Data colocation is one of the most important IT areas because the office’s data center stores all of the data, whether in backup form or an easily accessible form. Read on.

At a time when many businesses are focused on cost cutting, retaining IT network consultants is often a last-ditch effort to solve a major IT problem. However, being proactive and hiring consultants before major problems occur often saves the most money. Knowing the right time to hire consultants can be challenging, but certain signs indicate that the assistance of consultants will eventually be necessary.

Companies predict what business will be like tomorrow, but no company can predict a disaster that brings business to a halt. Each year, thousands of companies experience floods, fires, earthquakes, and other disasters that destroy assets and render buildings uninhabitable. In most cases, the biggest losses from these events involve proprietary data – an intangible asset that cannot be insured.

Companies plan for various types of events, but a disaster that interrupts daily business is one event that many companies have not addressed. Most companies are statistically unlikely to experience a disaster that destroys the IT infrastructure, but businesses that experience such an event often emerge from it with somber advice to give: unless a company has a disaster recovery plan in place, the chances of it remaining in business following the disaster are grim. Providers of IT consulting services are familiar with this advice; they give it to clients every day.

Most companies never experience an event that threatens to put them out of business, but those that do know the value of having a disaster recovery plan in place. Disaster recovery planning involves anticipating what a company needs to survive an event that makes its location uninhabitable, and/or destroys important data that is stored there. In most cases, a plan involves at least four elements…

There are two ways to recover data. One of them is through a Do it yourself software and another way is by hiring professional service to retrieve data. What are the things to consider when selecting anyone procedure?

As technology evolves, we are continuing to become reliant on mass amounts of data to forge ahead, but how is all that data managed and is it secure? What people in your company are managing all of this important data and do they have too much access?

Do you know what a zettabytes is? It’s a data quantity measurement and it’s roughly equivalent to 1.8 trillion gigabytes. According to a recent study by the International Data Corporation (IDC), computers will have generated 1.8 zettabytes of information by the end of 2012. That’s a lot of ones and zeros, to be sure. Their study went on to state that the world’s data pool doubles every year. That’s mind-boggling!

Whether it happens today, next week, or six months from now, your company will experience data loss of some kind. A disaster is a disruptive event that makes normal work impossible; a disaster recovery plan consists of the precautions taken before the disaster happens. Thus, making the aftermath minimized and the company can resume normal functions as quickly as possible. Everyone knows they need to have a disaster plan, a way to retrieve the information critical to a business when the main source has been cut off for an unforeseen reason, but not everyone takes the time and the money to invest in a plan, which is absolutely necessary.

If you computer is ever struck down by a virus or computer crash then it is important that your files are backed up. Our review looks at online storage provider JustCloud.

Bare Metal Restore is essentially rebuilding the computer from scratch in the event of a system failure. It involves reinstalling the Operating System, Software and if possible the data and settings.

If you own a computer and haven’t experienced your own horror story, believe me you will. The statistics are on my side when I make that statement. Even the computer manufacturers tell people to backup their data.