1. Top 10 disaster recovery tips
This week Stephen Owen, EMEA product manager at Adaptec, runs through the basic steps for ensuring that IT disaster doesn’t entail doom for your business.Disaster recovery is one of those things that can make or break a company.
The majority of firms that suffer a disaster without a recovery plan go out of business within two years, according to research. But even the simplest check list can give you a much better chance of a happy outcome.
2. Top 10 Hard Drive Recovery Services
If your hard drive makes noises, is unable to read data or you need to recover your valuable data,shut down the computer, remove the hard drive, and call any of these data recovery services.
3. Top 10 data loss disasters of 2008
Data recovery firm Kroll Ontrack has announced its fifth annual data disaster league, featuring the top 10 worst data mishaps from 2008.
A video of the top five data disasters has also been produced by the firm.
The annual global list consists of real data loss situations compiled by engineers from the firm’s 32 offices worldwide, who have helped users to recover data.
“No matter how stringently you protect your data with encryption and back-ups, there’s little you can do when your laptop goes for a swim,” said Phil Bridge, managing director of Kroll Ontrack UK.
“Previous list-topping incidents include ant and cockroach invasions, a dirty sock encasing a hard drive, and the weight of an aeroplane driving over a laptop.”
4. Top 10 things you must read about Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity and VMware
Disaster recovery can often be painful and difficult to setup but is usually a necessity in large corporate environments. Implementing a proper DR strategy can always be challenging but fortunately virtual servers can simplify your DR implementation. Often some companies use a few virtual servers as a lower cost alternative to many physical servers at their DR sites. There are many different methods and approaches to implementing DR in virtual environments and based on your requirements you may use either one or a combination of these methods. There are also many vendors that offer products to help you replicate data between your main and DR sites. This top 10 list covers the many types of implementation stategies that can be used with DR as well as some of the 3rd party products that can help you with this. It mostly consists of VMworld presentations where an entire track is devoted to disaster recovery and business continuity.
5. Top 10 most unusual data recovery jobs this year
Kroll Ontrack is a company specializing in recovering our all important data from hard drives that have suffered some form of accident. Some of the accidents come under the heading of “Bizarre,” and the company has been kind enough to release a list of its top 10 most unusual recoveries.
6. Data-recovery firm reveals top client mishaps
Ant infestations, oil saturation and failed parachute jumps are some of the unusual fates which have befallen innocent data-storage devices recently, according to data-recovery company Kroll Ontrack’s list of the most unusual recovery jobs it has faced in the last year.
7. Top 10 Reasons for Using Disk-based Online Server Backup and Recovery
Data protection solutions that combine the latest advancements in disk-based backup with secure, integrated online technologies offer small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) fast and assured data protection.
8. Top 10 FREE Data Recovery Software
Recently there is a discussion in forum about data recovery. I am quite surprised to know that many people don’t think that data recovery software works. In my experience, it does work and it saved my @$! many times after accidentally deleting important files or after formatting a hard drive and forgot to backup some files. There was only once, I wrongly formatted my external hard drive and somehow I wasn’t able to get back all my files. I have 7 external hard drives, all same casing and no label. I guess the reason I wasn’t able to get back my files is because I might have copied some files to the hard drive.
9. Top 10 Data Recovery Bloopers
1. People Are the Problem, Not Technology
Disk drives today are typically reliable – human beings aren’t. A recent study found that approximately 15 percent of all unplanned downtime occurs because of human error.
10. Top 10 Free Computer System Recovery Tools
Your data’s trapped on a dead computer. You lost your login password. You never wrote down the product key on a non-working Windows installation. Your Mac won’t start.
11. Top 10 data backup news stories and tips
The top 10 data backup news stories of the year are listed below along with related expert advice. Some of the backup topics that we’ve been following this year include data deduplication, backup as a service, remote backup, tape transport and bare-metal restore.