Data Recovery Blog

“70% of businesses that suffer a major data loss are out of business within 18 months” – DTI

Data recovery and security need to become priorities but there are still significant risks that are largely being ignored.

Writing for Forbes, Kevin West, chief executive officer of Klogix, suggested that data loss is reaching levels so high and costing companies so much that it could start to impact the economy.

While he cites the US as an example, the importance of intellectual property protection and adequate security training are the same for businesses around the world.

Untrustworthy offshore outsourcers, malicious cyber attacks from organisations and governments, a lack of training and the rise of Bring Your Own Policies at work will all make the risk of data loss grow in 2012.

Causes of Data Loss: Hardware Failure,Human Errors,Virus Attack,Software Malfunction, Natural Disaster and Power Crisis…

“There is little formal training offered in the subject of cyber security. As a result we rely on self-taught hackers to fill these jobs, people who choose to use their talents to do good work with corporations, but could just as easily turn to cyber crime,” Mr West added, warning that without investment in training, the issue could get worse.

This view was echoed by Mark Dampster Centre for Cyber Security who warned that the cost of data loss is “vast”.

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Posted by Edward Clark on ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk

Data Storage

Hitachi Looks to Deliver Big Storage in a Small Package

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM14 years ago5 years ago04 mins

The new G-Drive and G-Raid storage products from Hitachi bring data center-scale storage to mobile and small-business users.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced that it has added two new hard drives to its G-Technology series of storage devices. The new drives come in 1TB and 4TB sizes and are incorporated into the G-Technology G-Drive and G-Raid solutions.

The new drives bring impressive amounts of storage space to what are considered mobile or small-business storage devices. The 1TB Travelstar 5K1000 (for G-DRIVE Mobile) and the 4TB Deskstar 7K4000 (for G-DRIVE and G-RAID) have been both designed primarily for Apple Macintosh environments and should prove ideal for those working with large video or image files, as well as supporting backup and archival functions. The G-RAID and G-DRIVE solutions are formatted for Mac OS X systems right out of the box and are Time Machine-ready.

“Whether you’re looking for a RAID solution, desktop solution or portable hard drive, G-Technology continues to deliver the most trusted external storage solutions available,” Mike Williams, vice president and general manager of Hitachi GST Branded Business, said in a statement.

“Our G-RAID and G-DRIVE solutions have been the cornerstone in many gear bags and post-production houses as content creators need big, fast and reliable storage,” Williams said. “Our new solutions with Hitachi Travelstar and Deskstar hard drives are a welcome addition to our family as they give our customers more tools with higher capacities to use in their digital environments.”

Although Fujitsu positions the drives for Apple Macintosh systems, the units also support Microsoft Windows environments. A simple initialization is all that is required to prepare the drives for use with Windows devices. The drives are 7,200-rpm units and are housed in an all-aluminum enclosure for cool operation.

Hitachi GST will ship its Travelstar 5K1000 and Deskstar 7K4000 drives to OEMs, distributors and channel partners in Q1 2012.

The G-RAID is available with 8TB capacity (4TB RAID 1) for $900, while the G-Drive comes in four capacities, ranging from 1TB to 4TB, with prices ranging from $200 to $450. Meanwhile, the G-Drive mobile USB, which Hitachi ships configured for use with a USB port, comes in 750GB and 1TB capacities and is priced at $150 and $200, respectively.

Data Recovery

EaseUS releases new Todo Backup 4.0 for exchange 2010

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM14 years ago5 years ago02 mins

Todo Backup 4.0 can backup GPT disk, exchange 2010 with a brand-new interface.

Data recovery, partition manager and backup utilities provider EaseUS Software has released EaseUS Todo Backup 4.0. Exchange 2010 backup is available in this version.

The new release of EaseUS Todo Backup Central Management Console enables user to deploy backup plans to multiple clients.

EaseUS Todo Backup 4.0 is built upon EaseUS data protection technology and it can backup GPT disk and exchange 2010 with a brand-new interface.

With previous functions like one-click system backup, differential backup and backup to tape, EaseUS Todo Backup aims to achieve a comprehensive backup and recovery process, and assure that all critical information is well protected.

In addition, EaseUS Todo Backup Central Management Console helps IT administrators remotely deploy backup plans for multiple installations of widely distributed EaseUS Todo Backup clients in a LAN, saving time and cost.

EaseUS CEO Liu said EaseUS began to research central management in 2011 and it will perfect it in 2012.

“EaseUS will make your life easier in the coming year 2012. Happy New Year!” said Liu.

Computer Forensic

EnCase Computer Forensics Training for Beginners

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM14 years ago5 years ago03 mins

Guidance Software is recognized globally as a world leader in Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, and E-Discovery solutions. Their services include incident response, computer forensics, litigation support, and experts with hands-on experience in digital investigation. Each year they train over 6,000 corporate, law enforcement, and government professionals in digital forensics, e-discovery, security, and incident response.

This hands-on forensics training course involves practical exercises and real-life simulations in the use of EnCase® Forensic version 7 (EnCase v7). The class provides participants with an understanding of the proper handling of digital evidence from the initial seizure of the computer/media to acquisition, including the use of FastBloc® SE and LinEn. Instruction then progresses to the analysis of the data. It concludes with archiving and validating the data. Delivery method: Group-Live. NASBA defined level: basic.

Students attending this forensics training course will learn:

The EnCase v7 computer forensic methodology
What constitutes digital evidence and how computers work
Basic structures of the FAT and NT file systems
How to create a case and how to preview and acquire media
How to conduct raw and index searches
How to analyze file signatures and view files
How to conduct hash analysis and import hash sets
How to prepare reports, using templates provided with EnCase v7
How to restore evidence
How to archive files and data created through the analysis process
The proper techniques for handling and preserving evidence

Level: Introductory
Prerequlslte: Basic computer skills. Advance preparation for this course is not required.
Tuition: $2,495.00 USD per student.

Note: This training course is intended for IT security professionals, litigation support and forensic investigators Participants may have minimal computer skills and may be new to the field of computer forensics.

Details: http://www.guidancesoftware.com/computer-forensics-training-encase1.htm

Computer Forensic

Computer Forensics Needed to Pin Down GMA

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM14 years ago5 years ago03 mins

The Aquino administration’s drive against corruption may need computer forensics to support the allegations against the Arroyo administration, a multinational risk consultancy said.

In a report dated Dec. 22, the Pacific Strategies and Assessments (PSA) said those involved in crimes like poll sabotage and plunder are secretive and are careful about avoiding a paper trail.

“Computer forensics might hold the key to finding the needed evidence,” said PSA managing director Scott Harrison.

“With the expanding use of computers and digital media in everyday transactions, evidence of criminal activities left in computers and other digital equipment clearly enhances court evidentiary procedures,” he added.

PSA though disclosed in the report that it is one of the companies practicing information technology (IT) forensics in the country. The company also has offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Bangkok, Sydney and Milwaukee.

PSA said money laundering and convoluted business structures created to hide wrongdoing “increasingly require digital investigative techniques to prove a criminal case.”

“The majority of corruption cases in the Philippines are often hampered because much of the presented evidence is hearsay accusations of one or more people against others. Consequently languishing corruption cases are often dismissed or shelved due to a lack of concrete evidence,” Harrison said.

PSA said not one member of the Arroyos or their alleged co-conspirators in poll cheating and corruption have been convicted by the courts since President Aquino assumed office in 2010.

“The lack of investigative resources in the Philippines judicial system may prove to be a bigger impediment to President Aquino’s efforts to weed out corruption than the administration’s frustration with the Supreme Court,” the report read.

PSA said IT forensic specialists can create a mirror image of data inside a computer system and recover deleted, encrypted, or damaged files.

PSA claimed the recovery and analysis of hard disk drives, mobile phones and portable digital storage devices believed to be involved in crime are “critical digital evidence” that can boost one’s legal position in court.

Data Storage

10 Trends in Cloud Data for 2012

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM14 years ago5 years ago09 mins

When 2010 came to a close, the introduction of new private and hybrid cloud systems was on everybody’s trending-up list. Now, as 2011 plays out, we are able to observe that individuals forecasts were generally correct it had been indeed annually of cloud adoption. 1000’s of recent clouds were architected, built and used throughout the final 12 several weeks, plus they came online in most size marketplaces. Where is trending headed for the following 12 several weeks? The majority of the IT business prognosticators have been in agreement on a minumum of one factor: The bend for cloud-based IT buying will continue “up and right.Inch You will find a lot of cost, deployment and monitoring benefits involved for companies to disregard this. With this particular like a backdrop, eWEEK presents here a couple of forecasts for 2012 within the cloud infrastructure space. Our resource is TwinStrata Boss and co-founder Nicos Vekiarides. TwinStrata offers the CloudArray storage-area network (SAN) which comes either like a cloud service or on the commodity server and may be blocked in to a data center. CloudArray finds data stores wherever they’re and combines them.

Existing Storage Remains Used
For many companies, the idea of moving almost all their data towards the cloud isn’t achievable. However, continuously growing data storage is fueling an excuse for more capacity. Believe to deal with this need compared to cloud storage? The advantages are use of a safe and secure, unlimited pool of storage capacity that never requires upgrade/alternative and reduces capital expense.

Private Clouds Growing in Large Businesses
Businesses searching to leverage the financial systems, efficiencies and scale that cloud companies have accomplished are implementing cloud models in-house for example OpenStack for compute and storage conditions. These private clouds offer scale, agility and cost/performance typically unmatched by traditional infrastructure solutions and, simultaneously, can reside in the company’s firewall.

Disaster Recovery to Cloud Becomes a possible option
Typically, firms that need disaster recovery and business continuity have always needed to depend on devoted duplicated infrastructure in an off-site place to have the ability to get over physical disaster. What this means is having to pay capital expenses for frequently-idle hardware, before the disaster strikes. A DR cloud service means not needing to purchase this infrastructure, except when it’s needed. Trade-off? While zero-down time disaster recovery is going to be unlikely, search for service-level contracts (SLAs) that provide recovery-time objectives (RTOs) within hrs.

DR In the Cloud Can Become essential
What goes on to any or all your computer data that resides within the cloud trapped with a software like a service (SaaS) application within the situation of the disaster? The fact is, most companies will have a tragedy recovery strategy, but how will you create an additional degree of protection that’s beneath your control? Search for a brand new variety of solutions that backup SaaS data either in your area in order to another provider.

Simpler On-Boarding of Programs towards the Cloud
Certain business application could be moved entirely towards the cloud, saving the administration and upkeep of their hardware/software platforms on-site. Companies are searching for tools to create this migration viable, specially the IT-strapped organizations that may help the most. Search for new robust toolsets that may migrate programs to a range of cloud companies.

Nonrelational Databases for Large Data Workloads
NoSQL databases, for example Apache CouchDB, enable great scalability to meet the requirements of terabytes and petabytes of information for countless customers. Large data workloads will pressure a lot of companies to think about these options to traditional databases, and cloud deployment models will simplify the rollout. Search for suppliers supplying supported NoSQL solutions.

Solid-Condition Disk Storage Tiers within the Cloud
Moving greater-performance programs within the cloud does not always guarantee that they’ll get the amount of performance they require using their data storage. By providing high-performance tiers of storage which are SSD-based (mainly NAND expensive), cloud companies will have the ability to address the requirements for foreseeable and faster application response occasions.

Data Reduction Will get Better
With data storage still commanding a per-GB operating expense within the cloud, deduplication and compression technologies have grown to be rather ubiqitous in assisting minimize costs. Although some may argue the capability optimisation game has performed out, there’s still the task of capacity optimisation on the more global scale to lessen aggregate capacity usage across multiple tenants. Furthermore, there remains challenging for wealthy media content, which doesn’t fare particularly well with present day technologies. Search for the development of new data reduction IT that addresses both needs.

More Utilisation of the Cloud for Statistics
Statistics need a scalable compute and storage atmosphere that may be very costly to construct from devoted hardware (i.e., Oracle’s $a million Exalogic database machine). Statistics software may also be an extremely costly area of the proposition. Much like hardware remaining idle for disaster recovery reasons, statistics for a lot of companies might be a periodic exercise that only runs in a nutshell bursts and might not be suited or viable for devoted conditions. Statistics conditions within the cloud turn the periodic expense right into a “pay-per-use” bill, meeting business goals in a cheaper cost point.

‘Cloud-Envy’ Gets To Be More Commonplace
Although companies will adopt clouds in 2012, others can always wait and ponder well past 2012. In most cases, the realization from the financial aspects and efficiencies from the cloud is apparent, although the strategy might be different. In reaction, a few of the laggards could find ideas and applications proven cloud methods that improve IT efficiency on-premise or, regrettably, some may be taken in by cloud-washing by buying traditional IT infrastructure having a cloud title inside a feeble make an effort to satisfy their “cloud-envy.”

Hard Disk Repair

Format a FAT32 Partition Larger Than 32GB on a Samsung External Drive

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM14 years ago5 years ago01 mins

How to format a Samsung external drive with a FAT32 partition larger than 32 GB using Samsung Format Utility?

The Samsung Format Utility is a program specifically designed for Samsung external drives.
It can format the drive using either the NTFS or FAT32 file system.

Download: Samsung Format Utility

Step 1: Download and launch the Samsung Format Utility;
Step 2: Select Samsung External Hard Drive for Device and the desired drive for Drive To format and FAT 32 for the File System;
Step 3: Input a Volume Label and click the Start button;

Note: Using the Samsung Format Utility will erase all data on the external drive. Ensure you have backed up all data from the external drive before running this utility.

Hard Disk Repair

Samsung SpinPoint: Jumper to change transfer rate from 3 Gbps to 1.5 Gbps

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM14 years ago5 years ago01 mins

Samsung SpinPoint SATA drives Jumper Setting: change transfer rate from 3 Gbps to 1.5 Gbps

Some computer motherboards with Serial ATA connections do not support SATA 3.0 Gbps performance. A jumper can be applied to Samsung SpinPoint Serial ATA drives that support 3.0 Gbps performance to slow the drive down to 1.5 Gbps so that these motherboards can support the drive.

Note: This jumper should be used only when the motherboard can not compensate for the drive’s faster performance.

Data Storage

Data Storage to Be Priority in 2012 – KeepItSafe

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM14 years ago5 years ago03 mins

The storage, securement, access and management of growing volumes of information will mark 2012 within the technology sector, handled online backup and disaster recovery services provider KeepItSafe forecasts.

This rise in the quantity of data does mean using USB stays for data storage will decrease as companies be conscious of the potential risks that may include while using products.

USB sticks are small , portable, and therefore they are able to easily finish up lost or stolen. Research because of it security and data protection company Sophos also says two-thirds of 50 USB stays available on Australian trains and buses were have contracted adware and spyware and contained unencrypted details about their former proprietors.

Therefore, KeepItSafe stated, the virtualisation of servers and desktop computers increases as companies will have to adjust their storage systems to support the growing quantity of data they produce.

“It is impossible for service companies to carry on to handle storage needs with traditional local storage, this can pressure natural evolution to disaster-recovery solutions and data backup towards the cloud. This change won’t be viewed among large businesses but additionally among SMBs. stated Eoin Blacklock, controlling director, KeepItSafe.

“All companies will have to look for flexible, scalable and affordable storage options that may grow using their companies, putting data support high on the diary for 2012.”

Tape has become progressively hard to rely on and it is receding of favour with lots of organisations, Blacklock added.

Technology research and advisory firm Gartner discovered that 71pc of backup tape reinstates fail.

The escape from tape may also benefit companies financially, based on EMC Ireland?¡¥s country manager Jason Ward.

“Companies and public-sector organisations can significantly spend less and be slimmer by eliminating tape, that is cumbersome and susceptible to security breaches,” Ward stated.

Data Recovery

Pandora Recovery Software: “The Best” Data Recovery Software

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM14 years ago5 years ago07 mins

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The planet pandora Recovery rated towards the top of FindTheBest’s “Best of Data Recovery Software 2011“. It received greatest markings, five from five stars, according to FindTheBest’s human-curated mixture of both a meta rating of software industry expert sources as well as an objective rating in line with the key features and specifications from the software.

Based on James Resetco, Business Development for Software at FindTheBest: “The resulting Wise Rating implies that Pandora’s Recovery product is among the best options readily available for anybody searching to recuperate lost or broken data.”

“We couldn’t be more happy relating to this award,” states The planet pandora Corp. co-founder, James Leasure. “We have produced a course that rebounds whenever possible for the customers, while ensuring it’s incredibly simple to use for that average, non-technical computer customers who require a quick and efficient recovery. We’re absolutely thrilled to become recognized for your.”

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