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  • How Important is Disaster Recovery Planning?  By : James Walsh
    One of the major impediments to continued business existence is the occurrence of a disaster. Every business enterprise is, therefore, expected to be ready with a 'disaster recovery plan' (which is also known as business contingency plan).
  • How to Take Care of Your Data CDs  By : James Walsh
    Data storage continues to gain in importance as technology progresses. This is an obvious corollary to the fact that we are utilising ever increasing quantities of digital data. With this increased dependence on digital media we also require adequate storage.
  • How to Recover Deleted Files  By : James Walsh
    For thousands of years, mankind has known only one way to register information – by putting an impression on some object. Initially, we used to scribble on cave walls with a piece of chalk. Then dry animal skins began to be used for the purpose.
  • Data Recovery from DVDs  By : James Walsh
    DIY data recovery from damaged DVDs is certainly possible. However, before you attempt data retrieval, clean your DVD thoroughly, with soap and water. After it has been washed, wipe it with a cloth, straight down from the centre.
  • Recover Lost Data from CD and DVD Media  By : Paul Goldenberg
    Access the inaccessible. Read the unreadable. Retrieve the lost data from non-standard or damaged CD and DVD disks.
  • The Effect of Data Loss on Financial Institutions  By : James Walsh
    When financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and brokerages lose their data, they suffer, and so do their customers. A single data loss disaster is enough to brand them for life and shake the trust of their customers.
  • Data Recovery – The Question of Cost  By : James Walsh
    Most of us still quake at the thought of entrusting our data recovery jobs to a data recovery firm. The main reason for that continues to be the same as it was in the late ‘80’s – cost.
  • Portable Hard Disks – the Ultimate Solution to All Your Data Backup Woes?  By : James Walsh
    Data backup can often be the difference between an ongoing business and bankruptcy. Having effective backup procedure in place also means having to deal with issues relating to storage. A useful backup option not only lets you have enough storage option to carry on your usual business but also allows you to store the backup data in the least burdensome manner.
  • Data Loss - Prevention Is Better Than Cure  By : James Walsh
    It's a whole New World, the world of information technology. There are no boundaries, there is no apparent limit and innovation happens at the speed of light. For all its super human features, the IT world is fallible and when there are failures the consequences can be disastrous. Since so much, rides on data of all kinds, data loss is akin to the kind of destruction that a tsunami can cause.
  • Four Common Myths About Backup Software  By : Alexey V. Spiridonov
    Regular backup of data stored on computer is a good idea, because no computer is perfect. At the same time, not all of us take measures to protect it. But why reliable backup strategies are not as much widespread as data crash accidents? This article features some possible reasons of ignoring backup software and destroys some myth about backup preventing people from using it.
  • Avoiding the Expense of Data Recovery: Protecting Hard Disk Drive against Electrostatic Shock  By : James Walsh
    Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) is often termed as the ‘static electricity’. It is nothing but the shock we receive subsequent to walking across a carpet. If anyone has ever walked across the carpet and sensed a shock, they would feel the consequences of the static electricity. Though everyone could feel it, most of them do not know the way it works. They even never know that it may damage the computer components.
  • All My Data has Disappeared!  By : James Walsh
    The advance of information technology has rendered each one of us virtually helpless. We are at the mercy of our digital media devices which store our important documentation. What happens when a natural calamity such as a fire occurs at your house and destroys all your digital media equipment i.e. all hard drives, flash cards, floppies and memory sticks? The destruction also manages to wipe out your important stored information on your digital media devices. You lose everything – account information, important stock numbers, and irreplaceable photograph? What do you do?

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