With the development of technology, both data storage industry has been improved greatly. But, meanwhile, with data storage increasingly advanced and diverse, data recovery is meeting more and more fresh challenges. This post will reveal 6 of them.
In the contemporary era, data is all-pervasive, which unquestionable makes our lives much more colorful and convenient. However, at the same time, we will stay in the panic of data loss as data is prone to corruption and loss for a variety of reasons. For instance, a simple virus can kill your data in a breeze. Therefore, it is a permanent task to make consistent and regular data backup, such as backing up PST file to avoid damaged Outlook data.
Irrespective of the real reasons of data loss, the next step must be data recovery. To be honest, nowadays, all industries involving data have been far more potent than before. Nevertheless, it is the potent data storage technology that makes data recovery all the more difficult in case of data loss. Mounting new challenges facing data recovery are emerging, such as cloud, virtualization, and encryption, diverse data storage device like solid state drive, diversified mobile device, and big storage tech like RAID. Thereinafter, we will discuss about each in detail.
1. Cloud Storage
When it comes to cloud storage service, many users will give it a lot of kudos. It is indeed bringing up a lot of convenience and benefits to our data storage and data backup. However, since by this means, your data will be actually controlled by the service vendor, it refers to that once you suffer data loss, data recovery will surely go through the service vendor. Yet, many vendors won’t let you know the detailed configurations about their tech, which will of course make data recovery harder.
2. Virtualization
Virtualization has been familiar to many users, such as VR tech, multiple virtualization systems on one PC and so on. There is no denying that it is surely beneficial to our data deals. But, it also makes data recovery tougher. More specifically, it will bring myriad new things in data recovery, like deleted virtual disks, deleted virtual machines, which are more complex than common recovery. Also, in a virtual environment, one piece of physical hardware will control many virtual machines. In this situation, if this hardware malfunctions, all the virtual machines will be corrupt, which will lead to much more serious data loss.
3. Encryption
Today, encryption is no longer limited in working in software level. It can directly work on hardware devices. Plus, so as to secure data more effectively, encryption tools keep developing various brand new, sophisticated and advanced algorithms to encrypt data. In the meantime, it also increases the difficulty of data recovery. It is because that data recovery will surely demands to decrypt the data, which can be much tougher than before.
4. Solid State Drive
Unlike the traditional mechanical hard disk drives, solid state drives do not have any moving parts. This kind of drive works entirely depending on electronics and pretty exquisite algorithms. Although it has multiple advantages, like high speed, low power consumption, light weight and high resistance to shock, etc. However, it doesn’t mean that it is able to be immune from data corruption or loss. Once data loss occurs to it, data recovery will be considerably time-consuming in that recovery specialists will need to research the solid state drive algorithms, which is a matter of necessity in restoring data.
5. Mobile Devices
As we all know, currently, accessing data is no longer restricted on computer. We can read and write data directly in mobile devices, such as smartphones, cameras, tablet computers and so on. Nevertheless, with more mobile devices capability to access data, data recovery is also becoming more complex. It is because that data is much more susceptible to corruption. Also, data corruption on varying devices requires different recovery methods.
6. Big Storage
Last but not least, big storage is also a great challenge facing data recovery. As we all know, no matter individuals or businesses become increasingly dependent on data storage, meanwhile desiring for more storage space. Thereby, here come a lot of big storage technologies, like RAID (redundant array of independent disks), which permits users to attach more hard disks to procure additional storage. But, it also makes data recovery harder. For instance, due to the drives in a RAID array are mutually connected to each other, data loss on one drive will still be relevant to the others. Thus, data recovery will definitely be all the more difficult.
Author Introduction:
Shirley Zhang is a data recovery expert in DataNumen, Inc., which is the world leader in data recovery technologies, including sql corruption and outlook repair software products. For more information visit www.datanumen.com