Whether you've been a
longtime resident of Florida or have just moved here recently, you know how
strange the weather can be at times. Due to its location, Florida boasts both
some of the best weather in the United States and some of the worst weather. It
seems like a hurricane hits the state every few years, causing millions of
dollars in property damages due to rain, flooding, and wind. Imagine trying to
keep your data safe when the winds are blowing at over 100 miles per hour and
the storm surge is several feet high. It's enough to strike fear into the heart
of any business owner. Even without factoring in the weather, there are
countless day-to-day disasters that can wreak havoc on your company's computer
systems. It could be a careless employee opening a malicious link that
downloads malware onto the network, a power surge that causes severe damage to
your mainframe, failing hardware that refuses to backup vital systems, or a
computer that refuses to boot up at all. Any of these scenarios can also spell disaster
for a business if they are unable to recover data and bounce back from
disaster.
This is where data recovery companies in Florida come into play. What is data recovery? Simply
put, it's a process by which seemingly damaged or destroyed technology is
accessed in order to retrieve any usable data that might be found on it. It's a
common myth that deleting data removes in completely from a storage device.
What happens in the file associations and various other means by which the
computer finds old data are removed, leaving the data behind. If another
program is installed that needs to use the space, only then is the data
overwritten and lost. Otherwise, it sits waiting to be recovered.
It could be a hard
disk drive, a laptop computer, a tablet, a desktop PC, or any other piece of
computer hardware; if it has stored data on it, that data might be able to be
retrieved in the event the device is unusable. Data recovery experts in Florida
and other states have successfully retrieved data from hardware damaged in
motor vehicle accidents, floods, fires, plane crashes, and many other 'major
disasters'. They also recover data from hard drive crashes, severe malware and
virus infections, and other more common problems that plague computer users who
are not careful.
Data recovery can work
hand-in-hand with IT consulting in Florida. How do they work together? By
utilizing resources from both. For example, IT support can ensure that hardware
and software stay optimally functional, reducing the need for data recovery;
cloud storage and other remote means of accessing data can also be used to
minimize the risk of losing data should a disaster occur. This is ideal for
long-term backups and data storage, but what about short term files or other
data needed for daily operations? What happens if data is on a failed computer
that was unable to save it to the cloud before it stopped working? Or what
happens when an emergency occurs that affects the office and causes widespread
damage to computer hardware, such as a flood or fire? This is where data
recovery can go in. A data recovery expert can retrieve any data that was not
backed up or saved in time, allowing it to be accessed long enough to be saved
onto a backup drive or sent to the cloud. This minimizes the actual loss of data
suffered by a company, allowing them to recover sooner from an accident or
other disaster and get back to business sooner.
