Encryption - What Would it Take to Crack It?
Due to the recent rise in ransomware attacks, encryption has become an important issue. The history of the encoding information began about 4,000 years ago. Egyptian scribes used special hieroglyphs...
RAID History and Introduction
Redundant Array of Independent (originally Inexpensive) Disks (RAID) storage has revolutionized enterprise data storage technology, building in the peace of mind of redundancy (from RAID 1 & above)...
RAID Configurations and Data Recovery
Ontrack and RAID data recovery Ontrack offers data recovery services for all major RAID architectures. This includes, RAID levels 0, 00, 1, 10, 1E, 1E0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 50, 5E, 5EE, 6 and 60. We also...
Need a Data Recovery Service? How to choose the right one.
You were always hoping that you would never need it, maybe you even had a backup (and hopefully it is up to date), but sometimes bad luck just can’t be avoided! Now that you have lost your data and...
PowerControls Version Documentation
Current Version Ontrack PowerControls 9.6.4 Released October 9, 2025 - Click to download free trial Includes all the same excellent features and benefits of Ontrack PowerControls v9.6.3 plus these...
Data Term Glossary
Active Data Active data is information residing on the direct access storage media of computer systems, which is readily visible to the operating system and/or application software with which it was...
Recoverable Tape Types and Formats
Ontrack has the specialist knowledge and tools to help you recover from any tape format. In addition, custom development is available for unique or proprietary backup archive systems. With Ontrack's...