How To Speed Up Your Aging PC And Make It Healthier Too by John Deprice
With a little tweaking and with proper tools, you can get a faster, healthier PC, virtually immune to spyware infections and browser hijackers. How is this possible? Find out about the latest tools and how they work. System LifeGuard 2 This simple to use product is designed to be used... With a heavy-duty arsenal of optimization tools, such as RAM recovery, CPU optimization, startup management, and automatic crash recovery, SpeedUpMyPC is THE must-have utility for both beginner and power users.

Backup-Backup-Backup by Michael Kaye
Why Do I Need To Backup My Computer? The question is this. If your computer happened to up and die one day and you lost all the information on it, would this affect your mood that day? If your answer was no then you would be one of the few that doesn’t need to Backup their computer. ... There are also companies that specialize in Data recovery and can recover Data even from water and fire damaged Hard Drives. ... This type of recovery must be done as soon as possible to the initial erasing of the Data before new files have the chance to overwrite the erased files.

Three Great Places for Free Software by Douglas Hanna
There's a lot of software out there that you can download free – either completely free or to try for 30 days free before buying. Three great sites There are three great places where you can find freeware and shareware. The first of these is www.zdnet.com. ... This section has literally hundreds of downloadable utility programs, including programs for data recovery, fixing your registry file, undeleting files, managing files, and increasing computer performance. ... Or click on iPod and you'll find program such as Text to iPod Notes , SharePod and memoPod .

Know What You're Dealing With: Essential Information You Must Know Before Paying for Data Recovery by Alex Bezborodov
Know what you’re dealing with The world of data recovery is a big mystery for most consumers and even some IT professionals. This is largely because hard drives themselves are complex devices and their technological specifics are not generally well known. ... I provide some basic information about data recovery by shedding some light on how hard drives work, how they can fail, what are the chances of successful recovery and how much the user can expect to pay. ... But if you’ve lost data, attempt to understand the problem before calling a data recovery company.

What are the Facts about Data Loss? by Lee Morrell
I have been in the data recovery business for many years and have read and heard many “facts” covering the causes, costs and trends of data loss recovery. I have also heard of all the best ways to backup data ensuring total loss of data never happens. ... 30 percent of companies report that they still do not have a disaster recovery program in place and two in three companies feel their data backup and disaster recovery plans have significant vulnerabilities. ... I don’t know, and I feel most business owners would not know either until data loss actually happened, but please bear with me,...

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...   The only viable insurance program for data is to have a fail-safe backup and recovery plan in place. ...   You may argue, we have a special data processing rider on our insurance plan that covers data loss and destruction.

Consequences Of Data Loss And Why Should Offsite Backup Be Used by Lee Morrell
There is a calculated trend in all business corporations and firms: when the enterprise is getting bigger, its support of data increases its complexity, volume and value. The larger your enterprise is, the more significant your data files become. The traditional tape backup can no longer produce... Over 25% of data loss is a result of computer program errors, software viruses and natural disasters (factors completely out of your control). ... Some data that contains pieces of valuable information will be forever lost in the digital space, with no hope of getting it back.

The Seven Deadly Habits of a DBA and How to Cure Them by Paul Vallee
Calling widespread bad habits in database administration "deadly" may seem extreme. However, when you consider the critical nature of most data, and just how damaging data loss or corruption can be to a corporation, "deadly" seems pretty dead-on. Although these habits are distressingly common... An early sign that your DBA team is either overworked or not prioritizing correctly is having a quarter go by without a test recovery. ... Test recoveries confirm that your backup strategy is on track, while allowing your team to practice recovery activities so they can handle them...

Computer Forensics by Alison Cole
Computer forensics is the process of investigating computer systems by collecting and analyzing computer-related evidence and data to determine their illegal or unauthorized involvement in crimes or frauds. This relatively new field is used by law enforcement, military, intelligence agencies,... Not merely confined to computer data recovery alone, computer forensics is a fast-growing investigative technique used by a forensic specialist for retrieving data that has been electronically stored or encrypted on digital media such as a personal or work computer.

Computer Forensics - Finding Out What The Bad Guys Did With Their Computers! by Abbie Frank
Computer forensics is a lot like the CSI investigation programs on the television. Using advanced techniques and technologies, a computer forensic scientist will reconstruct a possible crime using the data that one computer systems. This data may include email trails, files, hidden directories... It's up to the data recovery skills of the forensic computer personnel to capture and restore that data without modification. ... Although it's possible to clean and remove data from a hard drive, most people simply think that a delete key really removed the data.