Data Recovery Service and Software Experts

A recent article in Forbes Magazine shares some of the results of a Ponemon Institute study done on data privacy breaches that occurred when storage devices are in the possession of third-party data recovery and repair firms.

According to Forbes: The Ponemon study surveyed 636 information technology professionals who had used data-recovery services or had knowledge of them. Of the 83% of respondents whose organizations had at some point lost their customers’ sensitive data, 19% said they had experienced a data breach when they hired a third-party data-recovery firm.

Larry Ponemon, author of the study is quoted saying, “Companies are trusting their data to third parties without a lot of vetting. These are people who could be incompetent or even criminal. The risk is very real.”

As the worldwide leader in data recovery, DriveSavers has taken extraordinary measures to protect customer data by investing in a state-of-the art network, security audit reports conducted by independent agencies, and annual visits and assessments by the U.S. Department of Defense. Only DriveSavers provides the following security enhancements to customers.

SAS 70 Type II Certification
DriveSavers is the only data recovery company in the world that is SAS 70 Type II compliant, the Corporate Industry’s standard for an overall control structure. Unlike Type I, Type II certification verifies that our data hosting control objectives and control activities are in place, suitably designed, enforced and operating effectively to achieve all desired security control objectives.

Certified Cisco® Self-Defending Network
At the heart of our certified secure data recovery environment is a Cisco® Self-Defending Network, protected by a “defense-in-depth” architecture that includes firewalls, intrusion protection systems, managed security services and 24/7 real-time monitoring. Verified in SAS 70 Level II security audit testing to be “a formidable defense” for the information and data that it hosts, the network meets stringent security requirements and audits mandated by corporate clients and government agencies

Every aspect of our facility and network is secure enough to protect personal and confidential data from security breach during the data recovery process. In addition to providing the highest level of preventative data security in the data recovery industry today, DriveSavers offers a High Security Service that adheres to US Government protocols and a Forensics Service that supports law enforcement agencies and other legal entities in the United States and abroad. DriveSavers is also compliant with HIPAA, SOX, GLBA and DAR data security protocols.

The read the entire Forbes article, click here:
http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/05/data-recovery-privacy-technology-cio-network-breaches.html

In Microsoft Windows operating system, you can create software RAID 5 (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) stripe sets with the parity partitions. RAID 5 stripe sets have striping data with the parity information across several disks in 64 KB (Kilobyte) stripes.

In the initialization stage of making stripe set with the parity, Windows calculates parity information for every 64 KB stripe. But in some situations, if you use stripe set during initialization, you might encounter RAID failure and critical data loss situations. At this point, you are required to go for data recovery to get your valuable data back.

You are not repressed by the Microsoft Windows Disk Administrator from reformatting the stripe set and then instantly using volume while the initialization process is still going on. Windows Server also doesn’t repress you from using the volume, which is being salvaged during the regeneration after the disk failure.

This is due to the fact that FTDISK drive ensures that all the changes made to disk are mirrored in parity block. The driver examines all synchronization issues including writing of data catching up with initialization of parity.

However, while initializing or regenerating the volume, this is “exposed”, in other words, when the drive failure takes place while initializing the stripe set with the parity, you would lose your whole set. This occurs only after initialization of the stripe set, which you’ve any fault tolerance. The same procedure takes place with the bad sectors. The sector sparing isn’t allowed until after the initialization is complete.

When you select to use volume during the regeneration or initialization, you run into the hazard of losing all of your valuable data from hard drive volume if the initialization process fails halfway. In such situations, you are required to opt for hard drive recovery solutions to get your valuable data back. It is the process of retrieving lost, missing and inaccessible data from affected storage media, which can not be accessed in normal way.

Recovery is best possible with the help of raid data recovery software in such situations. These applications are capable of handling most of the logical data loss situations and allow you to carry out recover on your own. Advanced and effective scanning mechanisms are used by these tools to retrieve all of your valuable and mission critical data.

April 13, 2009 ( PowerHomeBiz ) - Utrecht, Netherlands  - Stellar Information Systems, the industry’s leading and most advanced provider of data recovery products and services has acquired 100% equity of RSE Data Recovery Services Netherlands for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition helps Stellar in its mission to service customers across the globe. Prior to the acquisition; Stellar was providing data recovery services from 12 locations in North America and Asia.

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“We are delighted about this acquisition, which will further pave the way for our growth in the European market. Stellar would now also be able to serve its MNC customers with European presence more effectively. This acquisition offers us an excellent opportunity to tap into the knowledge and experience of RSE Data Recovery and springboard our growth plans.” informed Mr. Sunil Chandna, CEO, Stellar Information Systems Ltd.

“We have been offering data recovery services to European customers for over 10 years. We will be bringing in invaluable market knowledge and expertise. This acquisition will be invaluable to the development & growth of Stellar and will bring in lot of value to the customers of both the companies,” commented Ernst Eder, COO, RSE Data Recovery Services.