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...

Kick-Ass Performance For Your PC? It's Easy by John Deprice
Is your PC is slow and wimpy? Then you need some PC steroids - software applications that will cleanse the registry, optimize RAM and make that puppy fly. Here is what you should start with. Ace Utilities Ace Utilities is a set of system-maintenance and optimization utilities for enhancing... 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.

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...

Bare Metal Hard Drive Recovery - What's Best- Ghost, True Image, Image for Windows? by Don Watkins
Complete disaster recovery (restore from "bare metal"; formatting and restoring) has been a thorn since Windows XP. In fact it's been downright weird which reminds me of:When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. hompson It's fair to say that a Hunter S. ... The option for boot disk is only necessary if you keep a drive image on another drive; if you create your drive image on CD-ROM you need only boot that CD-ROM to restore it. ... So the Ghost recovery disk goes in the CD-ROM drive and I boot.

Insure Your Information by Joe Light
There are so many ways to lose precious data stored on your hard disk - power loss or power surge, overheating, electrostatic discharge, virus attack, software failure, etc. Are you still thinking your data is safe? Don't! Backup! Backup early, backup frequently. ... WinBackup 2.0 Standard, the fastest backup and recovery software on the market, allows you to secure all your valuable data within minutes. ... The disk backup file contains the exact copy of a hard disk, including all the computer data, operating system, and programs.

Offsite Backups by James Walsh
The moment it happens, the primary concern for the user is to get the data back so that the work continues uninterrupted. Sensing this need, a multi-million-dollar data-recovery industry has cropped up that specialises in recovering lost data from a damaged storage device. ... The integrity of the backup data is guaranteed, since the server double-checks the data sent by the client software. ... This software remains hidden on the hard disk and does not interfere with any other programme. ... Their capacities are not good enough when a huge amount of data has to be backed up as a matter of...

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,...

What Is Optical Disk? by Park Oskar
OPTICAL DISK Optical disk is an electronic data storage medium from which data is read and written to by using a low-powered laser beam. It is flat, circular, plastic or glass disk on which data is stored in the form of light and dark pits. The laser beam reads the pits and the data can be... DVD can store that much of data because both the sides of a disc are used, with sophisticated data compression technologies. ... A CD-RW can hold 650 Megabytes of data (unlimited number of times) written by a CD-RW drive.

Data Storage Media – A Guide to Selecting Media For Storing and Backing Up Computer Data by David Haysom
Data, or information stored on your computer, can either be held on fixed disk drives inside the computer or on removable media such as CD's that can be inserted and removed. Removable media can be used to transfer files between computers or to backup the data already existing on fixed disk drives. ... In many cases viruses carried by a Flash Drive will not be detected as most antivirus software is reactive and only recognizes known viruses Theft - a Flash Drive can make it easier for data to be stolen from an unlocked PC Little Security - the size and weight of the Flash drive...

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.