Recovery: Definition and additional resources from ZDNet

See backup & recovery, checkpoint/restart, recovery console, bootable disk and tape backup.

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Weekend Gadget Guidance: Benchmark your PC, free: Free application PC Wizard is a portable tool that analyzes and benchmarks your Windows PC. On the simple side, the 'Wiz gives you an in-depth look at your hardware and system specs. But for power users like those on ZDNet, PC Wizard's neat features -- such as...; Tags: PC, Tool, Desktops, Productivity, Hardware, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Paragon Drive Backup Server Edition (msi): Setting the new industry standard in affordable backup solutions for SMBs. Why pay more? While the growth of a business is a positive sign of success, it also means more electronic data to protect and greater consequences if it’s lost. Our newest Drive Backup 9.0 Server Edition offers the highest...; Tags: Paragon Software, Backup Server, Server, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Backups, Disaster Recovery, Data Management; Software downloads 2008-07-18
USB Digital Media Data Recovery (exe): Download Portable mp4 player songs recovery to undelete Mp3 photo songs, images, music, and digital snaps from thumb drive, pen drive, external hard disk, removable drive, compact flash memory card, multimedia card, memory stick, smart media, SD card or equivalent removable media. MP4 audio player files rescue software can restore...; Tags: Multimedia, Photograph, USB, Drive Recovery Software, Flash Memory, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; Software downloads 2008-07-18
Paragon Drive Backup (msi): Our feature-rich software easily restores your system whenever disaster strikes, and optimizes storage utilization to keep your system running at top speed. Along with our reliable entire disk backup, this powerful application provides you with a new approach to file backup and enhanced recovery tools. Use its Smart Backup to...; Tags: Disk, Paragon Software, Backups; Software downloads 2008-07-17
Transitive's magic - Solaris/SPARC Apps and Hyper-V: In the past, I posted about one of the important requirements of the next generation datacenter NGDC, the ability to consolidate diverse applications on a unified hardware platform. Both IBM (see What would a next generation datacenter look like?) and HP see HP and the next generation data center and...; Tags: Application, Sun Sparc, Transitive QuickTransit, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Servers, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-16

Data Gini (exe): Data Gini recovers lost data due to corruption, formatted hard disk, dire hard drive, deleted documents. Supported formats are jpg, pdf, mp3, avi, gif, mov, doc etc If you are looking for an emergency recovery solution, DataGini is perfect one. It is light and it is right away available to...; Tags: Hard Drive, Deepali Softwares; Software downloads 2008-07-16
Smart Image Recovery (exe): Smart Image Recovery can restore jpeg, png, gif files even after disk formatting. The program is unique for it does depend on media type or its file system, it scans the disc to detect the lost images and performs it easily. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Recovery, Smart PC Solutions; Software downloads 2008-07-16
R-Studio for Mac (dmg): R-Studio for Mac is powerful and cost-effective data recovery software for Apple lovers. R-Studio for Mac is specially designed for Mac OS environment and recovers files from HFS/HFS+ Macintosh, FAT/NTFS Windows, UFS1/UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris) and Ext2FS/Ext3FS Linux partitions. It also recovers data on disks, even if their partitions are formatted, damaged...; Tags: Data Recovery, Apple Macintosh, Disk, File System, Desktops, Hardware; Software downloads 2008-07-15
Memeo AutoBackup Premium (exe): In only 60 seconds you can set it up and begin protecting your most important files. Backup to external hard drives, another computer on your network, Memeo iDisk Online Storage, USB storage devices, or your iPod simultaneously. No scheduling is required, all backups happen instantly and automatically. And once a...; Tags: Memeo, Storage, Storage Management, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software; Software downloads 2008-07-15
Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs: Kris Kaspersky, author of numerous books on reverse engineering and software engineering, will be presenting his research on remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs at the upcoming Hack in the Box Security Conference in Malaysia. If his proof of concept code consisting of JavaScript or TCP/IP packet attacks on...; Tags: CPU, Intel Corp., Processors, Security, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-14
Recovery Pole (exe): Recovery Pole can recover deleted files and formatted or corrupt drives. It works with hard drives, digital cameras, USB drives, ZIP disks, CompactFlash cards, SmartMedia, and Memory Sticks. Recovery Pole is simple; no technical skill is required. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Deepali Softwares, Memory, Flash Memory, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-07-14
Collectify Home Inventory (exe): Snap digital photos of your home's contents, drag the photos into Collectify Home Inventory, give the objects a name and a value and you're done. Have peace of mind knowing that should there ever be a loss, you're already on the road to a fast recovery. Inventory your objects room...; Tags: Insurance, Photograph, E-mail, Online Communications; Software downloads 2008-07-14
From stunned outrage to stunned laughter in two seconds: From stunned outrage to stunned laughter in two secondsFaking Presidential Press Passes is Cool?I don't really get the whole context of this story, but it seems to me that you are actively engaged in developing fake press passes for presidential events. Isn't that a crime? Could it place...; Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, Backups, stunned outrage, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-07-12
ATI acquisition costs AMD another $880 million: ATI acquisition costs AMD another $880 millionFire HectorThat's where they need to start. This guy has a terrible, terrible track record and it's showing its colors now. AMD has some AMAZING engineers and talent. Probably some of the most talented processor engineers around but bad management =...; Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, Operational accounting, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GPU, processor, acquisition; Discussion threads 2008-07-11
Password Recovery Bundle (exe): Password Recovery Bundle 2007 is a complete suite of password recovery tools that allows you to recover all kinds of lost or forgotten passwords instantly, very easy to use and works with most popular instant messengers, e-mail clients, and Windows Vista. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Password, Recovery, Top Password Software, Password Recovery Bundle 2007; Software downloads 2008-07-10
PowerGuard Recovery (exe): PowerGuard Recovery recovers the original Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and all other files (audio files, other presentations, and fonts) from any PowerGuard presentation EXE file. The presentation recovery time is about same as the time necessary to start the protected presentation. Please remember that you must be able to run the...; Tags: Recovery, Presentation, eLock Soft, PowerGuard Recovery; Software downloads 2008-07-10
Live Webcast: CIO Strategies for Retention and Deletion of Email and Electronic Information: Over the past two years, major changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure FRCP and the increase in state and federal compliance regulations have created new challenges for companies as they struggle to manage email retention and deletion policies. To successfully maintain compliance and protect their...; Tags: Strategy, Webcast, Compliance, MessageOne, E-mail, Online Communications; Webcasts 2008-07-10
Measuring IT: "Operational Health": The subject of IT metrics is an important and sometimes controversial topic. Regardless of one's perspective, metrics do serve the valuable function of connecting business goals to IT operations. A Forrester Research report, written by Craig Symons and titled "The Five Essential Metrics...; Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-07-09
Protect VBA Code (exe): Protect VBA Code protects VBA projects from password cracking in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and Project files. There are several password recovery tools on the Internet somebody could misuse to get your code if you protect it with a VBA password regardless of its length...; Tags: Password, Microsoft VBA, Dombaj Soft, VBA Bypassing/Backdoor Technology, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development; Software downloads 2008-07-09
SecurePack Recovery (exe): SecurePack Recovery recovers the original Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and all other files from any SecurePack Archive file. The files are recovered regardless of the presentations security level, the host application PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer and the existence, length and character set of the password to extract. The presentation recovery time...; Tags: Recovery, Microsoft PowerPoint, Presentation, eLock Soft, SecurePack Recovery, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; Software downloads 2008-07-09