Data Recovery Newsletters - July 2008

New Data Replication Technologies Address Disaster Recovery Planning Needs

Due to increased concerns and legislation around data recovery and retention, organizations are evaluating their remote data recovery options. Unfortunately, weeding through the myriad options and claims can be quite daunting. Companies must take a holistic approach, carefully considering many issues including the target environment, scope of the project along with chief objectives, and business and technical risks associated with deploying a solution.

A new category of disaster recovery solutions is emerging. Virtually synchronous replication or asynchronous mirroring was previously unavailable due to the difficulty in maintaining the characteristics of a localized disk mirror over distance. Now available, this article by Miralink founder Ron McCabe details how and when to use it. Read the full article

Encryption Makes Data Recovery More Complex But Still Possible

One of the popular myths about encrypted data is that it is not possible to recover it when lost or deleted. While encryption may complicate the data recovery process, it does not make data recovery impossible.

This article looks at recovery options for encrypted data and explains that with or without the decryption 'key', data recovery can still often be successful. See how to recover encrypted data

Recover Lost Digital Photos for Less

Many home computer users fill a large portion of their desktop or laptop hard drive with digital photos; and unfortunately, most people have no backup for those precious photo files. So when digital photos are lost or deleted from a memory chip or hard drive, the common reaction is sheer panic.

Ontrack Data Recovery digital photo recovery services can help.