The Human Side of Data Loss!

Data loss is a bitter reality. Individuals and almost all types of businesses are confronting with it. You never know when its your turn of being a witness of a severe data loss. It is observed that there are a number of causes of losing your important data. Some of these causes are irresistible like floods, earth quakes etc but others can be avoided by implementing appropriate measures of how to prevent data loss.

The human side of data loss is very critical and needs to be addressed adequately. A research in 2000 revealed that 15% of all major data loss incidents took place due to human errors only and they were either caused by not implementing the right backup procedures or having no backup at all.

In many cases the problem starts when the users start out-of-box solutions that may not fit their organizations requirements. Even at large corporations, senior IT persons dont really assess their business or technology needs and this is one of the reasons of their downfall in case of data loss because when they dont know the actual needs, they are unaware of taking proper remedies for their problem.

Human intervention in early stages of data loss can make data recovery process more complicated rather just impossible in some cases. Sometimes, the unknown experimentation of humans to recovery data by re-booting the system again and again and even worst of this happens when they try different recovery utilities to retrieve their data.

Taking regular backup of your data is the common practice to recover data in case of disaster but the sluggish behavior on managers part some times lead to catastrophic circumstances. There is a chance that some are unaware of the proper data backup techniques even the type of media that they use to write their important data files on.

When disaster strikes any business or individual, the normal human reaction is panic. Because the loss of data signifies serious penalty, even the top management start taking inappropriate actions. Wrong buttons get pushed and the situation gets even worst. Sometimes the urge to correct the system in no time can cause serious and irrecoverable situation. IT specialists often are not equipped to deal with crisis or data recovery techniques.

A business success or its failure is highly dependent on the excellence of a professional data recovery company. Users should only take those measures which ensure that the probability of a data loss is minimized not increased.

It is vital to consider that the disaster is embedded in a blend of mechanical failure of media/device and human error, so, too, the retrieval or recovery solution lies in a creative combination of humans and technology. The underlying philosophy of successful data recovery is that technology is something which should be used by optimal use of human brain and knowledge i.e. humans should drive the technology, technology shouldnt drive humans.

M usman Qureshi
Software Engineer and webmaster at http://www.vibranttechsolutions.comemail: usman@vibranttechsolutions.com

Data Recovery Services Explained
Data Recovery is essentially a specialized service supplied by qualified technical companies to recover lost data that is stored on media. Data loss can occur in a number of different environments, the most common being human error. Human error is simply accidental deletion of important files or documents. Other factors such as software/hardware pr...

When Will You Need It?
There are many factors leading to data loss, the most popular and regular factor, which leads to important loss of data, is human error. Unfortunately, this is unavoidable. Human error, being the most common case of data loss, happens very regularly to businesses and individuals in their private lives.In most cases the data loss is not vitally impo...

When Data Recovery Becomes Impossible
Weve all been using computers for a while now and I bet none of us have been spared from at least one data loss related problem in our technical career. Data is so easily losable that youre practically forced to make backups for everything you have, for obvious safety reasons. Data loss can occur due to several reasons, including:- Physical damage ...

Time to Abandon the "Point-in-Time" Backups
In todays world, data and electronic communications are critical to small business success. If your data was to disappear, what would that do to your business? What would a series of data losses cost your business? What great ideas would be gone, never to come back?The most common solution for many small businesses is to use tape devices, hard d...

Data Loss
When faced with a data loss disaster, the first thing most people will try to do is to recover and restore the lost data themselves. Unfortunately, this is not the thing to do, when you turn on and off your system, it can happen sometimes that the lost data is overwritten and this makes it harder for the professional data recovery experts to retrie...

Data Recovery Help - A Complete Data Recovery Solution
No matter what kind of computer you use data recovery is a main concern for everyone. Laptop data recovery, PC data recovery, notebook data recovery all fall in under one roof when it come to data recovery. So what can you do about it?Data Recovery SituationsMost data recovery situations are common to most users like file deletion or damages, viru...

Understanding, Diagnosing, Recovering and Preventing Data Loss
Data loss is a serious issue, which most businesses and individuals will encounter at some point in their digital lives. It can cripple businesses, ruin careers and generally cause a great deal of unnecessary stress. This article will attempt to generalize a strategy for dealing with such scenarios.Understanding Data Loss:Generally data loss can re...