The Worst Case Scenario: How To Protect Your Data by Peter Stewart
Just another day, doing as you always do with your computer. Making documents, working on your finances, updating your family's website or conducting your home or online business. Suddenly, strange errors start appearing, your computer makes loud scratching sounds and then, nothing. ... And finally, if you do face the loss of a hard drive, there are data recovery experts. ... This basically means that two hard drives work together as a pair, mirroring the data, each being and exact copy of the other one.

Categorizing & Organizing Electronic Data for Maximum Backup Efficiency by Bud Stoddard
Most companies today, whether large or small, are experiencing data overload.   According to industry studies, many organizations are finding that they have to double their storage capacities every six to 12 months.   With recent regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and others requiring... The data type identifies data by purpose, while data access identifies data by usage and rate of change. ... Data type involves categorizing the data by Operating System, Operating System (OS) Data, Applications and User Data.

Compact Flash Memory and Data Recovery by Bharat Bista
Flash memory gets its name due to its microchip arrangement in such a way, that its section of memory cells gets erased in a single action or "Flash". Both NOR and NAND Flash memory were invented by Dr. Fujio Masuoka from Toshiba in 1984.The name 'Flash' was suggested because the erasure... Flash memory data recovery is a flash memory file recovery service that restores all corrupted and deleted photographs even if a memory card was re-formatted. ... Flash Memory Data Recovery is the process of restoring data from primary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally.

Document and Data Management Considerations for Private Companies by Michael Siersema
Increasingly, the need for a written, highly structured document and data management policy is becoming vital to any private company. While the recently enacted Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) rules promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission require such a written policy for public companies,... Companies should develop disaster recovery plans and test the recovery of all important data and information. ... Certain state laws, such as the California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003, require website disclosure of privacy policies in regard to personally identifiable information (such...

What is Computer Forensics? by Jason Perry
It is the end of the day and it has been discovered that several critical files are missing from your file server. That alone is normally is enough to freak out most server administrators, but this specific incident also happened to be on the exact same day a particular employee was 'terminated'. ... Meta Data This information typically is associated with the details of a file or document. ... Computer forensics, sometimes known as "Digital Forensics" or "Electronic Evidence Discovery", is often described as "the preservation, recovery and analysis of information stored on computers or...

Offsite Backup – Be Very Careful Who You Deal With! by Lee Morrell
The concept of offsite data backup is not new; some time ago it was only available to corporate institutions that had multiple locations, high connectivity speeds and very high budgets. Today the cost of hardware and high speed connectivity has greatly reduced, as a result the number of... There is no point just moving your most important asset to another location, make sure it is totally safe, data should only be backed up to a class 1 data centre with the highest security and safety measures in place, hardware should be clustered so there is no single point of failure within that data...

Data Backup and Storage Compliance, How Do Smaller Companies Achieve This? by Lee Morrell
Companies must account and deal for new legislation governing how information is stored on IT systems. The EU is shortly to adopt many of the recommendations on corporate governance set out by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US, UK firms are to be expected to deal with and manage explicit... Regulations regarding data storage at the moment are fairly lax, but there will be a huge increase in the amount of data than must be held over the next 18 months to two years. ... Back-up and recovery was also very important to the data protection strategy of 93% of organisations.

History Of The Computer - Redundancy Part 1 Of 2 by Tony Stockill
We have mentioned previously, in history of the computer, that mainframes are large scale devices. We have also mentioned various forms of error correction. We will be looking at that subject in more detail in another episode. (If you are looking for information on what to do when the boss fires... If this doesn't work, our alternative could be a duplication of all data on the disk on another drive, so that data is written to and read from both devices in parallel. ... As well as the data, it needs to have addressing capability, to select a drive, and some way of allocating the correct...

Data Backup - Do You Have A Data Backup And Recovery Plan In Place? by Lee Morrell
Data backup is rarely a part of a home computer user’s or business IT administrator’s plans, we all say it will never happen to me or my company, but in reality we are just mentally preparing for the time we lose our data. Its like trying to stop smoking, we all know we should do it but will... Once you have backed your data to CD please always verify that the data is actually on the CD and then take it home with you. ... Save yourself money; prevent data loss in the first place by implementing a data backup plan.

Antivirus Information & Software Reviews by Dennis Doyle
The best way to prevent viruses is to purchase anti-virus software. Most anti-virus software today scans to look for spyware, and adware. So there is no need to purchase three separate tools. But having an anti-virus application is not enough, you need to ensure that it is kept up to date with... They can erase entire hard drives making it virtually impossible to ever recover the data -- even if the drive were sent to data recovery experts! ... They destroy whatever they come in contact to and will initiate self replication and infect as many components of the computer's operating system...