Gary Dietz, from Acronis here again. Lots of exciting stuff coming up in the next 30 days at Acronis to celebrate World Backup Day. But before I tell you about them, I want to show you something I saw at my small-town New Hampshire barber shop a few weeks back. I took this image on my smartphone. Only the shop name and phone number has been blurred:

Sharing and receiving files, data, and documents is an essential part of doing business. In fact, it’s such a present, everyday need that many businesses turn to the most convenient and affordable option they can find – often that means using free File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers. Although FTP is widely available and fairly easy to use, it comes with noteworthy drawbacks. FTP technology dates back to the 1970s and in today’s digital and mobile world, can’t be relied upon to handle sensitive data and file sharing.

If you’ve seen the news lately, maybe you read that a Los Angeles hospital paid a ransom of nearly $17,000 in bitcoins to hackers because “paying was in the best interest of the hospital and most efficient way to solve the problem,” according to the medical center’s chief executive, Allen Stefanek.

There is not a single IT organization out there today that’s not taking mobility and everything related to it very seriously. More employees than ever need to access company information and documents to do their jobs from any place, at any time. It’s all about productivity, customer satisfaction, service, closing deals, and the bottom line.