Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Reducing Your Risk Profile
Like all plans, there is an ultimate goal to achieve.
The goal in a business continuity plan is simply that: to continue your business in the face of a disaster or a disruption.
A business continuity plan is not just for a disaster.
It's also for the smaller things in life, like your friendly neighborhood burglar who decides to borrow all of your computers or the small power interruption, which causes loss of data and downtime or the fire five floors below you, which causes a 5 hour building shutdown.
These are a few of the many things, which do occur every day and do happen to companies like yours.Disaster recovery has traditionally been associated with computing systems and data storage and recovery of data.
Different than business continuity, disaster recovery is focused more on after the fact, quickly and effectively recovering from a disaster or disruption.There are many good sources of information on both business continuity and disaster recovery.
Some of the more authoritative sources are: Disaster Recovery International (www.drii.org),
Disaster Recovery Journal (www.drj.com), and Global Continuity (www.globalcontinuity.com).It's, of course, not realistic to think that you can guard against every risk.
However, through risk analysis, business impact analysis, selecting effective strategies, documenting detailed recovery plans and testing your plans, you can significantly reduce many of your risks, often in a very cost effective way.
You have an important management responsibility to safeguard company assets.
Reducing your risk profile through a well thought out business continuity and disaster recovery plan is an effective way to do so.
Bob MahoodMidwest Data Recovery Inc.www.midwestdatarecovery.com866 786 2595312 907 2100.
Robert Mahood has significant technology and management experience in data communications, internet, storage, disaster recovery and data recovery.He is currently the president of Midwest Data Recovery.
www.midwestdatarecovery.combmahood@midwestdatarecovery.com
Storage Industry Leaders Back Data Domain NDMP File Server Standard - - Data Domain Submits Technology to Industry for Consideration as New Extension to NDMP Standard
Data Domain?, the leader in Capacity Optimized Storage (COS) solutions for disk-based backup and restore, today announced that its proposal to standardize an NDMP file server extension to the NDMP v4 specification has support from storage industry leaders such as Atempo, EMC Corp., and VERITAS Software. Data Domain and other industry leaders will work with the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) working group in refining the standard. This initiative is intended to create a standard for backup applications wishing to use NDMP to drive backups to disk-based targets such as the Data Domain DD200 Restorer. "Data Domain is committed to expanding the capabilities and scope of disk-based backup and recovery," said Hugo Patterson, chief architect at Data Domain. "Based on support from our backup software partners, this approach is ready to move to the NDMP community and we are pleased to spearhead the drive to establish a standard for the emerging area of disk based backup.""The Data Domain...
Storage Industry Leaders Back Data Domain NDMP File Server Standard - - Data Domain Submits Technology to Industry for Consideration as New Extension to NDMP Standard
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Why You Should Not Attempt a "Do It Yourself" Data Recovery
Charlotte, NC (ContentDesk) April 26, 2006 -- ReWave Hard Drive Recovery offers reasons that end users should not attempt "do it yourself" data recovery.
"Data recovery is a highly specialized and complicated procedure. Care must be taken to prevent the disturbance of the fragile components that reside in a hard drive or other media," says Marlon Stone, Data Recovery Manager of ReWave.Like most specialized high tech procedures, data recovery can be expensive. Many people receive a price quote from a data recovery company and in an effort to save costs, they decide to take matters into their own hands. This can be a fatal mistake for your data.
By taking matters into your own hands, you could cause damage that can make the data irretrievable even by a data recovery company. ReWave offers a list of things you should never do in an attempt to recover your own data:
do not run partitioning software on your failed media, do not reformat the failed media, do not open...
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What Is Data Recovery?
Data recovery is the retrieval of inaccessible or contaminated data from media that has been damaged in some way. Data recovery is being increasingly used and is an important process nowadays.There has been a lot of progress in increasing the memory capacity of data storage devices. Therefore data loss from any one incident also tends to be very high. The relevance of lost data can vary greatly. Maybe you have had the experience of storing a homework assignment on a floppy disk only to have it missing on the day the assignment in due.Consider the fact that a large amount of businesses nowadays have vital organizational related data stored on machines.
Also hospitals store data on patients on computers. Large amounts of websites nowadays use databases technology to enhance their websites and make them more dynamic. Php and MySql use has been on the rise on the Internet. Database failure is not uncommon and so it is not a fail proof method of storing information.Companies have high...
What Is Data Recovery?
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Data Recovery The Easy Way
It's a fact of life that bad things happen to good people's data every now and then. And when it does, too often the victim is not prepared for it. Is that the case with you? Are you prepared in advance for a complete loss of critical files and data on your computer or on your computer network?If you aren't prepared in advance, you will most likely have to use a data recovery service or data recovery software solution to help get back as much as you can of what was lost. This can be a very good idea if there is no other way to recover your files, but it doesn't have to come to that in most cases.This is a classic situation of where an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. A very simple backup routine that is adhered to on a daily basis can usually solve any data loss situation quickly and fairly painlessly.
And it won't cost you anything but the time neded to restore the data files from your backups, and maybe the program files from the original disks.There is a wide choice...
Data Recovery The Easy Way
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Data Recovery Services
Data recovery services allow the computer users to recover lost or corrupted data from various situations and helps data recovery under any kind of circumstance possible. Data recovery is done by professionals who are aptly called data recovery experts. These data recovery experts and companies provide various services like remote data recovery service, in-lab data recovery service, on site service, partner programs and restoration services.
Remote data recovery service is useful when the computer users are placed distantly away from the data recovery experts or companies. The prerequisite here is that your hardware should be functioning normally and thus data recovery can be done from the desktop of your computer itself. This recovery service is not only convenient but also quick.
In-lab data recovery is the option one can take when the hardware is physically crashed or damaged and is not functioning properly.
Then the system has to be reported to the...
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Dell Inc. Authorizes CBL Data Recovery Technologies To Provide Services For Dell Hardware
Armonk, NY & San Diego, CA (ContentDesk) September 23, 2004 ?- CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc.
(http://www.cbltech.com), a leading international provider of computer data recovery services, has been authorized by Dell Inc. to perform data recovery services on all Dell hardware worldwide.Dell users who suffer data loss regardless of location can now contact any CBL facility or authorized partner world wide and arrange to have their media delivered for recovery. CBL offers a free estimate for all recovery jobs regardless of device type or circumstance."Often users are scared to send their affected drives for data recovery for fear it will void the manufacturer's warranty for the entire computer system," says Bill Margeson, CBL Data Recovery Technologies CEO. "Dell's stamp of approval means any user of Dell equipment, whether...
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Back up your important data
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Businesses require both security and data backup to run efficently and productively. Many business owners want to save money and scrimp on data backup protection then get stuck with lost data and valuable time. Here's a case in point that happened within the last two weeks before the holidays last year.
I'll simply call them client A. Client A
runs a business that survives on shipping their product out through UPS. When we first met back in the early spring it was to fix the shipping computer.
He had installed an anti-virus program and it wiped out his e-mail in box.
This is a known bug with MaCAFEE anti-virus and it was a matter of a simple file recovery. In the process of fixing that problem we found other problems and the system was acting very un-stable and nothing was backed up. At that point and several others through the year I tried to encourage him to back up his important records....
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If You Need Help to Recover Data From Your Computer There is No Reason to Pay Over the Odds for It.
If you have had a problem with your hard drive and lost valuable data from it, or unable to see those irreplaceable folders, pictures etc., then the proven Magic Recovery Software could well be the solution to your problem.
There is now a Full Strength Professional software package that reveals those lost files, and puts you back in control.This powerful software tool will allow you to recover your lost data files, even those which have been deleted or sent to the Windows Recycle Bin, and emptied. Files/directories that you thought lost forever are suddenly revealed, including such potentially unrecoverable situations as data files damaged by a virus, a Hard Drive which has been quick-formatted, a volume is lost, e.g. due to damaged partition table and even when Windows is damaged and not bootable, says Steve Fitzgerald from Magic Recovery Software.This new version of the software is called Magic Recovery Professional and will work on all Microsoft operating systems and MS...
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