Malware, ransomware, and electrical fires are just a few of the problems that can compromise a company's data — or make it disappear altogether. Any CIO could tell you that the adage, "Hope for the best, plan for the worst," can make all the difference when faced with a true data disaster. Here are a few data recovery and disaster planning tips and tricks from around the web this week:

For most people, social media sites like Facebook and Instagram are the option of first (and often last) resort to store photos and videos, from a child’s birth to the minutiae of daily life. Facebook users alone upload a staggering 350 million photos every day. Photo albums these days are mostly digital, accessible with a click or finger tap instead of packed away in the basement.

Data loss, whether on a small scale like an employee's computer crashing or a larger-scale disaster, can bring a business’ productivity to a halt and cost both time and money. One way that companies avoid data loss is through image backup, a continuous backup method that takes a perfect carbon copy image of a drive or an entire system. In honor of World Backup Day on March 31st, Joel Berman, an Acronis fellow and longtime IT professional, explains how image backup works — and how it can help IT managers recover quickly from a system failure:

As BYOD goes mainstream in the workplace, the stock of mobile-savvy IT pros is on the rise. Businesses need employees who understand how mobile and cloud technologies are changing the modern enterprise — and IT pros may soon be able to prove their chops with BYOD certifications. That’s right, we can expect a new IT class of card-carrying BYOD experts.