Do You Have The One Key Ingredient Necessary For Disaster Recovery? by Renee Rich
It is not rocket science, we all know that we should have a disaster recovery plan in place for our business regardless of its size. When disaster strikes, it seldom discriminates on the size of the company. Every business is vulnerable. Whether the disaster is a hurricane, tornado or the latest... Server disaster recovery software is available for those caught without a plan or those who failed to properly implement a data backup plan. ... It is virtually impossible, to be organized and strategically think through and implement a disaster recovery plan while in the throws of a disaster.

Data Disaster Recovery - Is It Really Necessary? by Greg Eiskins
When people think of disasters, they mainly think of flooding or earthquakes. In the world of computer experts or people who makes their living using information technology, a disaster can be quite different and yet can have the same paralyzing effects. ... Data recovery experts are specialized in multiple areas of recovering data including, but not limited to: fire recovery, water damage recovery, and miscellaneous crash recovery that may have occurred with an act involving a sledgehammer and a frustrated information technology worker on his last day of work when the coffee was cold and...

Disaster Recovery, Are You Prepared? by Lee A. Smith
Disaster recovery is one of the most important factors for most businesses, yet it is often overlooked or considered too expensive to implement. Disaster recovery solutions enable a business to continue working in the event of fire, theft, malfunction or terrorism. ... Imagine having your company's entire data, software and structure housed in two separate data centres, spread across two different ISPs, and having all your systems and data held on servers that have their own backup servers to automatically switch on, in the event of failure.

2 Tips to Getting the Best Data Recovery Companies on Your Side by Tony Roberts
Forbid it that you have to experience a major hard disk crash – containing a lifetime of work – before considering the importance of your company’s data. Since today’s economy is becoming increasingly technology driven, the loss of sensitive data without backups is tantamount having your... Choose the Right Company - When considering a data recovery company, always consider whether they have the right equipment and facilities to deal with your data recovery needs. ... If the data is valuable but ultimately not invaluable – you may try some data recovery techniques that you can perform...

If Your Hard Disk Crashes, Is Your Data Covered By Any Warranty? by Per Strandberg
This was a question that was recently put by forward on a TV consumer show. One guy had his hard disk crashed and lost all data. He was able to get his hard disk replaced because of a warranty. To retrieve the data he had it sent to a data recovery company to get it recovered. ... As long as the hard disk only have a mechanical or electronic fault and it have not been exposed to water or fire the track record for restoring the data by a professional data recovery company is quite good. ... It’s always worthwhile to backup all your data or at least backup the data that is most important for...

Backup Your Priceless Memories by Greg Duffield
Data loss can be a big problem for any business, but sometimes it’s an even bigger issue for home users. Think about all the family pictures you keep stored on your computer, the e-mails between family and friends, the home videos, etc. In today’s world, most home computers contain data that you... Data recovery companies can help you, but the costs can be high, and in some cases the data is simply unrecoverable. ... After much work, they were able to get a good image of the drive and eventually got to the point where a recovery of the data could be made.

Understanding, Diagnosing, Recovering and Preventing Data Loss by Paul Korber
Data loss is a serious issue, which most businesses and individuals will encounter at some point in their digital lives. It can cripple businesses, ruin careers and generally cause a great deal of unnecessary stress. This article will attempt to generalize a strategy for dealing with such... In general it is always best to first consult a data recovery specialist, however this is dependent on the value of the data which has been threatened, Data recovery software essentially analyzes, repairs and recovers corrupted and/or lost data and assists in re-linking the information, which has...

Hard Drive Dead? Bring those Files Back from the Dead with the Help of a Data Recovery Service by Tony Roberts
How many times did you hear your colleague remind you to back up those files? Many times already! But did you listen? No. A thing such as data loss can never happen to you. Not with your brand new, shiny pc. But apparently you were wrong. The worse has happened and you didn’t expect it. ... Data recovery service includes rescuing of lost data from hard drives (and other media including DVD, RAID, backup tapes, disk arrays, floppies, CD-ROM, iPods and other MP3 players, digital camera media and removable cartridges) that is caused by hard drive failure/crash, corruption, human error,...

Lightning Season: How to Avoid Data Loss by Woody Bowers
We have just entered the time of year that most electrical storms occur. Sudden loss of power, power surges, and electrical spikes are all very common causes of computer damage. There is no way to stop Mother Nature however; there are some precautionary measures that can be taken to save your... Brian Cain, data recovery consultant at EcoDataRecovery.com suggests “If your computer is unprotected from power issues and you know there is a storm headed your way -shut down your computer if possible, disconnect the power cable and telephone line until the storm passes.” If your computer has...

Using SANRAD V-Switch as the VSS Hardware Provider for Windows Backups by Efrat Aharoni-Levi
Introduction Many Microsoft Window applications (like Exchange, MS-SQL, etc) are critical to the daily core functionality for many companies and organizations. Managing the data backup for these applications presents new challenges for system administrators. ... Summary The combined solution of Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), SANRAD V-Switch as the VSS storage provider and backup VSS aware applications (like Veritas BackupExec V10) allow companies to offload backup jobs from the production environment, leave applications up for user access while backing up the data and have...