Articles tagged: "data loss"
1: Making Contingency Plans for Disaster Recovery
Disasters, either man-made or natural, are a painful reality of life. There is hardly any location in the world that has not been hit by a disaster one time or another. These arrive unexpectedly and cause massive destruction of life and property all around.
2: That 's Not An Ipod In The Office Anymore - That 's A New Data Security Threat
Cell phones, MP3 players, IPods, Instant Messaging, Hotmail accounts - these are all considered 'personal technologies' Each employee usually has at least one, and many all
3: Remote Data Backup Accomplishes Several Essential Steps
Unlike regular data backup software, Remote Data Backup doesn't send backups to media attached to the computer it is backing up.
4: Dangers of Data Theft
Information is steadily becoming the source of all power, even over money. Most of the information that is of high value to us is stored in the form of digital data at home and at work.
5: Process of Data Evaluation in Data Recovery
With an increasing number of companies and businesses relying on computers for storing their reports, files, and information sheets, protecting computer systems is no longer enough to ensure better success.
6: Importance of Proper Evaluation Before Data Recovery
Whenever faced with probable loss of important information contained in the hard disks, all computer users approach a data recovery specialist. No one takes chances by self-attempting recovery work. Retrieval of lost data is not only important but also it has to be recovered fast.
7: Data Loss from Optical Disks (CDs, DVDs)
It is common for people to store their valuable data on CDs and DVDs. However, when these disks are damaged the data can often still be retrieved.
8: Top Causes of Catastrophic Data Loss
Just a few decades back it would have seemed like a bizarre and fictional idea to be able to sit at home and conduct all your business, including communications and funds transfers. However, this is the reality of the world that we live in today.
9: Saving Memories and Protecting Yourself Against Data Loss
A recent trend in society has been saving and storing memories digitally. People no longer document and store old photographs and souvenirs. Instead they digitally store these memories and view them at leisure.
10: Destroying Data Permanently
In an age where most people are spending millions in saving and salvaging their data, there are some who have a tough time destroying their data. Your data may contain very confidential information.
11: DATA RECOVERY SERVICES
The high reliance on computer technology of companies and individuals alike have spawned a different area of concern – that of data recovery. With database failure being fairly common, the computer has proven not to be a fool-proof method of storing information. However, barring such scenarios, it
12: Hard Drive Failure Factors
The major hard drive failure internal issues that can be instrumental in data loss
13: Hidden Cost of Data Loss
The unforeseen loss of digital information / data (due to human negligence / error, acts of nature, failed hardware or deliberate destruction of data) is the commonly understood meaning of the term ‘data loss.’
14: When Backups Fail: Data Recovery from Server Computers
Most large companies are using servers to manage their data these days. A server is a device on a network that helps in managing the resources of the network.
15: Data Loss. What Does it Cost?
The speed with which all sectors of the economy all over the world are adopting information technology is breathtaking. Financial institutions, airlines, banks, hospitals, telecom companies, armed forces, everybody is scrambling to computerise their operations.
16: Uses of External Hard Disks
Every computer has at least one hard disk; it is the data storage unit that holds the programs, operating system, and other user information. Our ever-increasing needs for extra data storage space has brought to the foray the use of external hard drives.
17: Pros and Cons of USB Flash Drives
The USB drive using flash memory has been the most popular digital storage device to have ever hit the market. It has become a fashion statement, won awards for design, affected the pricing of digital goods drastically, and helped thieves to have a better time. We shall be discussing in greater detail below.
18: Taking Care of Your Backup Media
Today data is the primary virtual asset that is driving the world economy. Despite the latest technical innovations and upgradation of existing storage media, data loss continues to be a grim reality that needs to be taken care of by the manufacturers.
19: Clean Rooms
Clean rooms offer a dust-free environment that is necessary to carry out a lot of operations in the different fields of technology and science. Clean rooms have been used from the times of the Second World War. During those days, there were the clean rooms to carry out research in the field of medicine.
20: The Wonder that is a Desktop PC
The intellectual species that we humans are, we have always found ways to outsource our thinking process to machines such as robots and computers. Starting out as huge mechanical engines that did calculations laboriously, the computers have now come a long way to become an integral part of our lives. Today, a life without computers and digital devices is hard to imagine.
21: Problems of DIY Software
We have all had the experience of data loss at some point of our lives. This does not only mean deleting files from the computer by mistake, but also losing our mobile phone address book, deleting photographs from our digital camera, or losing music from an iPod.
22: Mobile Phone SIM Card Data Recovery
Technological advancements have increased our dependencies on electronic gadgets. It would be hard to imagine our lives without our mobile phones. Our mobile phones have become an integral part of our lives and if something were to happen to our mobile phone, our life would instantly feel crippled.
23: Portable Hard Disks
Data storage devices have come a long way since their inception. In the 1980s, storing gigabytes of information almost seemed like a Herculean task because the data storage devices were sized the shape of a refrigerator similar to the IBM 3380 model.
24: DVD Data Recovery
Today 's fast-paced and technological world is heavily dependent on data. Storing this data is of prime importance. Its loss has the potential to cripple human beings at the macro and micro level. This is where the concept of data recovery comes in. Data recovery is the recovery of data, which was originally inaccessible to us.
25: What If You No Longer Existed? (Part 1)
This is not a new age riddle or philosophical question; it is a real problem that millions of people face more frequently that most people realize It might happen because of a lightning strike or a power spike
26: Disaster Recovery Planning
The terms disaster recovery and disaster recovery planning are relatively new in the field of data loss and recovery. Disastrous loss of data happens when an uncontrolled circumstance affects the data device physically. In other words, everything from floods to bombings comes within disastrous data loss.
27: Choosing DIY Recovery Software
Using DIY data recovery software is like riding a horse. If the animal is not friendly or if you do not know what you are doing, the consequences may sometimes prove to be fatal. Hence, it is vital to be cautious and choosy while shopping for DIY data recovery software.
28: Partition Deleted - Can I Get My Data Back?
Partitions are created in a hard drive for various reasons, the most important of them being, perhaps, more efficient organization of the disk space.
29: USB Drives – The New Winners?
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.
30: Should You Backup Data Yourself or Hire A Company to Do So?
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?
31: Vacation Backup
The best part of living in the 21st century is having technology make life easier, efficient and without boundaries. You can be on a scenic beach in Barbados and still remain clued in and make sure you don’t have too much of a back log when you get back to work. Thanks to the convenience of laptops, you can re-live the perfect moments of your dreamy holiday thanks to the amazing quality of digital cameras that capture moments forever.
32: Why a Hard Disk Lets You Down
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.
33: Impact of Severe Data Loss on Companies
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.
34: Lost Your Data?
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.
35: State of the Data Recovery Globally
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.
36: Infrastructure Decimated by Earthquake in Kobe, Japan on January 17, 1995
On January 17th, 1995 a massive earthquake hit the region of Kobe, Japan. This quake was unique in that it occurred at the intersection of three tectonic plates. This resulted in enormous damage to the area. Buildings collapsed, roads were destroyed, and utilities went offline for days.An earth
37: Hard Drive Data Recovery
Computers always malfunction at the worst times, a great deal of money, stress and time being spent looking for a remedy. Briefly discussed here is a look at data recovery of hard drives, an example of a program that can perform this function being stated later.General IntroductionEveryone who
