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Top 10 Data Destruction Disasters
Talkback Dry ice works well too, because the drive will stay cold while doing the data recovery. Just make sure the drive is dry and you have a way to pull the data off immediately. Freezing a hard drive is a legitimate way to recover the contents, and it...
[August 24, 2005, 14:07]
Top 10 Data Destruction Disasters
News Ontrack Data Recovery unveiled its 2004 list of the 10 strangest and funniest computer mishaps. Jim Reinert is Ontrack Data Recovery senior director of Software and Services. So he tried that method and asked the recovery engineers not to laugh.
[August 22, 2005, 11:45]
Active@ Eraser
Downloads Active@ Eraser is the most comprehensive data destruction toolset, which includes Windows and DOS applications, for keeping your PC secure from undesired data recovery. DoD 5220.22-M, German VSITR, and Russian GOST P50739-95 data-destruction methods.
[March 10, 2004, 4:01]
PC Sleuths Search For Enron's Shredded Secrets
News In the shredding scandale du jour, involving bankrupt energy company Enron and its auditor, Andersen, the digital office has immeasurably changed the landscape for would-be document destruction -- and recovery.
[February 5, 2002, 12:00]
Mainframe Data Backup And Disaster Recovery White Paper
White Papers The concept of data backup includes not only the backing up of data, but also the ability to restore the data after some loss or failure, either accidentally (disk failure) or through the wilful destruction of the data.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser
Downloads The most secure Gutmann's data destruction method is also implemented. Active@ KillDisk - Hard Drive Eraser is powerful and compact software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of...
[June 10, 2008, 14:57]
The Western And Southern Life Insurance Company Helps Ensure Safe End-of-Lease Returns With Asset Recovery Solutions From IBM Global Financing
White Papers Using IBM Asset Recovery Solutions for secure, documented data destruction on 2,500 mobile computers coming off lease, Western-Southern Life took important steps to help protect itself from legal exposures under the Right to Financial Privacy Act...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
How To Prevent Loss Of Data And Hard Disk Crashes
White Papers The latest versions of Windows are the favorite targets of malicious programs such as spyware and viruses, and it is helpful to use 2 or more antivirus/anti-spyware programs to prevent destruction or theft of the data.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
NEC Delivers New Disaster Recovery Solution
White Papers Built with NEC's EXPRESSCLUSTER software, Express5800/320Lb server and S1300 storage platforms, the Disaster Recovery FT Solution protects mission-critical data in the event of the destruction of local computing resources, while allowing surviving...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
After Katrina... Remapping Disaster Plan
White Papers The multi-state path of destruction of hurricanes Rita and Katrina has turned that rule on its head, forcing many IT managers to rethink their disaster recovery plans. In IT, there was an accepted rule of thumb that stated that primary and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Max File Shredder
Downloads We use 7 pass destruction scheme as per DOD std 7 for shredding the data. Max File Shredder is privacy protection software that protects your privacy by completely shredding the files you specify, beyond recovery.
[June 25, 2007, 15:16]
IEpal
Downloads This program gives you one-click safe destruction (with optional settings) of records containing information about pictures you've viewed, Web sites you've visited, files you've opened, and other online hidden traces that put your privacy at risk.
[April 4, 2005, 23:16]
The Pros And Cons Of High-availability Systems
News A loss of the physical site could result in the destruction of the backup systems as well as the production systems. Either of these steps can provide the ability to recover from both small and data-centre-level disasters, albeit with different...
[June 17, 2005, 12:50]
How Well Would Your Data Centre Work Underwater?
News Flood waters come and go, and leave devastation and destruction in their wake. Backing up and/or replication of data to an off-site location is mandatory here, just as it is for most Disaster Recovery (DR) operations.
[April 12, 2005, 10:40]
Don't Take Data-wiping Methods For Granted
News The second method is physical destruction of media. However, formatting alone became insufficient due to the widespread availability of cheap data recovery utilities. In theory (and sometimes in practice), demagnetisers zap (degauss) a drive with a...
[September 13, 2006, 14:00]
Ensuring Your Business Can Survive Disaster
News If you think such a situation is unlikely, all you have to do is remember the terrible destruction of 9/11 - not the loss of equipment and systems, but the people who were responsible for them. When many of us work on disaster recovery plans we...
[April 5, 2005, 11:20]
Sharman Fails To Have Evidence Dismissed
News Wilcox said in a statement released following the court proceeding that the purpose of the Anton Pillar order was to prevent the destruction of material that may relate to the case. He adds that the Anton Pillar order "does just that", as the order...
[March 4, 2004, 9:00]
Ensuring Your Business Survives Disaster
News Dealing with massive destruction and death is not something any employee should ever have to deal with, but this can be an unfortunate fact of life. Every disaster recovery (DR) expert understands the importance of stressing the potential of the...
[June 29, 2005, 14:30]
Laptop-shooting Tops Computer Mishaps Poll
News Bizarre methods of destruction regularly pop up in folklore online. The list of bizarre computer mishaps, compiled by data recovery experts Kroll Ontrack, does include several notebook owners whose equipment befell unusual fates.
[October 13, 2003, 17:05]
Chernobyl - The Stories Keep Coming In
News Little of the widespread destruction forecast in past weeks came to fruition. No names, but we hear from a data recovery service that a French bank woke up to find 40,000 workstations in tatters The 'hard disk crusher' virus that infects a computer...
[April 27, 1999, 10:32]
