Disaster Recovery Made Easy With Online Backups by Harald Anderson
Whenever disaster strikes the most critical asset that every company should have protected from sudden loss due to fire, flooding, or theft is their data. No matter what happens to your hardware you can be sure to be able to be up and running no matter how sudden or how severe your damage or... Online data back up is the most cost effective way for you to protect your investment by securely storing your data with an offsite data backup provider. ... There is nothing to remember when using a remote secure backup, you can just “set it and forget it” and be comfortable in knowing that your...

Is Your Data Encryption Really Secure by Darren Miller
There are various types and methods of data encryption. Some of the most popular forms of data encryption include single file encryption, folder encryption, volume encryption, whole disk encryption, and of course email encryption. The Windows XP operating system has the ability to perform file... The data encryption used by Windows XP is relatively secure, but the issue is that the majority of the data that is now encrypted in the folder did not start out that way. ... First, What Is Data Encryption -------------------------------------------------- Throughout ancient and modern history...

You Don't Need To Pay For IT! by Lee A. Smith
IT Support has never been such a minefield. With new technologies always entering the marketplace it is now possible to have a corporate-standard IT system without having the financial headache of purchasing a server or even software such as Microsoft Office. ... As access to your data is mobile, you do not have to worry about synchronising data and carrying data on USB flash drives etc, this all saves you time and ultimately money and the freedom and mobility you will gain from such a system will only benefit your company and it’s staff, allowing for home-working and emergency access 24...

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. ... I don’t know, and I feel most business owners would not know either until data loss actually happened, but please bear with me, more “at what point does data loss threaten survival of my business facts” follow: - 40% of companies in the Cost of Downtime Survey said 72 hours, 21% said 48 hours, 15% said 24 hours, 8% said 8 hours,...

58% Of Businesses Expect An IT Security Breach in the Next 12 Months by Lee Smith
A recent government survey of over 500 small businesses covering London and Surrey regions revealed that 58% of company owners expect a security breach in their IT system in the next year. 24% of those surveyed had already been subjected to a security breach and this is worrying as there are... Forget paying vast sums of money for servers, Microsoft Office licenses, expensive PCs or notebooks, as IT systems can now be supported and maintained in-house in highly-secure data centres with Tier 1 broadband connections.

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. ... Thanks to today’s available technology, software supporting any-to-any connectivity, not only delivers lightning-fast...

What is Electronic Evidence Discovery? by Jason Perry
Electronic Discovery (or E-Discovery) refers to any process in which electronic data is sought, located, secured, and searched with the intent of using it as evidence in a civil or criminal legal case. Electronic Discovery can be carried out offline on a particular computer or it can be done... Once a data audit has been completed and a computer forensics or data recovery service implemented, then there are the tasks to process the electronic evidence and produce the electronic evidence in a format which the client and lawyers will accept, such as TIFFs or PDFs.

One Method of Data Recovery from a Dead Hard Drive by Gary Higbee
Here is the situation. A laptop comes to us with a dead hard drive. Unfortunately, the user needs some files off the dead drive. After much research on the internet and a couple of data recovery quotes we decide to try and recover the information ourselves. ... After waiting another 20 minutes we had a drive image of the bad hard drive and our data was recovered. ... After waiting the 20 minutes or so for the backup to finish we began the surgery. ... First we removed the hard drive from the working system and laid it on a static pad with the circuit board up.

Local Vs Remote Data Backup - The Pros And Cons by Niall Roche
Backing up your data should be an essential part of your daily routine. Unfortunately for many businesses this simply isn't the case. The only time data backup crosses their mind is when they have a hard disk crash or a serious spyware or virus infection. ... That's not to say that bulk data such as archived email is not important but that old data could be recovered in time by a data recovery specialist whereas you mission critical data needs to be available at a moments notice. ... Local Data Backup Most companies rely on either DVD, external hard disk or tape drive data backup...

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...