Traditionally, a firewall is an area that prevents a rapidly growing fire from spreading out of control, beyond the marked out boundaries.

A properly configured and sufficiently powerful server installation can facilitate collaborative working, efficient communications and informed decision making.

IT support contracts should be complete and transparent, and should not confuse you with obscure wording. If there is some unavoidable legalese that you don't understand, discuss it with your IT support contractor and get clarif...

Forensic computer investigations seek to gather evidence for determining whether computer systems have been used for unlawful or unauthorized activities. The evidence can reside in computers, storage devices and the network.

What are clean rooms? Why is clean room data recovery important? We look at these issues first.

Digital data in today’s world is a very precious resource. It represents valuable information that has been collected painstakingly and is very difficult to replace, or at least it will cost a lot of time and money to get replac...

When modern day computers were first invented, a single computer was the size of a room and it took a very long time to perform each and every operation. However, with time, technology underwent immense development. In order to ...

Information technology is developing very fast. The rapid introduction of new processors over the next few years would necessitate more efficient data storage devices, for the magnetic and optical storage media currently in use,...

Nowadays, we see computers everywhere from offices to laboratories to government organisations. The most popular ones among the computers are the desktop PCs and these tend to be more affordable for individuals rather than lapto...

Let’s face it. Life’s full of ups and downs. It’s full of uncertainties. Just like your precious data. If anything, data stability is not permanent. In fact, more often than not, data drives tend to crash and burn and leave you ...

Logical rather than mechanical failure accounts for most cases of data loss. Understanding logical failure can save you a lot of money. It’s a fact that most people do not understand the difference between logical and mechanical...

Privacy has always been an issue from time immemorial. However, the era of computers seems to have taken this issue to greater heights. Back in the 80s, all you had to do to make sure no one saw your confidential files or papers...

The data storage industry is changing. People i.e. personal users and commercial enterprises are looking for faster and reliable data storage methods. The demand to save and store more data in less space has gone up and the resu...

Data recovery is still a relatively new concept in the UK, despite the widespread use of digital data everywhere, and the presence of some of the topmost data recovery professionals of the world. Disaster recovery, therefore, is...

Nowadays backing up data has become a popular way of keeping data safe. But many people ignore the same, as they believe that the process is too irksome and tedious. For most home users, CDs have been the only affordable means o...

Remote backup is fast becoming an alternative to traditional backup procedures. Most businesses do not rely on online remote backup as a single source for storage of critical data, but instead use it in addition to traditional b...

In today’s economy that is totally driven by information technology, no company can survive without leveraging the power of computers in its operations. This is because the latter are formidable enabling tools. An organisation c...

An iPod is a small and compact portable digital device that is used for storing, playing and recording audio or audiovisual files. It was designed by Apple Computers Company in 2001, and is very attractive to look at.

You suspect one of your employees to be accessing sensitive information and using his e-mail account to transmit the information to a third party. However, using your internal IT managers you are not able to gather substantiated...

Re-obtaining data which has been lost due to a physical damage to the digital storage device which contained it, is called ‘physical’ data recovery. Strangely enough, while the factors that can cause it are much more obvious tha...