( 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...
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Category: helpful hints, helpful hints
tags: data destruction,
identity,
sensitive data
(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...
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Category: business, helpful hints
tags: data loss
( 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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Category: data loss prevention, helpful hints
tags: backing up data,
damaged hard drive,
data loss,
data loss prevention,
data recovery,
raid array,
raid array failure
( 7 February 2008)
Laptops continue to populate our IT-landscape in growing numbers. The convenience that laptops afford us, the choice of applications available, and declining price are compelling reasons individuals and organizations are embracing laptops rather than their more sedimentary PC cousins. And, we cannot dismiss the growing trend of the...
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Category: data loss prevention, helpful hints
tags: back-up,
corrupted disks,
damaged hard drive,
data loss,
data loss prevention,
data recovery,
hard drive failure,
laptop,
laptop recovery,
prevention
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(31 January 2008)
CBL Rescues and Preserves Data for Environmentalists Committed to the Rescue and Preservation of the Costa Rican Rainforest.
For individuals who have had the good fortune of traveling to one of the most bio-diverse and less explored regions which still remains on the planet, the Durika Biological Reserve of Costa...
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Category: case studies, data recovery
tags: back up,
damaged hard drive,
data loss,
data recovery,
digital photograph recovery,
digital photos,
drive malfunction,
hard drive crash,
laptop recovery,
lost photographs,
lost photos,
photo recovery
