Aug 25, 2016, 12:00:00 AM
To Recover Or Not To Recover? That Is The Question
A data loss has occurred – now what? Determining if there is a need to recover the lost data can be difficult. There are several things you must take into consideration when deciding if data recovery...
Aug 23, 2016, 12:00:00 AM
The Top Five Triggers for Migrating Tapes
Change is rarely comfortable, but as Winston Churchill said, “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” In business, there can be many reasons for organizations to modify or even...
Aug 11, 2016, 12:00:00 AM
7 Deadly Threats to Your Tape Accessibility
Is your tape storage practice similar to that of most people? You might be ‘following the rules’ and making sure you regularly copy the company data into tapes, which you then diligently store and...
10 Tips to Help Protect Your Data from Extreme Weather
Every summer, our engineers see the same pattern: a surge in data recovery service requests that coincides with the severe storm season. Ontrack has 30 years in the data recovery business; and for 30...
Jul 21, 2016, 12:00:00 AM
A Quick Guide to Understanding Media Corruption
Modern drives have advanced at an astounding rate in recent years, but despite all these innovations, media corruption still remains an issue in today’s data recovery industry. Before we delve in to...
Jul 12, 2016, 12:00:00 AM
Understanding How RAID Storage Works (Part 2)
In part 1 of this article, we explained the basic idea of RAID, as well as the most commonly used terms when talking about this type of storage. In this second part, we’ll take a look at what RAID...
Understanding the Importance of Tape Migration – Part 1
No other storage medium is lasting longer than tape. What is great news for everybody who is archiving data long-term because of legal or regulatory reasons can cause big problems for IT...