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Laptops that can recover all data in less than a minute

MR GEORGE PAUL, Executive Vice-President, HCL Infosystems Ltd, at the launch of HCL Leaptops with EC2 technology, in Chennai on Thursday. — Bijoy Ghosh

Chennai April 26 HCL has launched `self-healing computers', laptops that can recover all data in less than a minute — a big help if the laptop crashes due to a virus.

Through the `Embedded Continuity and Control (EC2) technology, HCL's laptops are `self-healing computers' that are able to recover all data in less than a minute, said Mr George Paul, Executive Vice-President, HCL Infosystems.

The EC2 technology was designed to minimise the system downtime by protecting the system from unwanted and unpredictable changes of the system configurations, operating system, software setting, parameters settings, caused by viruses, user's errors, system crashes.

The technology was not an alternative to any other security measures such as antivirus, firewall, software update patches and data back up, he said.

A laptop with EC2 technology automatically stores data in a back-up space in the machine and updates a complete range of its own working state at regular intervals. There will be a complete record of all data, including software and user data, residing inside the computer at any given point of time.

For instance, in case of a system crash, malfunction or accidental loss of data, a user can reload the previously recorded image and have the computer working exactly like it was when the image was recorded. HCL now has its `Non-stop series of Leaptops' starting at Rs 27,990.

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