Backing up your hard drive is one of those tasks that rates somewhere between flossing your teeth and checking the air in your tires, it’s a necessity that can cause great regret if not done regularly. Backing up is the first rule of thumb for protecting all your important data and clearly it has real [...]

You find the strangest things inside computers…actually this little bat was having a nap in the stairwell of our building. He was released uninjured in the field across the street from our offices.

  Newegg.com, the online retailer of electronics and computer products, has expanding its services into data recovery services plans, the company said Tuesday. NewEgg has partnered with DriveSavers which will provide data recovery services to customers whose storage devices fail. The service–which works beyond backup and recovery to recover critical data from a failed or [...]

RSA: Five Top Internet Security Threats in 2012 by Jacqueline Emigh Cybercriminals will keep pursuing consumers, businesses and government agencies, but other Internet security violators in 2012 will range from teen “hacktivists” to “Big Data companies,” foreign governments, and corporate employees, said security experts on hand at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. With regard to [...]

On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. ET, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), The Santa Fe Group/Shared Assessments Program Healthcare Working Group, and the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) will host a free webinar to help health care organizations assess security risks and help them build a business case to better secure protected health information (PHI). Webinar participants will hear from [...]

Digital photography offers a fast and convenient way for photographers to accomplish their work. However, with convenience comes the extra task of managing camera cards and unlimited numbers of digital images. Add to the list, the very real possibility of a hard drive crash or physically damaged camera card and data recovery becomes a priority. [...]

Ask any IT professional what the fastest, most reliable and durable storage device is and you’re likely to get the same answer-RAID. Nevertheless, for all the benefits RAID devices have to offer, they are still misunderstood. Many believe them to be infallible. The truth is RAID devices can and do fail frequently. Jonathan Gass, IT [...]

An independent study by the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, has unveiled a Data Security Checklist for vetting third-party data recovery service providers. The study, “Security of Data Recovery Operations,” conducted among IT security and IT support practitioners, is the first national study published on the security of data recovery operations [...]

For as long as DriveSavers Data Recovery has been in business, we’ve always been sent hard drives that have suffered severe water damage. Some of our most spectacular saves include three hard drives that were intentionally thrown into a lake in an attempt to destroy evidence; countless drives from Hurricane Katrina; the 1997 Grand Forks, [...]