Questionable Future for the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) (Part 1)
Even though sales of the chip based SSD medium are on the rise, traditional magnetic hard disk drives (HDD) are still quite popular both for private use as well as in companies. Regardless of the...
Why Should you Erase Virtual Data?
Traditionally, getting rid of data from storage media has often been limited to hard drives from old PCs and laptops once they reach the end of their usable lifespan. However, with today’s...
New Petya Ransomware Strikes Around the Globe
New Petya Ransomware Makes Disruptive Debut Spanning back to the early 1990s and making a brief reappearance in early 2016, a variant of Petya Ransomware (also called Petrwrap) has resurfaced once...
Virtualization: What are the causes of virtual system data loss?
Virtualization technology dominates the enterprise landscape. According to Gartner, most firms report 75% or higher virtualization. Improvements in hypervisors have reduced the complexity of setting...
8 Steps to Protect your Website
Website security is a major concern as of late as cyber-attacks are growing quickly by the number. As a small website or blog owner, you may believe that you don’t need to worry about your website,...
Ontrack Data Recovery: A Firsthand Experience with Data Loss
I’m feeling a little nostalgic today, so thought I’d share a little incident from the past. As I've expressed in prior blog postings, one of the biggest challenges Ontrack has is successfully...