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Data Recovery companies can help you when your hard disks, tape or flash storage fail and your backup software or backup media or disk to disk backup is unable to restore your data.

And Data Recovery is for all those naughty people (nearly all consumers and most SMBs - according to market research) who don't actually do any backups at all (but now wish they had.) Don't feel too bad about that not-backing-up-everyday intention. Even if you did do a backup - a classic saying in the industry is - "the backup worked OK - but the restore failed."
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New Book on Forensic Data Recovery
Editor:- June 4, 2009 Ontrack this week announced availability of the second 2nd edition of the American Bar Association book, "Electronic Evidence and Discovery: What Every Lawyer Should Know Now."

The authors, both have strong connections to Ontrack and more than 20 years combined experience in the legal technology industry.

Michele C.S. Lange serves as a director for the Legal Technologies business line for Kroll Ontrack. As one of the nation's most knowledgeable experts, Lange is frequently called upon by journalists to comment on cutting-edge law and technology developments, and she also routinely shares her expertise and knowledge as a guest speaker for legal associations, CLE programs and law school courses. Lange graduated from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse with highest honors and the University of Minnesota Law School, cum laude.

Kristin M. Nimsger, president, Kroll Ontrack, leads the company's more than 30 offices of employees who work to produce products and services for legal, corporate and government entities through three product lines: Legal Technologies and Consulting, Data Recovery and Advanced Search Technologies. Prior to joining Kroll Ontrack, Nimsger practiced law in the areas of complex product liability litigation, and property and casualty insurance defense. Nimsger earned her J.D. cum laude from William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, and received her B.A. in English/Communications from the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

See also:- "book" - editor mentions, Storage People, Data Recovery

Data Analyzers Invests in New Data Recovery Facility

Orlando, FL - May 12, 2009 - Data Analyzers is moving into a newly acquired class 100 clean room.

The clean room environment at Data Analyzers is used to disassemble malfunctioning hard drives for data recovery purposes.

"Despite the economically difficult times, we have invested in a more efficient clean room environment and are reforming our business development strategies" said Andrew von Ramin Mapp, founder of the company.

SalvationDATA Offers Better Hope of Data Recovery for flash SSDs
Sichuan, China - February 6, 2009 - SalvationDATA announced it has developed a new technology for flash SSD data recovery.

The company says its methodology will work with all commercial devices (excluding military and industrial SSDs which have inbuilt secure erase). The new tools are expected to launch in May 2009 - and will be priced at about $1,300. ...SalvationDATA profile

Editor's comments:-
I didn't think this would be feasible - and even wrote an article explaining why it would be very difficult.

It is difficult! - and does need a new approach. But this is one prediction about which I'll be glad to be proved wrong. Lack of an affordable flash SSD data recovery industry could have triggered a backfire, damping enthusiasm in the consumer SSD revolution - and such a setback could have been a reactionary market differentiator favoring notebook HDDs. (Most consumers and SMBs don't do effective backups - a trend which hasn't changed in all the many years I've reported market research on this subject.)


Data Recovery Enters Top 5 Storage Searches

Editor:- January 7, 2009 - Data Recovery (this page you're viewing now) entered the top 5 subjects viewed by StorageSearch.com readers in December 2008 for the 1st time in 10 years.

"Like any rescue service of last resort, Data Recovery is something which it's healthy to spend little or no time thinking about. But when something goes wrong with your operating data and backups - you are forced to become an instant expert" said editor, Zsolt Kerekes. "The icon used for Data Recovery on the mouse site since 1999 is still one of my favorites. You can see a larger version of the image here."

The list of top articles and subjects will be updated later today on the market research page.


Xytron Joins IPDRA

Editor:- November 10, 2008 - Xytron has joined the International Professional Data Recovery Association.

Founded in August 2008 by Disklabs, the IPDRA vets prospective members for Data Recovery experience and publishes a code of conduct for members.

In an industry where anybody can set up a web site to attract your broken hard disks / tapes / flash storage - IPDRA aims to be a major leap forward helping clients decide who they will send their critical or precious data to.


Seagate Services Renamed i365

Editor:- September 23, 2008 - Seagate today announced a comprehensive rebranding of its EVault, MetaLINCS, and Seagate Recovery Services companies into a single new brand - i365

i365, a Seagate Company, focuses on the unique needs and expectations of small, mid-size and enterprise companies. The "i" in the name represents information and "365" for commitment to be reliably available and accessible to customers. ...i365 profile, renamed storage companies


CBL Data Recovery Launches a Different Type of Data Recovery Service

MARKHAM, ON / ARMONK, NY - July 29, 2008 - CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc. today announced a new service offering which shields computer users from the expense of data recovery when data loss disaster strikes unexpectedly.

The CBL Data Recovery Service Protection Plan provides 3 years of unlimited data recovery coverage of a hard drive for $99.99.

"It's not a matter of if data loss will happen; it's simply a matter of when," said CBL's President and CEO Bill Margeson. "The CBL DRSPP is a preemptive, affordable alternative to standard data recovery service fees which can exceed $1,000 when physical damage to a hard drive prevents access to files. For some computer users, such an unplanned expenditure is not financially feasible. The CBL Data Recovery Service Protection Plan shields them from the unexpected expense."

Eligibility? - Any make or model of new and existing internal or external hard drives are eligible for DRSPP coverage. The hard drive must be functional at the time of registration and accessible from a computer running a Windows operating system. The hard drive's serial number is captured during online registration so when a DRSPP customer incurs data loss, they simply ship the registered hard drive to CBL. CBL DRSPP coverage extends to data loss resulting from virtually every cause including user errors, mechanical or electrical failures, software malfunctions, viruses, and natural disasters.

The CBL Data Recovery Service Protection Plan offers 1 or 3 years of coverage for $49.99 and $99.99 respectively inclusive of parts, laboratory time and labor. Shipping and applicable taxes are extra. CBL DRSPP coverage commences 30 days after payment and registration. ...CBL Data Recovery profile, Data Recovery, Storage Services

editor's comments:- the Data Recovery market is a difficult one for vendors to operate in because no-one wants (or plans) to be a customer in this segment. It's only when disaster strikes that most customers investigate this subject.

You could argue that if users thought ahead they would spend their money on backups. But backups frequently go wrong - or can be affected by the same common mode failures which render the original data media unreadable (fire, flood, virus etc).

It will be interesting to see how successful the new business model is - and (if so) how long it will be before it gets copied.

$22 million Funding for SSD Data Recovery Chip
Santa Clara, Calif. - April 9, 2008 - Link_A_Media Devices Corp secured $22 million in Series B financing.

The funding round, led by AIG SunAmerica Ventures, was secured from 4 additional financial and corporate investors - KeyNote Ventures, NEC Electronics, Micron and Seagate.

Link_A_Media Devices is developing a new class of chip controller resident data recovery solutions for HDDs and SSDs. These are designed to exceed the performance of conventional methods deployed in peripheral storage devices, as well as provide adaptive features that can be used during manufacturing to improve drive yields and product margins. ...Link_A_Media Devices profile

Editor's comments:-
MLC flash SSDs have high internal error rates and are currently unrecoverable. It looks like Link_A_Media's technology could improve the odds of data recovery in failed devices which incorporate its technology (as well as reducing data errors while the SSD is still operational.)

Another side effect of their technology may be better performance in flash SSDs.

Link_A_Media says their IOP Buster architecture enables scalability within the controller to address various segments of SSD applications seamlessly. It enables faster Read and Write transfers.
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