An Inside Look at the Hybrid Drive
For the past decade or so, solid state drives (SSDs) have been building popularity in the IT world. First, they infiltrated laptops and mobile devices with their small form factor and the void of...
A Day in the Life of a Data Recovery Cleanroom Engineer
Have you ever wondered what it was like to be one of our data recovery cleanroom engineers? I asked Steve Hruska, a Hardware R&D Engineer at Kroll Ontrack to take a day and document what he does....
Examining the True Cost of Database Restores
Let’s face it, DBAs are busy… really busy. DBA tasks, such as database server tuning, maintenance, and taking care of customer query or reporting requests, take priority. Usually full database...
Exchange Administrator Paleontologist and the Email Past
If you’re an Exchange administrator, you’re probably all too familiar with the requests from your Human Resources or Legal departments asking you to restore and search emails for an employee that has...
Data Recovery Tips after a Blackout
Since I started working in Data recovery, I tend to view the stories in the news a little differently. When hearing of a disaster like the recent blackout in Detroit, my first reaction is the same as...
Another dropped table? SQL DBA to the rescue!
Anyone in an IT role has two kinds of work days. Good days are defined by no one bothering them and they get to work on the strategic business initiatives they’ve been assigned to enhance the...
First Aid Manual for Flooded Media (aka water damage!)
It’s July, and here in Minnesota we are just starting to see the water from our over-saturated June recede. Many people this year have been affected by the rising rivers and lakes across the US. For...