By Debby Jones
 Out of sight, out of mind can be an interesting phenomenon. An example of this is a large piece of furniture, such as an armoire, thats been standing in a hallway for years and causing people to curse and move around it, or bumps their toes or their heads as they rushed by. Finally someone in the household gets fed up and has the armoire moved out of the hallway and into the garage. Problem solved!
Or is it? Just because that bulky armoire has been moved does not mean it is not taking up the exact same amount of space; it is just doing it somewhere else. Someday in the not-too-distant future somebodys going to get mad because they have been having trouble getting the car into the garage and probably yell at the person who moved the armoire there. It is still causing the same problem!
In the computer world, file fragmentation has always been a serious problem needing to be constantly addressed. When it comes to servers, fragmentation becomes much more of a problem simply due to the high number |
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By Debby Jones
 Be it a slip of the finger or an accidental move of a mouse, almost everyone has experienced that dreaded feeling of deleting something that we should not have. Perhaps even more astonishing, however, is the fact that such things need never happen. There is a whole class of data protection software out there which will undelete many of our most egregious and painful mistakes. The big question then, is why doesn't everyone have such software on their systems?
It is generally acknowledged that there are several classes of software that you should never be without if you own a computer. Defrag and anti-virus software are obvious necessities. Anti-spyware software is now becoming just as important.
Certainly, data protection software has been around for a long time now, but a casual survey of almost any group of computer users will show that virtually no one has such software installed on their systems. And, this is even the case with big networks, where the value of a lost document could mean serious dollars lost.
The usual reason seems to be |
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