Creating a Complete Data Protection and Restoration Strategy by Jason Perry
Creating a Complete Data Protection and Restoration Strategy Backing up your data is the best way to prevent losing it. This method comes into play when you’ve suffered a system failure or hardware corruption. Your IT folks simply—or not so simply, depending on the method you used for... No matter what you do, data backup is the most essential part of a data protection plan. ... There are other steps you can take, in concert with data backup, to help protect your data. ... With data backup as the cornerstone of your plan, there are about a half a dozen other actions you can incorporate...

How To Protect Your Computer System Against a Power Surge by Andrea Stone
The spring season is in bloom. For most, it represents a time of warmer temperatures and relaxation. But unfortunately, it can also mean strong storms including lightning strikes. As these storms are now appearing on a more frequent basis, is your computer system protected? ... Contact a Hard Drive Recovery Company If Your System Has Suffered a Power Surge If the data on the hard drive is worth preserving, you can contact a hard drive recovery company to recover the data. ... A data recovery lab can replace the internal parts of the hard disk and retrieve the existing data.

European Data Recovery Companies Are Between Their Rich Rhymes And Poor Substance by Dimetry Snagov
Often European forensic & data recovery specialists, use cheap sales tricks with claims that they have acquired/developed machines capable of reading the hdd platters inside damaged SATA RAID servers and conventional hard disk platters without changing the heads. ... While, sales myths are circulating among data recovery sales representatives in the USA & Western Europe, advanced data recovery technologies have predominantly been emerging from the Far-East, the former Eastern Block countries & India.

Microsoft SQL 2000 Disaster Recovery with SANRAD V-Switch - Planning Guide by Efrat Aharoni-Levi
Introduction Designing a disaster recovery system requires planning and consideration of the available options that will best fit your company’s needs, SLA and budget. With SANRAD DR Solution there is no need to use Log shipping (which requires extra recovery steps) or Microsoft SQL’s built in... The most influential factors affecting design consideration are: • Budget limitations • Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements (the time until the data is back online) • Recovery Point Objective (RPO) requirements (the amount of data that can be lost) • Network bandwidth between the...

Data Recovery Tips by Paul MacIver
If you have ever faced the loss of data, you will know what it’s like to have anxiety over severe trouble with your server, hard disk or RAID health. This is however, a time for some caution in terms of time and money. Data recovery can sometimes be worked out yourself, with help of software and... If you have tried all the normal methods and you still have a problem with your data drives, it's time to hunt for a data recovery company. ... Data loss If you suspect any data corruption, drive corruption, or data loss, the possible symptoms will be: • Error messages informing you that the...

Five Steps to Assuring Successful Recovery of Data by Jason Perry
According to the National Archives & Records Administration in Washington, D.C., 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 or more days due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year. Whether your business data is in the form of a customer electronic database, office documents... Before you can get your data back, it's vital that you follow these five data recovery tips: STEP ONE: Determine the value of the data. ... Since human error accounts for 11% of all data loss, it would save you a lot of valuable time, if the data recovery company who you are working with had...

Mystery of the Unknown! by Dina Safar
Your Work place is no longer available, disaster has struck, and time is money! How many times have you heard these statements? It is a nightmare for CIOs and IT directors to have to explain downtime to their CEO and CFO. For many CEOs and CFOs, what was important yesterday is no longer valid... One of the major technical challenges in maintaining a backup data center is in keeping the data at the backup data center synchronized with the data in the primary data center. ... Does the company need business continuity to the extent of an off-site disaster recovery?

Security - Data Recovered by Scott Lindsay
The world’s population put a lot of faith in their computers. This is as true for online businesses as for personal computing. But what happens when your computer crashes? Data Recovery The benefits of data that is backed up by one or more sources are incredible. ... If your data is not extremely large you can always save it on a CD-ROM, re-writable disk or jump drive. ... Inevitable Recovery Make sure to have phone numbers for technical support in a central location along with the software product, manuals and registration numbers you have for your computer.

How To Limit Hard Drive Data Recovery Costs by James Allen
With the value on information rising day by day, one of the greatest threats to businesses of any size is data loss. If the data centers in your business have ever experienced a hard drive disaster, you quicky realized just how valuable the information lost is. ... By discovering problems before they have a chance to wreak havock on your data, they will have an opportuntiy to back the data up before it is no longer retrievable. ... And then, the situation becomes even worse, when you realize how much it is going to cost for a disaster recovery specialist to try and retrieve or restore your...

Eight Reasons to Increase Backup Spending When the Economy Slows by Bud Stoddard
Eight Reasons to Increase Backup Spending When the Economy Slows   by Bud Stoddard, President & CEO, AmeriVault Corp.   To say we have seen a significant downturn in the economy in the past twelve months would be hyperbole at its best.   As business and technology executives and...   Hopefully, if I am successful, a few of you will suck it up and advocate within your company, the spending of more rather than less on backing up your company’s mission-critical data. ...   Could you or anybody on your management team or staff, following a data loss or disaster tell you from...