Protecting Data in Today’s Fast-Paced & Uncertain Environment by Bud Stoddard
Protecting Data in Today’s Fast-Paced & Uncertain Environment Online server data backup and recovery takes hold   By Bud Stoddard, President & CEO, AmeriVault Corp.   Data, Foundation of Today’s Business   Data is not only the foundation of businesses in all...   To further data integrity, reliability and recovery, the massive amounts of data online are backed up to tape on a daily basis, and shipped to an underground vault for safekeeping. ...   Faced with increasingly narrow recovery windows and "zero tolerance" for disruption they will have no choice...

Remote Backup as Part of a Disaster Recovery Strategy by Mike Colesante
New technologies and recent storm reports have forced many companies to review disaster recovery plans and data protection policies. Hurricanes striking the Gulf Coast and Eastern seashore have a significant impact on the businesses operating in their path. ... Recovery Time Objective (RTO) - The time objective to bring the system back on line following a failure Recovery Point Objective (RPO) - The acceptable amount of data loss from the last good backup prior to the point of failure Identify potential data loss events that can happen to your business.

Let Your Hard Drive Cool by Vitali Priadkine
No matter what we do with our computer, storage is an important part of our system. Nowadays, we have been holding more and more information on our PC. Most computer users no longer keep their documents, letters, music, photos, pictures, etc. in hard copies, but store them on different data... There are data loss situations when even the most advanced data recovery companies can’t guarantee that you will receive you data back. ... However, if you were to learn about the cost of the hard drive data recovery, you would rather prevent it, especially, from the most common reason of hard drive...

Natural Disaster Causes 3% of Data Loss by Park Oskar
Natural Disasters is the least likely cause of data loss however they can kill an entire company. The eruption of natural disasters and the complete equipment failure are rare but they do occur. Although it accounts for around 3% of all data loss but the magnitude of data loss is highest. ... There are many data recovery software & services companies, which provide data recovery from fire damages. ... • Do not store your mission critical data in a flood plain. ... Fire Damage: When the fire catches your computer, it may damage the plastic encasings and components of the computer but the...

How To Create Backups by Nehaa Gupta
Backing up data has become golden rule in the computer world. You need to backup data once in a day to avoid panics at the time of data loss. Data backups, hard drive backups, email backups prove beneficial when you lose some important data. In such case you can trust the backed up data! ... How to create backup of your data: You might have heard many people saying about backing up data but might not know how to create backups of your data. ... Backup of the files and folders on your computer system or on network has been created and now your data is safe and saves you from facing data...

Excel Password Types by Nehaa Gupta
Have you ever wondered that there can be types of passwords just like types of files? Is it possible? Yes it is. MS Excel is equipped with five types of password locking with which you can protect your worksheets. This means you can secure your MS Excel worksheet with 5 different password... But if in case the MS Excel file gets corrupt, you can try the FREE demo version of Kernel Recovery for Excel , a corrupt excel file recovery software which easily recovers and repairs the damaged worksheets and extracts cell data, formulas, charts, images, hyperlinks etc.

The Art of Failure Planning by Glen Kendell
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. -Francis Bacon A Tale of Two Plans There is a lot of talk these days about disaster recovery planning. Organizations of all sizes are investing big money developing "The Plan" that will help... For instance, we use backup software from Ultrabac that makes a daily image of our servers. ... It’s a manual process to restore a server and data since the last backup will be lost. ... The Art of Failure Planning If you are a big organization, you have to face the reality that a true disaster...

Trouble-shooting Hard Drive Problems - Part 2 by Sarah Lake
A common problem with hard drives is the error message "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM." Typically what this means is that critical data is missing or damaged in two possible locations. The first is the Master Boot Record (MBR). This data area contains error messages and pointer information that... The normal response to this error message is to boot to a floppy disk and to re-partition the drive (probably using FDISK) and thereby totally removing any possibility for recovery of the data on that drive, except by dedicated data recovery software or a data recovery facility.

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.

Got Data? by Grace Judson
Each of the stories that follow is absolutely factual. When their clothes dryer blew up, the young couple escaped with her cell phone, their toddler son, and one shoe. The house was incinerated in fifteen minutes. She was supporting the family with her home-based business while her husband... Even for those who are technically proficient, creating a personal backup and disaster recovery plan ranks only slighly higher than cleaning the bathroom; for the many who find technology confusing and scary, cleaning the bathroom starts looking downright fun compared to figuring out a backup plan!