Western Digital’s (WD) My Book World Edition II, My Book Pro Edition II, My Book Premium Edition II external hard drive appliances now come with 2TB (terabyte) of storage. The announcement is further recognition of the explosion of storage capacity requirements due to multimedia content from devices like digital cameras, music players and video recorders.

Western Digital My Book World Edition II

WD’s My Book World Edition II is a remote-access storage system which can be accessed over a network. As a stand alone appliance it does not require a PC to be on. It’s an ideal solution for tasks such as backing up laptop data to one’s home while traveling. From any network (Internet) files on the World Edition II can be accessed for file transfer and files can even be remotely opened, edited and saved. The My Book World Edition II includes professional EMC Retrospect Express backup software for scheduled or on-demand file backup. Extra Data Protection can be provided by using half of the World Edition II’s capacity to mirror data in real time using RAID technology.

Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II and Premium Edition II

WD’s My Book Pro Edition II and Premium Edition II are external hard drive storage appliances for extra storage and data backup protection. The primary difference between the two My Book models is the EMC Retrospect Express backup software with the Pro Edition vs the WD Backup Software with the Premium Edition II. The Pro Edition also comes with a longer three year warranty. For installation flexibility, both units have three methods of connection - ultra-fast FireWire 800, as well as FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. A convenient feature is the capacity gauge allowing space available to be checked at a glance.

Equiinet’s recently launched BackupPilot is a backup product designed for SME and education and particularly to address problems with the backup of laptops which are rapidly overtaking desktop PCs. A suitable backup solution which does not rely on users to manually backup their mobile devices is an imperative for such organizations as revealed by a recent survey of schools by Equiinet. The survey uncovered that most schools do not have a robust policy to protect work data (which includes information such as lesson plans and students e-portfolios) on teachers laptops, relying instead on individuals to remember to manually backup.

With Equiinet’s BackupPilot system, client software is installed on each laptop to automatically perform backups whenever the laptop is connected to the internet. The BackupPilot system is fully automatic once the first full backup has been made (to a removable device which is physically transferred to a remote site), backup data identified and backup schedules created. Further backups which are only of smaller file amendments (compressed and encrypted using 256-bit AES encryption) are transmitted over a broadband connection. Conveniently, backup schedules can be configured and managed at one central location or locally if desired. Normal PC operation is possible while Equiinet’s BackupPilot is running.

Accidentally delete an important text SMS message? Data Doctor have SIM card Data Recovery Software that can recover it. Information that can be retrieved includes deleted contact numbers, unreadable messages and corrupt phone number directories. The software is non-destructive and read only.

Potential purchasers should be aware that they will require a USB SIM card reader or PC/SC Standards based SIM card reader. The software is compatible with Windows XP, 2003, XP Media Center2005, Vista, 2000, NT, ME and 98.
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On their website Consonus have a sobering quote from a recent Gartner report which found that 93% of organizations that experience a significant data loss are out of business within five years. And it is in this sort of environmental awareness of the seriousness of data loss that Consonus Technologies has launched its fully automated, online, remote backup, monitoring and management service.

The iBackup solution has been developed to provide data security and availability independent of company size. The turn key service is focused on the day-to-day activities required to keep a customer’s important data protected and recoverable. This type of service provides a solution for companies to satisfy their own and regulatory requirements for data availability, retention and compliance. Challenges to doing this in-house include skilled resource retention, increasing backup system complexity and of course costs.

After an independent SAS70 audit by Grant Thornton, Consonus announced in February that they had received a Type I SAS certification of the integrity of their facilities and data hosting solutions.

The LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ provides an enormous 2TB (2000GB) capacity with a transparent, built-in RAID 0 array. The disk is equipped with FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 interfaces for data transfer. The unit is compatible with a wide range of operating systems including Mac OS 10.2.8 or later; Mac G4, G5, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

The LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ external storage disk drive can be used to store presentations, archive image banks, work on large-scale audio/video projects, or chain FireWire devices and iLink DV cameras. The new LaCie Shortcut Button conveniently launches any application (backup, music, slideshows, etc.) with just one push. More advanced features are Triple Power Management, a 32MB cache, a thermo-regulated progressive quiet smart fan. Software includes LaCie 1-Click Backup Software, SilverKeeper for automatic backup & file verification (Mac), EMC Retrospect Express HD for Windows and EMC Retrospect Express for Mac.
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IDrive offer 2GB of online backup space for free. Using the service involves downloading and installing the backup application. The software can be configured to automatically backup important files to a specified schedule. The software interface resembles Windows Explorer with the ability to drag and drop files to the online storage. Encryption to 128-bit SSL is available for transfers and storage. There is a web based view, search and restore of backed up data is provided. Multiple user accounts can be created from one administrative login.
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You’ve accidentally deleted music files from your music player and worse yet, managed to re-format the memory while attempting to find them! Most would think that this is no recovery situation however, they are wrong. DiskInternals newly released version of their Music Recovery Software might still be capable of recovering the missing media files.

DiskInternals Music Recovery Software is capable of restoring deleted or corrupted music files from any storage including hard drive, iPod, USB-flash, mp3 players, CD and DVD disk. The software supports most media formats and all file systems including Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

The software provides a “Music Slideshow” feature which shows the sequence of tags and album covers of media files. Meta tags for wma and mp3 media formats are supported. An integrated media player allows, for example, users to listen to detected deleted music files and assess their quality.

R1Soft has released a MySQL data protection add-on module. R1Soft believe that the new module is the first such product for MySQL, aimed at large or frequently changing databases that cannot tolerate downtime or performance decreases during backups. R1Soft use a granular backup approach, allowing databases to be backed up as often as four or five times an hour.

The MySQL add-on module is available as a premium add-on to R1Soft’s flagship CDP Server product for protection of data on both Linux and Windows platforms. Notable features include the ability to execute Bare-Metal restorations for an entire MySQL Server and the ability to back up busy MySQL Servers without interruptions. A user friendly Web interface is provided for administration of the module.