| 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 |
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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.
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| 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. |
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| $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. | |
