Katherine Eitel

It never feels like Fall officially until I see the Geese as I did today over my horizon, two groups seamlessly heading south for the winter, effortlessly aligning themselves into one cohesive group, a new bird sliding in to take his turn as the leader, soon to be replaced by another when he tired.

I thought how much this family of geese, and their strategies to ensure the survival and ultimate success of their entire flock, was akin to my friends, colleagues, and loved ones who circle back around me, taking the lead when I tire, encouraging me forward, never once considering leaving me behind... knowing there will come a day when I will take my turn in the lead.

Later, I Googled this phenomenon with geese and found the following facts.  Nature ultimately makes no mistakes and I hope you will enjoy the inherent lessons for all of us embedded in Mother Nature's classroom.  This Thanksgiving weekend, I'm once again grateful for the gift of work that makes a difference in the world within such a rich network of people.  I deeply love this connection we all have out here in the ether ... on "the cloud."

Fact One:  As each goose flaps its wings, it creates an "uplift" for the other birds to follow.  By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew alone.

Fact Two:  When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of flying alone.  It quickly moves back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front of it.

Fact Three:  When the lead goose tires, it rotates back into the formation and another goose flies to the front position.

Fact Four:  (My personal favorite!)  The geese flying in formation honk to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.

Fact Five:  When a goose is sick, wounded, or shot down, two geese drop out of formation and follow it down to help and protect it.  They stay with it until it dies or is able to fly again.  They then launch out to catch up with the flock or rejoin another formation.

In the old days, if your office manager called in sick it meant someone had to run a backup at the end of the day. And chances were nobody really knew how to do a data backup that would actually restore. Most likely, when the office manager was out, the backup process probably didn't happen.

But that's old school.

Today's current technology standard is the cloud. With your practice on the cloud, you never worry about data backup, even when your office manager doesn't make it into the office. With your practice on the cloud your data is securely stored on multiple servers in multiple geographical locations.

But wait! There's more to the cloud than multiple backups.

Specific to Curve Dental, your data is backed up with nearly every keystroke. If your data ever has to be restored (and on the cloud it rarely if ever happens), it can be restored to the very last change you made before things went south.

With older technology your data is likely being backed up at night. That's all fine and dandy; but if you need to restore your data you're only able to restore to the end of the previous day. If things go wrong on a Wednesday afternoon, you'll only be able to restore up to Tuesday night. That means most of Wednesday's data is gone. And losing your data to silly things like that is so 1990's.

Don't you think it's time you moved your practice to something a little more modern?

You can learn more about our data backup advantages by chatting with one of our dental software consultants at 888-910-4376. Call today to learn more or visit our website. Or, you may want to download one or two special whitepapers (we call them orangepapers) that talk more about data backup and proper disaster planning:

Free Orangepaper: Five Risks with Traditional Backup for Dental Software

Another Free Orangepaper: Disaster Planning for the Dental Office

Mother: Has your tooth stopped hurting yet?

Son: I don't know. The dentist kept it.

More people use blue toothbrushes than red toothbrushes.