Kroll Ontrack Announces Seventh Annual Top Ten List of Data Disasters

Epsom, UK (PRWEB) December 13, 2010

Kroll Ontrack, the leading provider of data recovery, information management and legal technology products and services, has announced its light-hearted look at the top ten data disasters from 2010.

“Data loss situations continue to run the gamut in terms of when, where and how they happen, and the causes of loss can greatly vary. While every data loss situation is different, an experienced data recovery provider with the right tools, techniques and expertise can help ensure as much critical data as possible is recovered,” said Robert Winter, chief engineer, Ontrack Data Recovery, Kroll Ontrack. “With cutting-edge hard drive recovery tools and processes backed by 25 years of experience in recovering data from media that are severely physically damaged, Ontrack Data Recovery engineers have recovered customers’ data following some of this year’s worst disasters.”

2010 Top Ten List of Data Disasters Compiled by Kroll Ontrack

10. A square peg in a round hole

When a computer novice’s laptop battery died, he reached behind his desk, grabbed what he thought was the laptop charger and shoved the power cable into his laptop. Unfortunately, it was a power cord for a different device, and he fried his machine.

9. Double data recovery

A customer required the restoration of several archived tapes, and the Kroll Ontrack Tape Services team promptly restored the data and returned it on six external HDDs. The customer backed-up the data on six additional HDDs and stored the original HDDs in a fireproof safe. They started to use the data they needed from the backup HDDs, but somebody had accidentally overwritten some of the data. “Not to worry!” they thought. “We can simply use the Kroll Ontrack HDDs!” However, when these HDDs were connected, they discovered that rather than copying the data, they had actually moved the data, and there was nothing on the HDDs. Thankfully, Kroll Ontrack still had the original tapes and recovered the entire data for the second time.

8. Keeping a family member’s memory alive

A woman visiting her father to assist with his medical treatments became the victim of a thief, who entered the hospital room where the visitor had her belongings and stole a laptop that once belonged to the woman’s daughter. Sadly, the woman visitor had recently lost her daughter to cancer. News of the crime hit the airwaves immediately leading to a speedy arrest and recovery of the stolen laptop. However, the hard disk had been wiped. Kroll Ontrack contacted the family to assist and was able to recover 90 percent of the family’s only photos of their daughter.

7. Meat the experts

A hard drive recently arrived for Ontrack Data Recovery from a butcher shop packed in Styrofoam, mysteriously together with the remnants of a cured ham. After a thorough degreasing of the case, the hard drive was sent to the cleanroom with suspected mechanical failure. Thankfully, all the data was recovered, partly due to the fact that the client had followed Ontrack Data Recovery expert advice to preserve the drive in its found state and adequately protect the drive in transit. The presence of the ham remains an enigma.

6. Up in the air

A frequent traveller was enjoying an espresso while waiting for a plane home. He put his laptop case on the floor at the espresso bar and forgot to collect it. The airport police were notified of the unattended luggage, and while the traveller was on his plane, the laptop was detonated to ensure it was not a security threat.

5. Buckle up

A businesswoman, late for work, placed her briefcase on her car roof while she secured her coffee in her cup holder and her child in his car seat. Anxious to get on the road, the woman buckled up and quickly backed out of her garage, sending her briefcase, with laptop inside, soaring off the roof just in time for the front wheels to crush it.

4. Laptop litter box

A woman left her Mac charging on the floor of her house for a few hours. She returned to discover a liquid on the keyboard and a sheepish kitten playing in the corner.

3. Advocate for Africa

A man quit his job to fulfill his lifelong dream of travelling to Africa to photograph poverty. After spending several months taking pictures, he moved back home to develop and sell the photos to businesses, bringing focus to the need for human aid in Africa. Unfortunately, an apartment fire erupted, but luckily the fireman managed to grab the computer before it was charred. While rushing down the fire ladder, the computer was dropped. Despite two devastating accidents, Ontrack Data Recovery engineers recovered 100 percent of the photos.

2. The ants go marching in

A flood in Europe resulted in a computer being submerged in river and rain water for more than two days. The flood water was not the drive’s only problem. When the drive arrived at the Ontrack Data Recovery cleanroom, an ant, who tried to escape drowning in the flood, was found hanging from the head of the drive. Rigorous cleanroom techniques resulted in a recovery of most of the drive’s data; however, the ant could not be saved.

1. Laptops are not waterproof

Relaxing on a beach, a gentleman had taken his laptop on his holiday to stay up-to-date on e-mails. When the midday temperatures started to soar, he decided to go for a swim. Wary of leaving his laptop unattended, he popped it into a plastic bag so it would not get wet and went for a dip – laptop and all. The bag did not prove as durable as he hoped: the laptop got soaked and he lost his data.

For the complete Top Ten Data Disasters list, and to hear samples of phone calls relating to the top five disaster scenarios, please visit http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/data-disaster-2010.

Through its Ontrack Data Recovery products and services, Kroll Ontrack is the largest, most experienced and technologically advanced provider of data recovery services and products worldwide. Using its hundreds of proprietary tools and techniques, Ontrack Data Recovery solutions help businesses and consumers recover lost or corrupted data from all types of operating systems and media and storage devices through its do-it-yourself, remote and in-lab capabilities. Kroll Ontrack offers a free initial consultation for customers experiencing a data loss.

For more information about Kroll Ontrack and its Ontrack Data Recovery services and solutions, visit http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/.

About Kroll Ontrack Inc.

Kroll Ontrack provides technology-driven services and software to help legal, corporate and government entities as well as consumers manage, recover, search, analyse, produce and present data efficiently and cost-effectively. In addition to its award-winning suite of software, Kroll Ontrack provides hard drive data recovery, data destruction, paper and electronic discovery, document review, computer forensics, secure information services, ESI and jury consulting, and trial presentation services. Kroll Ontrack is the technology services division of Kroll Inc., the global risk consulting company. Kroll is a subsidiary of Altegrity, an industry-leading provider of information solutions.

For more information about Kroll Ontrack and its offerings please visit:

http://www.krollontrack.co.uk; http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk

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Backup Generators Indispensible Business Commodity During Natural Disasters

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 21, 2011

In the wake of a natural disaster that is being hailed as the worst crisis for Japan since World War II, millions of Japanese citizens are learning just how much havoc an unexpected event can wreak. Having backup generators in place could have averted some of the devastating after effects that resulted from the earthquake and tsunami. In particular, it could have insulated them from the widespread power outages. Aaron Equipment Company, a leading provider of new, used and reconditioned process equipment, including backup generators, is encouraging American businesses to learn from the situation in Japan by assessing their own disaster recovery plans.

Earlier this week, the Bloomberg news service reported that millions in Japan were still without power five full days after a crippling earthquake and tsunami rocked the city of Tokyo. The official count of electrical outages was about 1.3 million households. To make matters worse, in an effort to save electricity, on March 14, Tokyo Electric announced that it would be starting scheduled power outages in parts of the greater Tokyo area. Needless to say, the economy in the Japanese nation is at a virtual standstill.

That same day, the Air Self-Defense Forces prepared for the worst at a nuclear power plant in the north of Tokyo by transporting generators there. As the world watches, they can only hope that these after-the-fact initiatives dont prove to be a case of too little too late. They can also take heed from Japans plight and arm themselves with a backup generator now before such a calamity strikes closer to home.

Disasters like the tsunami in Japan and Hurricane Katrina are a wakeup call to all business owners. They can lead to extended periods of time without utility power that knock out a company for days, even weeks, explains Aaron Equipment Company spokesperson Patrick Paden. But even everyday events like thunderstorms, unusual weather, brownouts and blackouts can wreak devastation on a businesss productivity. Having an emergency / stand-by / back-up power generator set installed can keep a company running business as usual under even the most unusual of circumstances. A generator set can run an entire facility as well as its servers, computers, phone systems, lights, air conditioners, machinery and all its electrical devices.

Business owners who are taking a second look at their own disaster readiness in light of the situation in Japan can see all of the used generators, new generators and automatic transfer switches Aaron Equipment Company has to offer online at http://www.aaronequipment.com/UsedEquipment/Generators.html. For more information on the best generator to meet a particular business need, contact Patrick Paden at (630) 350-2200.

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Digitalrep Upgrades its Infrastructure to Protect Against Disasters

Portland, OR (PRWEB) March 12, 2012

Digitalrep LLC announced today that is has made significant infrastructure upgrades, together with new cloud services that further improve the companys capability to store and secure its customers critical data with great efficiency and particularly, in the case of a disaster that could cause a long term electrical outage or destroy a facility.

Natural disasters can cause disruption to any business to all or part of any organizations operations, affecting an immediate loss of important data, revenue, or both. The sheer magnitude of recent disasters, including floods, wind storms, and the like has demonstrated that many companies are simply unprepared, and has helped drive a fundamental re-thinking of comprehensive disaster recovery and continuity plans throughout the industry.

Digitalrep recently deployed the Hewlett-Packard Companys Systems Insight Manager in all of its servers HP Proliants which enables the company to proactively monitor server health, and to identify predictive failures before they actually happen. Other investments made recently by Digitalrep include the launch of its Data Center II (DC2), a hot co-location site 200 miles from the companys primary data center in downtown Portland. DC2 is always poised to step in as a backup for the companys primary facility, in case of any physical plant issue there and ensures that Digitalrep customers wont miss a beat, should a switch over be required.

We believe that security is the key to everything we do for our customers, said John Meaney, President at Digitalrep. Beyond viruses and hackers, which are, of course important security for our customers extends to our ability to function flawlessly in the event of an unplanned disaster of any proportion. The investments weve made over the last few months ensure our ability to do just that.

Digitalrep runs a best practices environment, utilizing the best new technologies, its own experience, and knowledge to comprehend every potential problem that might arise, providing Digitalreps customers with the security and knowledge that the information technology infrastructure running their businesses is the most secure and most advanced available.

About Digitalrep LLC.

Digitalrep, the company that turns data into decisions, is the first to deliver an affordable solution for same store analysis in category management to both retailers and CPG companies. The company was founded in 1999 in Portland, Oregon.

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According to a recent survey from virtual-strategy.com (August 14, 2012), when surveying a group of 360 cloud storage service providers and enterprises, only 33% have NAND or flash drive data recovery plans in place. That means that 67% of cloud storage firms do not have a plan in place for protecting client data from requiring a memory stick recovery service or data recovery services. Yes, cloud storage is becoming the fastest and most convenient way of storing data, but as we can see, even cloud servers are not USB drive recovery proof. So far, 26% of virtual environment type data storage firms have reported some type of data loss where a flash drive data recovery service would need to be utilized. Think your data is safe? Think again. Memory stick recovery service needs are at an all time high (eProvided).

So, lets say that some type of a data disaster was to happen, what to do then? There are countless data recovery firms competing for your business, but one name that stands above them all is eProvided.com. eProvided USB drive recovery company is at the forefront of flash drive data recovery services. Countless articles have been written by this data recovery expert on the future of NAND flash USB drive recovery and data storage.

So whats next on tap in the data storage or memory stick recovery world? eProvided USB drive recovery services stands by the claim that everything’s slowly moving towards a NAND based storage platform. What this means is that the regular HDD type of storage days may be numbered (techcentral.co.za). SSD’s and flash type media are here to stay and will become the predominant way of storing data. High speed/capacity SSD’s and NAND chips are already powering some cloud servers, and this is just the start (stormondemand.com).

eProvided, a NAND flash recovery expert focusing strictly on NAND recovery as well as memory stick recovery states that NAND flash is the way of the future. Any type of USB drive recovery services such as flash drive data recovery and the advanced recovery techniques of memory stick recovery have been perfected by eProvided. This USB drive recovery firm is currently taking on data recovery partners at their Colorado based headquarters.

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