Traditional infrastructure is extremely vulnerable to a number of threats including, viruses, human error, hardware failure, software corruption, power outages and unforeseeable natural disasters such as floods and fires. The beauty of the cloud is that if a business loses data for any of these reasons they can be back up and running immediately.

Last week the Security and Exchange Commission shut down a worldwide pyramid scheme that was targeting Asian-American, Hispanic and foreign investors promising high returns for investments from cloud computing services. WCM and WCM777, the companies behind the scheme, raised more than $65 million in 2013. They promised gullible investors that they could double their money in 100 days by investing anywhere from $300 to $1,999 in cloud services.

Backup has come a very long way in its long history and this great infographic shows just how that progression has been made possible.

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This week Google's Gmail turned 10 years old. Email has come a long way in its long lifetime but no provider has made as much of an impact as Google. With over 500 million users Gmail is the largest email service and has become a part of our daily lives.

A key benefit to the cloud is scalability. This allows a business to upscale or downscale their IT requirements when needed. For example, a company creates an incredible product and it starts to take off. The business is growing at a dizzying rate and it’s time to expand.

Blackberry earned a prelimianry sales injunction against the Ryan Seacrest backed Typo keyboard attachment for iPhone, reports Reuters. Blackberry filed the suit in January due to "blatant infringement" of the Blackberry keyboard.

After a quick glance at the keyboard attachment it is obvious where Blackberry is seeing similarities, which is why there is a sales ban for now.

Ohhhh yes welcome to Throwback Thursday. Now I realize that you can still purchase a disposable camera in most Wal-marts but I don't think I've seen anyone use one in the last 5 years. Back in the day though, these trusty little companions were essential for any trip.

What’s your reaction when the “Check Engine” light goes on while you are driving your car? Do you immediately head to your local mechanic to have it diagnosed? Are you a DIYer who stops by the local auto parts supplier to get a free scan, or perhaps you own your own OBD2 scanner and use it to retrieve the error codes? Or, do you just continue to drive around hoping that it will eventually go out? The problem with that is the light usually doesn't go out – it just stays on, glowing at you as if to say “Hey, we have a problem here…..don’t ignore me!!!” I've known some people who cover it with tape just to feel less guilty.

Last Friday Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made headlines when he blocked access to Twitter due to apparent widespread dissemination of high-level corruption evidence. The people of Turkey were able to navigate around these blocks by using Google's alternate domain name server (DNS) service.

When you look back on it what downsides were there to VHS? Exactly, none. They didn't scratch, they didn't have annoying menus, no bonus material because, lets be honest who wants to hear where Tom Cruise got his inspiration from anyways.

Sure rewinding took a while, but that gave you time to make some popcorn.