Disaster Recovery Plan – Prepare for the nightmare
If you manage data storage in any way, it’s probably not the bump in the night which frightens you. It is the blinking red lights, or the fear of no lights at all which keeps you up at night....
Why Preventing Virtualization Sprawl Matters
Virtualization is not only for early-adopters or IT geeks anymore. The technology has found its place in almost every IT department and data center, but the advantages of the technology - fast and...
The Biggest Storage Trends and Predictions for 2017
Working for the leading global data recovery company, Ontrack specialists see a variety of storage devices and technologies come and go over the years when they fail to function and data loss occurs....
Reusing Smartphone Memory Chips in Brand New USB Drives
Where do your USB drives come from? At an international computer forensics conference in March of this year, experts and law enforcement collaborators discussed a serious challenge investigators are...
Exchange migrations got you down?
On a recent long overdue vacation to Costa Rica, I ignored the advice of many travellers and just relied on a good map. What I thought was a good plan turned disastrous in a hurry. In Costa Rica,...
Where on earth is cloud data actually located?
Think of cloud computing and the first thing that comes to mind is usually a mainstream application like Google Drive, Dropbox or iCloud, but there is a lot more to it than you might think. Firstly,...
What to consider before you redeploy IT equipment
It's often smarter to redeploy your organization's old IT equipment than to throw it away. For example, if someone hands in their notice a few months after getting a new company laptop, or an exec...