Getting Over Data Loss Hurdles in Beijing
9 July 2008
Are you, your colleagues, friends or family members heading to Beijing (formerly known as Peking) next month for the Olympic Games and taking your laptop and digital camera?
If you cannot access the data or photographs on your notebook or memory card of your camera, the devices can be taken to...
Don't be fooled. Deleting files doesn't remove them.
1 April 2008
The revelation in 2007 that a laptop computer which contained personal information regarding members of the Canadian Alliance party, the predecessor to the Conservative Party, was purchased on eBay is yet another important reminder that sometimes data needs to be destroyed, not simply deleted, especially when computers change hands.
As...
Data Loss is No Joke
25 March 2008
Data loss is no joke. While best practices can prevent the loss of data, many individuals fail to backup their data.
Consider these individuals. If computers had been around in their day, could you imagine the predicaments that they would have been in?
- George Washington to Martha: I cannot...
5 Steps to Rapid Recovery When Your 5x9 RAID Fails
6 March 2008
RAIDs. Whether you call it a Redundant Array of Independent or Inexpensive Disks, one thing is for certain. Your organization is very dependent on your RAID and the data that is stored on its hard drives.
While hardware vendors or VARs sell customers on a RAID’s fault tolerance...
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