In recent years, data recovery has become a major issue. Businesses servicing the field are now more focused than ever on data recovery, whereas before the focus was on data backup. Indeed, the data protection and recovery markets are multi million dollar industries – and are growing each year.
In the year 2005, Microsoft began offering DPS, a disk to disk back up service built for Windows. Among the vendors who announced for support for DPS, some of the more prominent ones include HP, CA, Dell, Quest Software, CommVault Systems, and Sun Microsystems.
Then, shortly after Microsoft announced their plans to enter the market, Veritas followed suite, with a plan that offered users the opportunity to unite their back up and replication drives so that they could recover their data at any time from their own desktops. This began a trend that other vendors have begun to follow in droves.
Then, Unistal Systems launched a plan to enable data recovery to take place via online service.
Of course, these companies are making tons of dough, because data recovery can be quite costly to the average consumer – which is why it is always a good idea to back up your data on a regular basis. Businesses who lose a significant portion of their data end up having to spend hundreds, if not thousands, to get it recovered. The fact is, in today’s unpredictable world, no one can afford to operate a business without a smart back up and recovery system set in stone way in advance. This might cost a lot of money as well, but it will wind up saving you tons in the event that data loss takes place.
In the event that you have to pay a company to recover your data for you, be sure to make a list of different services and get a quote before you choose which company to go with. You should make sure that whatever company you go with charges you for the recovery of the data – not the amount of data being recovered. Whoever manages your IT should assess the risk of security before you send any hard drives out of your building to have data recovered – if that data contains sensitive information, you may want to evaluate whether it might be better to have the job done in house.