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• Data Recovery
• Hard Drive Recovery
• Laptop Data Recovery
• Data Recovery Services
• Hard Drive Data Recovery

Any discussion regarding data recovery should include the topics of data storage and loss mitigation. If you are thinking ahead, you will contemplate what could go wrong before it does. Most of us know this is good practice.

If I am operating a business that has significant computing resources, and therefore liabilities, I am going to concern myself with data storage and loss mitigation.

To start with, I need to secure my system. I need strong passwords protecting my data and interfaces and a solid procedure in place for handing out credentials. This level of security is sufficient for most companies, but firms with classified records and the like would need to take this step to the next level. I am sure that the federal government would be more than willing to provide these companies with a set of standards that are expected if that is the case.

The location I physically store my servers is of importance as well. The rule of thumb is dual-location if at all possible. You want a natural disaster or the like to not affect both centers simultaneously. If it’s a multi-billion dollar corporation, they are going to have several data centers with redundant back-ups in different geographic areas. Smaller firms will have similar setups on an appropriate scale. For example, Oncor Electric Delivery, the major transmission data service provider in north Texas has several data centers, but since they are a company that only operates in that region of the state, the centers are limited to that area. These two main principles, data center location and access control should prevent many instances of data loss.

Now let’s turn to the equipment itself. How many of you have ever purchased a new car? How many of you that said yes were greatly frustrated by the smallest thing that went wrong with it in the first few months? It’s not supposed to break, right? Well, sometimes things do break. With technology that relies on miniscule tolerances in manufacturing, it’s only natural to concede that sometimes things just break. Be prepared for that. Have a vendor on deck to replace faulty components and – I can’t stress this enough – back up your data!

Ask any student who ever had to retype most or all of a paper what the value of the “save” button is. Save, save, save. Save your data as often as your company can afford to.

If you have an outage, that usually means data loss, unless you hire a data recovery specialist, which will cost a pretty penny itself. When you have this data loss, you can restore data that you have saved, whether it’s to replacement equipment or repaired original equipment. If you backed the data up at midnight every night and the system crashed at eleven in the evening, you’ve potentially lost twenty-three hours of data. Ouch.

Plan ahead. Use good IT security procedures to protect access. Choose the location of your facility wisely. Equipment fails, have a plan to service it. Back up the data. Enlist the services of a data recovery specialist if you do experience a loss.