Data Recovery Tips by Michael Russell
The worst thing about any emergency is that it messes up our daily routine and throws us into a state of confusion and we really can never rule out emergencies from our lives, life is full of surprises; some good, some bad. What makes the difference is how readily prepared we are for such... When dealing with data recovery and protection it is vital you remain calm and assess whether you are dealing with a hard drive or other issue. ... Data recovery or Disc Recovery services are things we hope we will ever have the need for.

Data Security - Having Piece of Mind by Bart Samuri
Data security is a very important part of a successful computer involved business. It is essential to keep vital data secured in order to have piece of mind. Backing up data and having dedicated computers running just to store data are great ways to maintain data security. ... How a hard drive works is a complicated process, but if you know that when you delete data off a hard drive, it doesn’t disappear, its still there, but it is ready to be written over. ... Mind you, this process is not easy, and a regular computer chump probably couldn’t do it, this is why data recovery is often left...

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - A Business Not a Technology Issue by Robert Mahood
Hackers, hurricanes, fires, flooding, power outages, denial of service attacks, application failures, employee error, sabotage and now terrorism are helping companies to focus on the necessity of a business continuity plan. Through the late 1990s as companies prepared for Y2K, many IT... Business continuity planning sounds expensive and it can be time-consuming. ... This is also the time to determine resource requirements and acceptable recovery time frames. ... Various recovery strategies should be evaluated to achieve your cost, reliability and time to recover objectives.

Network Attached Storage – An Alternative To Tape Back-up by Mark Allen
Businesses have been using tape to back up their data since the early days of computing. Tape has its limitations, but it was much cheaper than the alternatives, so its use continued. Today, the situation is changing. The price of disk storage has come down dramatically and the performance,... In the event of a disaster, the backup system is immediately ready to step in for rapid recovery and business continuity. ... As a result, many businesses are looking to move away from tape for their backup and disaster recovery needs.

Five Steps to Assuring Successful Recovery of Data by Jason Perry
According to the National Archives & Records Administration in Washington, D.C., 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 or more days due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year. Whether your business data is in the form of a customer electronic database, office documents... If you do the wrong thing, it completely wipes it out and reduces any chance of recovering data. ... The reason this information gathering step is so important is that many employees or IT professionals fear they'll get reprimanded or lose their jobs if it is discovered that human error caused...

IT Audits: A Checklist by Joshua Feinberg
IT audits need to be as comprehensive as possible. To ensure you hit every area you need to during your IT audits, review this checklist. • IT Audits - Physical Security: To ensure that appropriate physical controls are in place to secure technology assets (servers, networking and... • IT Audits - Data Backup and Disaster Recovery Procedures: To ensure that data backups are being made and tested on a scheduled basis, sufficient to recover in the event of a systems failure, data loss, or other disaster.

Recover Data From Crashed Novell NSS Volume - Novell Netware Data Recovery by Rupesh Kumar
Brief Overview The Novell Storage Services (NSS) File System is the default file system for NetWare 6 and later. Its many features and capabilities include visibility, a trustee access control model, multiple simultaneous namespace support, native Unicode, user and directory quotas, rich file... Each volume consumes the space it needs as it needs it. ... Kernel for Novell NSS - Novell NSS Data Recovery Software can recover and allows access to the data when the volume(s) cannot be mounted, it recovers and allows you to save your data to another drive after cases of missing volumes,...

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...   In fact, according to the Disaster Recovery Journal, 43% of all companies will go out of business within one year following a disaster. ...       That recovery testing you used to do twice a year has been thrown out the window because there is not enough time or manpower to do it with a reduced...

Network Certification Exam Tutorial: An Introduction To Backup Types by Chris Bryant
Fault tolerance isn't fault invulnerability. No matter how hard we work to avoid single points of failure, sooner or later something catastrophic will happen to a part of our network. Don't get me wrong, I'm no pessimist - quite the opposite! But part of being a world-class network manager is... It's not always feasible to back up all data on every single server every single night. ... Personally, I've visited networks where they had a tape drive right there in the server room, with tapes right next to it, and no system in place.

Advantages of Offsite Back-Up by Lee Morrell
Everyone admits that information is crucial in modern society. If you possess all the necessary information, you can easily set up your business on whichever terrain you choose. Think about all the possible misfortunes that can overwhelm your office: say fire or earthquake for example, or what’s... An online backup service needs no physical shelter, it is on the Internet and it can be accessible whenever you like. ... It is a problem, though, that can be easily solved with the proper usage of online systems for backing up and storing computer tapes.