The question of data recovery comes to mind when an enterprise, with much larger volume and several business centers across the globe, loses its valuable data at one of its centers from a natural disaster like the recent Katrina hurricane, earth quake, flood or a terrorist attack. An organization’s data is considered to be its most vital asset in today’s fast growing business world. Not convinced? Consider a few types of data items like Text documents, financial records, contact records, address books, email messages and databases that you have created on your computer or servers may disappear forever unless you take a serious action to prevent it. Besides this you can be at risk of data loss due to programming errors, media/device failures, natural disasters, virus attacks and theft too.

In such situations business owners and managers are forced to ask questions like the ones below:

• Do we have an offsite backup of data for our destroyed or lost center?
• How much data can be recovered and in what time frame?
• How much cost is needed to successfully get our lost data back?

Oops! These are the questions that need to be answered instantly. Here the company owners and business managers feel the true importance of offline backup and data recovery service from a professional data recovery company.

The negated answer to first question is not easy to digest. Indubitably, the company that has suffered the situation of data loss will carry out significant measures to deal with disastrous circumstances in future. The best and the most frequent practiced solution must be to have offline backup for your valuable data periodically.

To recover data from disastrous situations requires a lot of effort and it also depends upon the severity of destruction that has really hit your storage media and devices. In most cases the lost data is recoverable up to 60 percent. But there are data recovery companies which are able to recover 80 to 90 percent data after the loss. But in spite of wasting time and money on recovery it is advisable to use more than one data backup methodologies as data loss can happen to anyone in this uncertain world.

The cost for recovering your data is very critical factor which not only flourish your business but also affects it badly when you have a limited budget. It is observed that businesses that suffer data loss never stand up again; anyhow if they manage to continue their business after suffering the loss, 90 percent end up failing within two years. Again the solution to successfully cope up with all the catastrophic circumstances is to maintain a secure backup of your vital data.

For further information of how can you protect your data, regardless of disaster and failure, and how to recover data from lost hard drives, raid servers, tapes, file recovery and other removable media like flash cards, Iomega zip, memeory cards,Jaz disks and floppy disks, please visit http://www.optimumrecovery.com

M Usman Qureshi, 22-05-06

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