Every year, Symantec, the makers of popular antivirus and security software for PCs, releases a Disaster Preparedness Survey. And, although the cost of lost data for small-to-mid-size businesses keeps going up, the study continues to show that businesses do not have the data protection they need.  According to the study, the median cost of downtime after a server crash, failure or other data recovery emergency is $12,500 per day. Even so, half of the survey respondents do not have a disaster preparedness plan in place. Even more startling, only 23 % of respondents report backing up their data daily; less than half back it up weekly or more frequently. That means about half of all SMBs don't back up their data at all.

New York City is well-known as the “city that never sleeps,” which makes it especially fitting that 24 Hour Data is opening an office in the location. (In case you didn't get the tie-in, the data recovery specialists here at 24 Hour Data never rest, either.) Whatever time call us with a data recovery emergency, a live human being is available to answer your call, and our data recovery specialists work 'round-the-clock in order to offer some of the fastest recovery times in our industry. Why New York for 24 Hour Data? With our main office in Dallas, Texas, 24 Hour Data has been offering data recovery services to the Dallas metroplex area and beyond, with clients spanning from New York to Los Angeles. When the opportunity arose to open a brand-new, state-of-the-art data recovery facility in Midtown Manhattan at 90 Park Avenue, between E. 32 and E. 33rd Streets, we couldn't resist.

If your IT department has recently switched your company over to a  virtualization solution for your servers, it might be time to re-visit your choice of emergency data recovery service providers, too. You want to make sure that your data recovery service is well-versed in all forms of VMware and can recover your virtualized data as well as any data from a hard drive, RAID array or other storage medium. Here are some tips when it comes to choosing a new data recovery service for your virtualized server farm.

Today's busy executives aren't always tied to their company's server. Often, rather than connecting to the network or NAS device, they work locally on their laptop. This is especially true during travel, when the security of WiFi networks may not be guaranteed. If you're a professional executive, business owner or CEO, your whole life may be stored on your laptop. Regular back-ups are critical. At CES 2012, Rebit, Inc. announced a new continuous, automatic back-up with built-in redundancy. The hybrid cloud back-up solution makes primary back-ups to a local NAS or USB drive, with redundancy backed up automatically to the cloud for access from anywhere with Internet capabilities. Cloud back-up protects data from: - Natural disasters like fires or floods, where a laptop, tablet or hard disk drive could be damaged beyond recognition, and even beyond the capabilities of the best data recovery service - Theft or loss, where there is no hard drive available to attempt data recovery  Data Recovery on the Road