IntelliRecovery, Inc. today announced that they would extend a helping hand to all Southern California fire victims.
IntelliRecovery, Inc. today announced that they would extend a helping hand to all Southern California fire victims. Effective immediately, the company will offer all victims special data recovery discounts for any Standard recovery jobs for any computer systems sustaining damage from severe fire damage. Any victims from Southern California’s wildfire should contact IntelliRecovery Data Recovery with any of their data recovery needs at 888-995-3282 or contact@intellirecovery.com.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA IntelliRecovery, Inc. today announced that they would extend a helping hand to all Southern California fire victims. Effective immediately, the company will offer all victims special data recovery discounts for any Standard recovery jobs for any computer systems sustaining damage from severe fire damage. Any victims from Southern California’s wildfire should contact IntelliRecovery Data Recovery with any of their data recovery needs at 888-995-3282 or contact@intellirecovery.com.
This accident has hit close to home and has undoubtedly made a huge impact on our state. We would like to extend our data recovery services to those we have lost valuable data due to this terrible disaster. Said Andy Wong, Vice President of IntelliRecovery Data Recovery.Any victims from Southern California’s wildfire should contact IntelliRecovery Data Recovery with any of their data disaster needs at 888-995-3282 or contact@intellirecovery.com.
About IntelliRecovery, Inc.IntelliRecovery, Inc. is a global data recovery services provider for all types of computer storage media effected by hardware failure, human error, natural disasters, software corruption, and more. With experienced engineers, the latest recovery techniques/technology and a customer service oriented mentality, IntelliRecovery has stepped into the forefront as one of the leading data recovery providers worldwide.
IntelliRecovery donates Data Recovery services to the Aceh Project -Tsunami Relief Organization.
IntelliRecovery donates Data Recovery services to the Aceh Project -Tsunami Relief Organization.
The Aceh Province was the hardest hit of any of the tsunami affected areas. The latest numbers indicate over 180,000 people died in this small area due to it's close proximity to the epicenter.
Two organizations are in the forefront to assist in the disaster relief: Global Sikhs & Waves of Mercy. Both organizations are currently concentrating their reduced efforts near Sebang, on a village that was not hit nearly as badly as the region that Project Aceh is returning to.
IntelliRecovery was contacted to recover vital photographs which were taken on-site during relief efforts. IntelliRecovery Data Recovery has donated their services to the Aceh project to assist in any way they can to help the victims of this unfortunate disaster. Below is a letter from Mr. Michael Brown thanking IntelliRecovery for their assistance.
Dear IntelliRecovery,
Your help in recovering 6 weeks of tsunami relief photographs was invaluable and greatly appreciated. You can imagine our feelings when we received error messages upon trying to transfer our photographs to the computer, and then again our feelings of relief upon receiving the message from your technicians that many of the photographs were saved. Project Aceh is a volunteer organization formed after the tsunami of 26 December 2004, and involved in the relief and rebuilding in the Aceh Province of Sumatra Island, Indonesia. We contacted Intellirecovery when we thought 6 weeks of photographs were lost due to problems retrieving the information on the memory card of a digital camera. When we need data recovered, we know where to go!
Thank you so very much Intellirecovery!
Michael Brown
Project Aceh
About IntelliRecovery Data Recovery
IntelliRecovery, Inc.(http://www.intellirecovery.com/) is a global data recovery services provider for all types of computer storage media effected by hardware failure, human error, natural disasters, software corruption, and more. With experienced engineers, the latest recovery techniques/technology and a customer service oriented mentality, IntelliRecovery has stepped into the forefront as one of the leading data recovery providers worldwide.
RAID Data Recovery and common RAID levels for small businesses
RAID Data Recovery and common RAID levels for small businesses
Data is undoubtedly vital to both companies and individuals throughout the world. Technology has grown in leaps and bounds throughout the years and storage media has grown with it.
With such an amount of mission critical data stored within delicate mechanical storage systems, a company may not realize how huge of an impact a failed RAID server can make on their companies core functionalities. Data loss for most companies are not a mere inconvenience, but instead a huge financial liability and risk.
Here at IntelliRecovery Data Recovery, we fully understand the importance of your data and just how vital it is to the success of your company. With this understanding in mind, we have structured our infrastructure to allow the absolute optimal facilities and tools to give your company the absolute best chance to recover from your Raid Server.
No matter what configuration your company may utilize be it a RAID, array, SAN, NAS or any other disk server system, IntelliRecovery can recover it. IntelliRecovery engineers are armed with proprietary software and techniques to recover from all types of Enterprise storage systems.
Here are some of the most common RAID systems and how they work.:
(rād) Short for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks, a category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID disk drives are used frequently on servers but aren't generally necessary for personal computers.
RAID configurations are designed to protect an organization from physical hardware failures at the disk level, which is a very common occurrence. RAID systems are a series of physical disks that act in concert to increase performance and/or protect the system and its data against the failure of any one disk (and in some cases, against the failure of multiple disks).
- RAID 0 This involves "striping" the disks, which distributes data across multiple disks but appears to the operating system as a single drive. This level offers no protection, but it does speed up disk operations in most cases. Most hardware- and software-based RAID systems support this type of array.
- RAID 1 Also known as disk mirroring, this RAID system duplicates any disk operations to multiple disks. When you write data to what appears to be a single drive, you actually write it to two or more disks. This level offers data recoverability, but it comes at the cost of performance, since every disk action occurs multiple times. Once again, both hardware and software systems usually support this type of array.
- RAID 5 Offering distributed data with parity, this RAID system provides data redundancy and increases speed. RAID 5 stripes data across multiple disks (like RAID 0) while maintaining a system of parity blocks that allow the array to know what data is on each physical disk, even if a disk is lost due to malfunction. This level requires at least three physical disks. In addition, you lose a portion of your space in order for the system to save the parity data and recover lost data in case of failure.
- For RAID 5, you generally need hardware-based RAID controllers. However, most servers come with a RAID controller option, so even smaller shops can take advantage of this RAID level.
- RAID 10 and RAID 0+1These levels are two of the most popular. RAID 10 involves mirroring a striped disk set to another striped disk set. RAID 0+1 stripes and mirrors to an identical set of disks, as opposed to only one disk.
Summary:
RAID-0 is the fastest and most efficient array type but offers no fault-tolerance.
RAID-1 is the array of choice for performance-critical, fault-tolerant environments. In addition, RAID-1 is the only choice for fault-tolerance if no more than two drives are desired.
RAID-2 is seldom used today since ECC is embedded in almost all modern disk drives.
RAID-3 can be used in data intensive or single-user environments which access long sequential records to speed up data transfer. However, RAID-3 does not allow multiple I/O operations to be overlapped and requires synchronized-spindle drives in order to avoid performance degradation with short records.
RAID-4 offers no advantages over RAID-5 and does not support multiple simultaneous write operations.
RAID-5 is the best choice in multi-user environments which are not write performance sensitive. However, at least three, and more typically five drives are required for RAID-5 arrays.
IntelliRecovery RAID Server Data Recovery Process
To begin your Raid server data recovery process, please call our toll free number (888-995-DATA) to speak to a Raid data recovery representative. He/she will provide you with a price estimate per your system specifications as well as go through a full breakdown of our Raid recovery process. You will be guided through our data recovery form so that our engineers have all the information they need to give you the best chance of recovery.
Once your media is received here at IntelliRecovery, it is immediately logged into our system. Customer communication is key in the Raid data recovery process. Once the customers’ media is received, an email and/or phone notification will be placed to confirm receipt.
Media will then go through an initial engineer diagnostic & evaluation to accurately determine specific media damage and or logical issues. From this assessment, engineers will provide a proper course of action for Raid recovery. From these assessments, IntelliRecovery may then provide customer with a firm and accurate price quotation. Once this report and price quotation is provided, customer will then be asked for their full authorization to allow our engineers to proceed with their Raid recovery job.
Once this quotation is approved, engineers will begin your full Raid data recovery process and will contact you throughout this process as updates arise.
Once engineers have fully completed the data recovery process, customer will then have a choice of return media for their recovered data. Common choices include, FTP transfer, CD-R, DVD-R and Target Hard Drive.
If you would like more information or initiate a data recovery job, please call 888-995-DATA(3282) or go directly to our Getting StartedPage.
How to Prevent Lost Data for Small Businesses
How to Prevent Lost Data for Small Businesses
It has been said that many companies go to great lengths to protect their data from data loss and the need for data recovery. Some companies actually store vital data within war bunkers buried hundreds of feet below the surface to shelter itself from unknown outside forces.
As most companies would not need such drastic measures for data security, all companies from small to large must protect their data from elements such as floods, hackers, human error, and hardware failures.
In business, time is money, and any type of data loss could cost a company thousands to millions of dollars or could potentially, put them permanently out of business. What this all boils down to is, all companies small or large must have a data recovery/data loss plan in place.
How quickly a company can get up and running is truly dependant on the preparation of the IT administrator. A few key questions one must ask themselves is how long could your business stay afloat if you were to lose all accounting information or even the entire email server. There are many people out there who consistently rely on their computers day-in and day-out to turn on and function perfectly everyday of the week, truly taking for granted that they are susceptible to viruses, human errors, and mechanical failures.
With a true understanding of the value of a companys data along with all unforeseen data loss possibilities understood, its time to make a plan. For most companies, a sensible backup solution is required which must be checked on and executed on a regular basis. Key points to remember are:
1. Routine backups must be made if not on a daily basis, at the least a weekly basis.
2. Backups must be comprehensive meaning you must insure that nothing is left out and all data is fully backed up.
3. Multiple storage site locations. Data should be kept in multiple locations due to unforeseen occurrences such as a fire. Data should also be kept within a firesafe for added protection.
4. Data backup is a key step in the process but a step which is often overlooked is checking all backups for data integrity. What this means is testing to make sure all the data you back up actually works.
The next step is to find out, just what type of backup solution fits your needs. First question would be, how much data do you need to backup? You will first need to start by finding out what data is truly vital to your company – what data you simply could not do without. Approximate the storage capacity as well as think about the future growth of your company. Here are a handful of backup options for most small companies:
1. Backing up over the internet to an off-site remote server. Internet up-speeds is the main factor to make this option feasible.
2. Mobile storage media backups. This method generally works well for small volumes of data. Options include transferring data to CDs or DVDs, DVDs being the more ideal choice in that it holds up to 4.7GBs of data as compared to 700MB’s for a single CD. External hard disk drives however are becoming the quick backup solutions many people choose because of its ease of use. Software is now available to automatically back up your data routinely. Storage capacities are now up to 400GBs within a small case allowing for portability to off-site locations.
3. RAID Server configurations is another option to protect your data. Hardware RAIDs can protect you from disk failure since data is actually striped across a set of disks improving throughput and protecting the data held on the array against the failure of any individual disk. There are multiple levels of RAID configurations such as RAID 0, 1, 2 and 5 which are the most popular. Each configuration will have its own benefits and drawbacks. Keep in mind, a RAID configuration is more complex and is susceptible to other human administrative errors as well as hardware failure so maintenance and knowledge of the technology is key for this option.
4. DAT and DLT tapes have and continue to be a feasible option for larger amounts of data.
Here is a list of reminders, actionable items for preventing data loss and data recovery.
-Back up regularly. Keep in fireproof safe and/or off-site
-Utilize anti-virus software regularly.
-Periodically check for data integrity within all backups.
-Direct accountability and responsibility to employees for backups.
-Consider using uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) for all important computers especially --systems which require graceful power downs.
-If a data recovery emergency does occur, power the machine down and call IntelliRecovery Data Recovery at 888-995-3282. Do not attempt to run any recovery utilities or continue to power the machine on or off - this will make matters worse and could potentially decrease your chance of recovery.
About IntelliRecovery, Inc.
IntelliRecovery, Inc.(http://www.intellirecovery.com/) is a global data recovery services provider for all types of computer storage media effected by hardware failure, human error, natural disasters, software corruption, and more. With experienced engineers, the latest recovery techniques/technology and a customer service oriented mentality, IntelliRecovery has stepped into the forefront as one of the leading data recovery providers worldwide.
