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How
Valueable Is Your Data
In today's world,
computers are the backbone of nearly every company. When these computers
fail, it's generally not long after that the business will fail.
According to the National Archives & Records Administration in Washington,
D.C., 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 or more
days due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year. That
is a staggering figure, and it really puts the value of data in
perspective. Keep in mind this data doesn't necessarily have to
be multi-million dollar designs, or proprietary software developments,
it can be as simple as Word Documents, Email, customer databases,
spreadsheets, etc. Without this information, it's hard for many
businesses to survive.
If you have
lost your data, the first thing you need to do is remain calm. Taking
your frustration out on employees or co-workers will not help. You
need to consider the actual value of the data. What was lost? How
long would it take you to recreate the data? How long can your business
continue without it? All of these questions and their subsequent
answers help you to put a price tag on the data. What is it going
to cost you if you can't get this information back?
Knowing the
answers to these questions will generally help you to know how to
proceed. When people lose data the first thing they try to do is
make an attempt at getting it back. This may mean having your IT
department work with whatever recovery tools they may have at their
disposel. Unfortunately, there are very few, if any, IT technicians
that are experienced with proper data recovery protocol. If the
data is not that important, or it can easily be recreated, then
by all means make whatever attempts are necessary. However, if the
data is critical to your business, it is vitally important that
you call a data recovery professional right away, even if you decide
not to utilize our services here at ACS Data Recovery, make sure
you contact another reputable company. In many cases, a data recovery
professional is the ONLY option for getting your data back.
Here at ACS
Data Recovery, we know how important the data is to each of our
customers. We exhaust every possible option in order to recover
your data, and we do it as safely as possible in order to not make
the situation any worse than it already is. We may have to perform
a head swap on a hard drive, or we may have to perform two or three
of them before we finally get all the data needed. The point is,
we do whatever it takes. There are many companies out there that
offer rediculously cheap recovery service, but to do the work necessary
it is impossible for their business model to work. Sure it's easy
to get in a hard drive, run a test on it, and five minutes later
say it's unrecoverable. However, in many cases the data is still
perfectly recoverable, but there is no one solution that works every
time in every situation.
If your data
is valueable, make sure you send your crashed media to a data recovery
provider who will go the extra mile for you. Check references, check
out what others have to say about them online, ask questions, and
make sure you feel at ease with them. If your business is down because
of data loss, don't compound the problem by sending it somewhere
that may not have the experience necessary to get your data back.
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