Data Loss - The 7 Most Common Symptoms of a Failed Hard Drive by Jason Perry
If your hard drive is clicking or making grinding noises, you are experiencing system blue screens or system freezes, an error message greets you with ‘drive not formatted’ or ‘operating system not found’, or lastly you are in a never ending loop of computer reboots…there is a very good chance... ADR Data Recovery is available to evaluate the damage and potentially recover your lost data. ... It can be caused by a virus, a hard re-boot, a power outage or surge, disc partitioning utilities and sometimes updating software, anti-virus programs or simply installing new software can damage a...

Electronic Data Discovery by Marcus Peterson
In the electronic age, huge amounts of data are being generated and stored electronically. Everyday, millions of electronic data pages are being created, transferred and stored in multiple locations. Most of this data is very valuable and critical, especially for businesses. ... The process of electronic data discovery involves some stages: generation of the inventory list; generation of the list of required data that is to be discovered; creation of validation tools and checklists; data retrieval using special software tools; and validation of the data.

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,...

Thieves Want Your Laptop and Your Data by John Beagle
Thieves find laptops easy prey because they are small, light and easy to handle. Anyone who takes their eye off a laptop in public, even briefly, may never see it again. While special theft protection devices are offered for mobile computers, experienced thieves often view this as little more... This includes encrypting data on the hard drive or by only accessing company data via Terminal Services or Citrix remote desktop operating systems," Cipollone says. ... The latest theft protection devices for laptops are now offered as PC expansion cards, containing a motion sensor and encryption...

How to Back-Up Your Computer Files by Natalie Aranda
Its amusing how pc users the world over are mortified of losing data by a virus attack but don't care much about backing up files. Though the intention is the same – to save data, people are concerned more about virus attacks rather than having back up program. ... Therefore, the best long term back up option is to store data in zip drive or tape drive. ... The next methods are to save your data in to a floppy or a CD. ... So if data stored in a drive is lost, Windows back up fetches it back from another drive where its stored as back up.

Electronic Discovery Services by Marcus Peterson
Electronic discovery is the process of locating and retrieving electronic data. These days, every company is storing its important information in the electronic format, in devices like CD ROMs, DVDs, hard disks, floppy disks, and others. Data is also being sent across the world in electronic... Electronic discovery involves the use of certain software tools and technologies for data recovery. ... Electronic discovery enables the retrieval of such electronic data from the vast amounts of data available.

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...

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.

What Is Clean Room Recovery by James Walsh
The objective of a clean room is to create air that is as pure and uncontaminated as possible by constantly removing pollutants that may occur naturally or be generated by humans, machinery, equipment and processes. Apart from the contaminants, factors like humidity, temperature and pressure may... Clean Room Recovery The term “clean room recovery” is used in the computer industry to mean repair of hard-disk drives or other data storage media as well as recovery of recorded data that can no longer be accessed for some reason.

Backup and Recovery for Smaller Organisations--How to Build an Effective Data Backup Strategy by Lee Morrell
There are many factors which will potentially determine your best data backup strategy. Regardless of your companies size the thought process should be the same. The main factors to take into account are the amount of data being backed up, how quickly you need to backup and more importantly, how... When you have answered the above, you are in a position to prepare a data backup and data recovery assessment which will addresses the following details: 1) What data needs protection? ... Your initial costs include hardware, software and, the backup media itself, don’t expect much change from...