Sunday, August 12, 2007 - Posts

Data Data everywhere even when you think its gone

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The biggest problem I have faced in IT over the last decade has been loss of data.

I have had the problem at work where servers have crashed and lost data, more often than not due to failure of disks. I have also personally felt the pain in a hard disk losing its partition information, and frequently my wife's laptop dying and windows not being able to boot.

Whilst many businesses have been aware of the criticality of data for a while, data is becoming more critical to everyone. Many people don’t have address books anymore, and if they do, do they contain mobiles, IM addresses, email address etc. If you lose data the inconvenience and the pain is often great.

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