Iomega is also pushing backup and recovery software to go with the new drives.
For example, Symantec has started to offer Norton Online Backup, a data recovery software.
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The software disk also includes disaster recovery software, but only for the PC platform and not the Mac.
Up to 20 GB of hard drive is reserved for system recovery software.
Dell also purchased backup, replication, and recovery software specialist AppAssure last month.
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The biggest player in laptop recovery is Absolute Software of Vancouver, B.
The government wants vendors to develop encryption software that includes a key recovery mechanism whereby the government could get access to the algorithm to decode a message for law enforcement purposes.
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For the value-consumer requiring only single-PC backup and recovery, Rebit now offers SaveMe Express backup software, which does not include SmartSave.
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MacKeeper is a suite of 16 software utilities including Internet security, file recovery, data encryption and back-up.
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According to the Konza information website, the city wants to attract business process outsourcing, software development, data centres, disaster recovery centres, call centres and light assembly manufacturing industries.
But the Justice Department and the FBI want Congress to pass a quite different bill, one, which would make it easier for them secretly to gain access to suspects' computers in their homes, to gather passwords, to install "recovery devices" and to disable encryption and security software.
Another New Jersey company, CommVault specializes in software for data management: archiving, disaster recovery, migration and so on.
In addition to content-clearing software, LoJack will offer a service in which "recovery specialists" attempt to return lost phones to their owners.
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Many feel that patching tools, a regular and fully automated backup program, and a strong recovery toolset are more effective in dealing with the risk than antivirus software.
Mak expects recovery to start in the fourth quarter as Microsoft intrdoduces new Windows NT software, giving a boost to global personal computer demand.
Through its partnership with Absolute Software, makers of LoJack for Laptops, Samsung will soon embed a theft recovery system right into the the phone's firmware.
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