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Disaster Recovery

Recovery Manager

Company: Winternals
Pricing: $29 per workstation; $299 per server; $69 per concurrent administrative user.
Creating a restore point for machines running Windows has be a feature since Windows ME. It has been developed with the advent of Windows 2000 and XP. Basically it creates a "snapshot" of the system and then uses that image to roll back to in case anything should go wrong. ...
 

BitZipper

Company: Bitberry Software
Pricing: $24.95
It would seem that compression and encryption are fast becoming the best of friends. BitZipper is the latest in a line of compression applications trying to eat away at WinZip's dominance by adding high-grade encryption into the deal.

The software prides itself on its ability to deal with more ...

 

Intego Personal Backup X (Disaster Recovery group test)

Company: Intego
Pricing: $59.95

This next solution is ideal for publishers and media houses that rely on Macintosh computers for their production activities. Intego Personal Backup X allows the user to back up their critical files, clone volumes and synchronize files between two volumes.

 

DiskNet Pro 4

Company: Reflex Magnetics
Pricing: $20-$45 per seat

A lot of companies are shouting that the next big threat to organizations will come from within – a problem that security professionals have known about for a very long time. As long as people are fallible, they will be tempted to look at things they shouldn't or steal things ...

 

Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition (Disaster Recovery group test)

Company: Symantec Corporation
Pricing: from $15.40 (250-499 nodes)

Symantec Ghost Enterprise Edition is an disk imaging solution. It does, however, allow incremental backup of all your client computers' data, providing the ability to restore any networked computer that has crashed. This includes restoration of the operating system and settings, all applications that it was running and all data ...

 

Backup for Workgroups (Disaster Recovery group test)

Company: Lockstep Systems, Inc.
Pricing: from $299 (3-client pack)

This solution also delivers backup and restore and, unlike the previous solution, is designed with the smaller workgroup environment in mind. With the initial installation setting up a server, it also provides a centralized repository. In addition Lockstep advise an optional mirror backup off-site to ensure a complete recovery is ...

 

O&O UnErase

Company: O&O Software GmbH
Pricing: $45

The problem of recovering accidentally deleted files was solved largely by the implementation of the recycle bin in Windows - allowing users simply to select 'Restore' from the right-click menu. However, there are a number of users that will, without thinking about what they are doing, automatically empty the recycle ...

 

Cyber Adversary Characterization

Company: Syngress
Pricing: $49.95

A book about the inner workings of the hacker's mind would not be complete without mentioning the world's most famous hacker, Kevin Mitnick. This book does not disappoint in that respect. This book deals with getting inside the mind of a hacker. It a kind of "know your ...

 

Altiris Client Recovery Solution (Disaster Recovery group test)

Company: Altiris, Inc.
Pricing: from $70 per node (99 nodes)

This solution provides remote installation, backup and restore capabilities from a central console. Altiris Client Recovery Solution ensures that users can be back at work swiftly should they experience a system crash or virus damage. It requires 30Mb of hard disk space and a minimum of 150MHz processor power on ...

 

Easy Recovery Lite (Disaster Recovery group test)

Company: Ontrack
Pricing: $89

Easy Recovery Lite is just one of Ontrack's solutions for recovering data. This solution does not repair lost or corrupt computer hardware settings, nor does it repair registry and configuration settings, but it does concentrate on data recovery. With an emergency boot disk to hand, even when you cannot access ...