The infamous Melissa virus, named after a topless dancer in Florida, crashed the email servers of businesses and governments round the world. The virus, which attached itself to Microsoft Word, struck 100,000 computers in its first weekend.

Are USB drives the new winners of the day? The race for a smarter, cheaper, and more handy portable data storage device has been on for years now. Be it the laptop or the humble CD – all portable digital devices aim at this. The USB drive is a particularly interesting case to study due to its exceptionally fast rise to popularity.

Once a person decides to backup his data, many issues arise such as the backup medium to be used, the software to be used, whether to hire a company or manage the backup oneself, if a company then which one etc. The choice thus, can be quite confusing. Here are a few guidelines pertaining to one of those issues viz. whether to hire a company to manage your backup or do it yourself?

Many of us would be surprised to know that a hard drive is expected to have life span of about 40-50 years. This is because these days the average life of a hard drive is reduced to a mere 4-5 years. If you have been wondering why there is such a vast difference between the expected life span and the actual life span, the answer is simple. Most of us ignore to take proper precautionary measure to protect our hard drive from damage. Since, our hard drive is sitting concealed inside the CPU, we neglect about the factors that could possibly affect our hard drive leading to its failure.

Hard disks are a marvel of modern engineering. They are quite reliable but ultimately they are mere machines. And like all machines, they have a limited life span. There are the many things that can go wrong with your precious hard disk, taking you unawares.

In this age of knowledge economy where competition has increased to cutthroat levels in every field and there is a mad rush to bring out new products faster than the competitors and take them to the market before everyone else, information technology has come to play a critical role. There is hardly any company today that does not use computers and digital devices to gain an edge over others.

This is the age of information technology. Digital products that leverage the power of a processor and software are everywhere. Digital cameras, computers, notebooks, palmtops, mobile phones and email have revolutionised modern lifestyle. It is impossible today to imagine a life without them.

The Data Recovery Industry is somewhat young. It is yet to be as organised as the storage and backups industry, has fewer comprehensive newsletters, and lesser data floated publicly on it. This leaves us with some firms in hand, all of whom claim to be the largest in some way or the other.

Today, we live in a world whose every aspect is increasingly getting digital and computerised. Information technology touches almost every part of our lives – there is no escape from it. Be it leisure or work, one cannot avoid using computers and digital devices in some way.

All over the world, Data Security is a mounting problem. The Middle East is no exception. Though we have developed advanced technologies to ensure secured data transmission and storage, no one can stay relaxed that those data are completely harmless.