The National Association of Broadcasters held its annual show earlier this month in Las Vegas, Nevada. As the premier show for media and entertainment professionals, the event showcased a lot of the newest technology used in production and recording studios. Unlike CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) 2013 earlier this year, the storage mediadisplay at NAB was designed for commercial applications. And, as more and more recording and production professionals rely on hard disk and solid state storage for their media, it's not surprising there were some surprising developments. 

    While our home office and corporate headquarters is located in Dallas, Texas, many people don't know that 24 Hour Data has data recovery facilities across the U.S., from New York to Los Angeles.   

    Permitting employees to telecommute can reduce costs, but it can increase the chances of a security breech, damages to your server due to viruses and malware, and a data recovery emergency. One way to reduce these risks is through a virtual private network, which protects data transmitted in both directions: from employees' devices to your server and the other way around. 

    As technology advances, do-it-yourself data recovery software improves in its capabilities. But hard disk drives, hybrid drives and solid state drives are also becoming more complex. At the same time, as hard drives increase in capacity, the amount and value of the data stored increases, too. The risks associated with attempting do-it-yourself data recovery may not be worth it. Would you want to risk losing your entire music or movie collecting, potentially thousands of dollars worth of media? Valuable family photos? Or mission critical work files that you brought home because you didn't finish your work at the office?