Tips on data recovery vendor selection for a SME,large organization

Define all the types of recovery you are interested in-
- Zip disk recovery
- Floppy disk recovery
- Hard disk data recovery tools
- Recovery disks (HP recovery disks,Compaq recovery disks etc)
- Data center disaster recovery planning
Have a outsourcing policy (see tips on outsourcing data recovery)(We recommend a mix of local and outsourced (in data recovery in India,data recovery in NY,data recovery in Houston,data recovery in London)
Do not have more than 5 or less than 3 data recovery vendors
If you are a SME,we recommend you insist on a fixed rate for each data recovery
If you are a large corporation,we recommend you sign an annual data recovery outsourcing contract with at least three vendors to handle all disk drive recovery software and services
Insist on post 24 / 7 data recovery support and a disk drive software warranty. This is very essential as the recovered data may seem to be alright at first but may backfire later