By Aynsley Watson – Edinburgh Data Recovery Expert
Small businesses lack the efficient systems for preventing and recuperating from data loss, according to an individual report authorised by Kroll Ontrack.
The survey questioned IT professionals from companies across Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong to ascertain their exercises of data deletion, data loss and data archive process.
Almost half of the responders underwent data loss in the workplace and thirty-six percentage think data loss could significantly affect their business concern. However, forty-nine percentage of small companies neglect to back up their data on a day by day basis.
The report revealed an alarming approach to the computer storage, retention, backup and disposal of organisations invaluable data, said Adrian Briscoe, General Manager, Ontrack Data Recovery APAC, a division of Kroll Ontrack.
Briscoe said data loss can affect business productivity, however small businesses were less probable to have a policy for the conservation of information.
Briscoe added, Many companies do a outstanding job with rollout of their data management system, but then no one revisits it on a day-after-day basis to make sure it is still operating effectively.
The survey also divulged nearly a quarter of companies had no formal policy for deleting sensitive information and respondents were also disinclined to seek the help of a third-party data service supplier.
Aynsley Watson is the co-owner of Kingdom IT File Recovery specialists, Edinburgh offering Data Recovery services and IT consultancy for SMEs, http://www.kingdomit.co.uk for more details.
Top 10 Data Recovery Disasters 2008
By Aynsley Watson – Edinburgh Data Recovery Expert
Kingdom IT has accumulated a list of the most unusual and most extreme data loss cases from the past year.
10. All at Sea – An around-the-world sailing jaunt finished severely when the traveller’s boat overturned on the final day of her holiday with a laptop on board. Thankfully, the engineers were able to recover one hundred percent of the data, which referenced her once-in-a-lifetime experience.
9. All Cooped Up – When Hurricane Katrina hit the US in 2005, a newlywed couple caught in the hurricane guessed both their engagement and wedding photographs would never be retrieved. Their concerns worsened when a local data recovery provider deemed the drive “rusted beyond repair”. Two and half years later, the duo dug out the soggy drive from their cellar and gave Data Recovery one more a try. The attempt proved worthwhile since all of the engagement and wedding images were retrieved.
8. Gone Fishing – A attorney on vacation thought she could angle with her father and do some business simultaneously. Infuriated that she had brought a laptop into the fishing boat, her fathers friend tossed the laptop bag (holding the laptop and backup media) overboard.
The fully clothed attorney jumped in after the laptop. She was relieved when her important business and tax info was recovered by Data Recovery skilled engineers.
7. Thats a Wrap – An independent movie maker was laying the final touches to his current Western using his MacBook Pro when it began making funny noises and crashed. Without a backup copy, he was concerned his year of hard work would go to waste. Using Data Recovery services, the film was retrieved, completed and sold. It is now for sale internationally on DVD.
6. Stolen Goods – A laptop was taken from a family house along with a handbag, car keys and the family car. The car was recovered the next day by the riverbank, but with no sign of the laptop or bag.
Days later, a Good Samaritan came to the burgled house with a dripping-wet laptop case, and the laptop inside. His son had discovered it washed out on the beach. How was the Good Samaritan able to ascertain the owner?
The thief had stuffed the purse into the laptop bag before casting it off into the river. Data Recovery engineers regained the data.
5. Dog Gone Wild – A disorderly dog bumped a portable USB drive off a coffee table, rendering it unreadable by the familys computer. At stake were 5 years of family photographs. Thankfully all were recovered by Data Recovery experts.
4. Baby Teeth – Data Recovery experts got an SD card from a camera with tons of teeth marks on it. The client suggested a feral animal had got hold of it and chewed it. The feral animal he was pertaining to was his 2-year-old boy. A full retrieval was reached.
3. Sucked Up – An everyday house housecleaning went askew when a flash drive was sucked-up along with food crumbs by a vacuum cleaner. It was so strong that tracks from the drive were forced from the circuit board and the connector was pulled loose. However, the data was recovered.
2. Its a Jungle Out There – A wildlife research institute project came to an abrupt stop when one of the flash tracking chips from a Florida panthers collar was physically broken in the wild. The crucial panther conservation data was successfully reclaimed.
And lastly, the number 1 most extraordinary data disaster of 2008
1. Roast Laptop – A gentleman put his laptop into the oven, before going on vacation, in order to protect it from burglars if the house was perchance broken into.
His wife came home and used the oven to cook a roast chicken before his return.
The oven roasted not only the chicken, but the laptop drive too. In spite of this, the mans data was retrieved using proprietary methods by Data Recovery engineers.
Aynsley Watson is the co-owner of Kingdom ITFile Recovery specialists, Edinburgh offering Data Recovery services and IT consultancy for SMEs, http://www.kingdomit.co.uk for more details.
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