrate the second annual "World Backup Day." The idea for the holiday originated with a biology student at Youngstown State, Ismail Jadun, who identified the need for a backup day after reading comments on reddit discussing backup ... (more)

A yottabyte isn't what happens when the Jedi master starts gnawing on your leg. It's the information equivalent of one quadrillion gigabytes, or 1024 bytes, and is enough digital data to fill the states of Delaware and Rhode Island with a million data centers, according to Backblaze .