Sometimes a good technician can retrieve data from a hard drive by physically taking it apart and loading it into another machine.

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Through a Web interface, the worker can retrieve data from a database, automatically load the data into a spreadsheet and pivot through the data to analyze it by part and type of problem.

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Awareness Technologies, which offers a program called Laptop Cop, tracks exactly what a person in possession of a laptop is doing and allows customers to retrieve and delete data from the device remotely.

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Metop's suite of instruments retrieve a range of data - from the temperature and water content of the different layers in the atmosphere to the speed of the winds whipping across the ocean, and from the health of the ozone layer to the spread of volcanic ash plumes across the sky.

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As a result, all application data had to be stored in a database server so that the application could retrieve it from any server in the farm.

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The scientist was complaining that his team had to wait a year to get data from devices attached to the bears, and when they hunt down the animals to retrieve the devices, 40% are missing.

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