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<![CDATA[ Grant Gross, IDG News Service

12/07/2006 08:20:13

CA has pumped up its storage management product line by acquiring XOsoft Inc., which sells data replication and recovery software, CA announced Tuesday.

XOsoft's products are designed to provide uninterrupted access to file and application servers -- including Windows servers, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL and Oracle -- and allow recovery after disasters. CA plans to integrate XOsoft's products with its BrightStor ARCserve Backup product, it said in a press release.

CA did not disclose terms of the transaction, which follows its June acquisition of MDY Group International, a provider of records management software and services.

XOsoft serves more than 1,600 customers in 42 countries, according to CA. The company was founded in 1999 and is located in Waltham, Massachusetts.

The acquisition will help CA offer customers a multilayered approach to IT system backup and recovery, including traditional backup, offsite vaulting and disaster recovery, the company said.

CA intends to market and support XOsoft's products through its direct sales group and authorized XOsoft and CA partners.

CA's BrightStor ARCserve Backup provides customers with a variety of storage options, including encryption, integrated antivirus protection, media management and snapshot backup and recovery capabilities. XOsoft complements these capabilities by adding continuous protection and quick recovery, significantly reducing backup workloads, CA said. ]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:27:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Hewlett Packard to Invest $2million in Australian Data Recovery Centres</title>
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<![CDATA[ Options are opening up for Australian organisations to add belts and braces to the continuity of all aspects of their IT services. 


HP Steve Cartland, Business Continuity Services Manager for South Pacific told IDM that 2006 will see, "…over AUD $2 million (invested) in extra facilities in the next 12 months. This continued investment, as part of our world-wide plan, is needed by our customers to ensure we meet their continuity needs."

Aimed at organisations in the financial, healthcare and manufacturing areas, the 'Recovery Centre' is one of 64 worldwide and is the second in Singapore - servicing the Asia Pacific region. With 'Office Recovery Centres' already active in Sydney and Melbourne the new mega-centre provides another possible solution for organisations in Australia seeking bullet-proofing for their workflow.

According to the aptly-named, Tan Lan Chew, an HP vice president for technology solutions: "Disasters (such as tsunamis and September 11th) have been in the headlines all too often… and possible disruption to business it is no surprise that managing business continuity and operational risk today has become a top concern for enterprises."

Global catastrophes aside, integrated data recovery services that enable organisations to get back up and running in minutes rather than days are becoming more cost effective. Predictions that 2006 will be the hottest Australian summer on record point up the fact that electrical brown-outs, spikes and other associated power failures will also turn up the heat on local infrastructures. This makes third-party facilities that are supported by industrial-strength UPSs (Uniterruptable Power Supplies).
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:08:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>New York City Now has World-Class Data Recovery Available in the Heart of Manhattan</title>
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<![CDATA[ New York, NY (PRWEB) December 1, 2005 -- ActionFront Data Recovery Labs, the most technologically advanced professional data recovery provider, today announced a new facility in Penn Plaza, New York City.

“New York is the newest location in our chain of professional data recovery labs in local markets across the nation. This full service facility will provide notebook users, managers of enterprise storage and data loss victims of all types, local access to the world’s best data recovery services,” said Ron Austin, President of ActionFront. “The New York lab will also support the ActionFront Critical Response, 24/7 service that restores business-critical operations.” ]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:07:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Ontrack Data Recovery Announces 2005 Top 10 List of Strangest (and Funniest) Data Disasters</title>
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<![CDATA[ MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 12/05/2005 -- Ontrack Data Recovery has unveiled its annual Top Ten list of the strangest and funniest computer mishaps in 2005. Taken from a global poll of Ontrack data recovery experts, this year's list of bizarre data disasters is even more incredible when you consider that in each case cited, Ontrack actually recovered the data. 

"Ontrack Data Recovery receives more than 100,000 requests for data recovery service every year so we come across some pretty strange data disasters," said Jim Reinert, senior director of Software and Services for Ontrack Data Recovery. "Although the examples in this year's list are pretty extreme, they illustrate a very important point -- data recovery is possible, even in cases where it seems impossible." 



(Click here for details)
One customer's dog mistook
his memory stick for a chew toy.
Copyright Kroll Ontrack, Inc.The Ontrack 2005 Top Ten List of Data Disasters and Remarkable Recoveries 

10. PhD Almost an F -- A PhD candidate lost his entire dissertation when a bad power supply suddenly zapped his computer and damaged the USB Flash drive that stored the document. Had the data not been recovered, the student would not have graduated. 

9. Suffering from Art -- While rearranging her home office, a woman accidentally dropped a five pound piece of clay pottery on her laptop, directly onto the hard drive area that contained a book she'd been working on for five years and 150 year-old genealogy pictures that had not yet been printed. 


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8. Domestic Dilemma -- A husband deleted all of his child's baby pictures when he accidentally hit the wrong button on his computer. His wife hinted at divorce if he did not get the pictures back. 

7. Bite Worse than Bark -- A customer left his memory stick lying out and his dog mistook it for a chew toy. Ontrack was able to recover all of the data despite teeth marks all over the stick and a hole that went completely through. 

6. Don't Try this at Home -- A man attempting to recover data from his computer on his own found the job too challenging mid-way through and ended up sending Ontrack his completely disassembled drive -- with each of its parts in a separate baggie. 

5. Out of Time -- A clockmaker suffered a system meltdown, losing the digital designs for all of its clocks. Ontrack literally beat the clock recovering all their data just in time for an important international tradeshow. 

4. Drilling for Data -- During a multi-drive RAID recovery, engineers discovered one drive belonging in the set was missing. The customer found the missing drive in a dumpster, but in compliance with company policy for disposing of old drives, it had a hole drilled through it. 

3. Safe at Home -- After one of their executives experienced a laptop crash, the Minnesota Twins professional baseball team called on Ontrack to rescue crucial scouting information about their latest prospects. The team now relies on Ontrack for all data recoveries within its scouting and coaching ranks. 

2. Hardware Problems -- A frustrated writer attacked her computer with a hammer. When the engineers received the computer, the hammer imprint was clearly visible on the top cover. 

And finally, the number one most bizarre data disaster of 2005... 

1. La Cucaracha -- In hopes of rescuing valuable company information, a customer pulled an old laptop out of a warehouse where it had been sitting unused for 10 years. When engineers opened the computer, it contained hundreds of husks of dead and decaying cockroaches. 

"Data can be recovered from computers, servers and even memory cards used in digital devices by either working on the computers or media/storage devices in our labs and cleanrooms, or by using our patented Remote Data Recovery™ technology," added Reinert. "However, individuals and companies can avoid the hassle and stress this can cause by backing up data on a regular basis and establishing a relationship with a professional data recovery company before disaster strikes." 
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:07:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Data Storage Institute Collaborates with CBL Data Recovery Technologies on Data Storage Media R&D</title>
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<![CDATA[ San Diego, CA (PRWEB) January 31, 2005 -- The Data Storage Institute (DSI), ranked among the top five data storage research and development centers worldwide, and CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc. (http://www.cbltech.com), a leading international provider of computer data recovery services, have signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on R&D projects leading to solutions for issues affecting new data storage media.
Both parties will first work towards establishing a project to develop the world’s first drive-independent hardware tool that will enable CBL to recover close to 100 per cent of lost customer data in scenarios where a magnetic signal is present and the data is still resident on the damaged drive.
“Data recovery is a critical part of business continuity,” says Prof Chong Tow Chong, Executive Director of DSI. “This partnership with CBL provides an excellent opportunity to apply our extensive expertise to solve problems that afflict data storage media in everyday use.”
Currently there is limited capability in the industry to fully recover data from drives even where a strong magnetic signal is present and the data is still resident on the drive. This tool will put CBL in complete control of the media, independent of manufacturer-specific technology and without the need for replacement parts.
The results from this joint collaboration will be invaluable to all industries, especially companies and government organizations involved in forensic activities because it will increase the success rate of data recovery projects from the current industry standard of about 85 per cent to almost 100 per cent.
Both CBL and DSI will call upon each other’s expertise and experiences in dealing with data storage and recovery technologies to build the state-of-art date recovery tool. It will be able to uncover the damaged portions of the drive without the need for vendor-unique commands.
“We are very excited to have an opportunity to partner with a world class research organization. This MoU demonstrates both parties’ confidence in each other’s expertise as an established, global provider of data storage and recovery technologies,” says CBL Singapore’s Managing Director, Samuel David. “The tool will combine the essence of DSI’s engineering design expertise with the data recovery capabilities of our global network. The output will be a cutting edge tool that recovers data from surfaces deemed of no value in the current scenario.”
CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc.
Founded in 1993, CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc. (http://www.cbltech.com) is the leading international provider of digital data recovery services. Through its worldwide network of secure facilities, CBL provides this critical service to all sizes of businesses, institutions and government agencies as well as to individual clients who have experienced data loss under any circumstances. CBL employs experts from varying disciplines coupled with proprietary techniques to retrieve data quickly and effectively from a wide array of affected media for customers ranging from large enterprises to home users. The company’s data recovery laboratories are located in 10 countries on five continents, including Brisbane, Australia; San Diego, California and Armonk, NY, USA; Toronto, Canada; Newcastle, United Kingdom; Kaiserslautern, Germany; Beijing, China; Barbados, West Indies; Curitiba, Brazil; Tokyo, Japan; and Singapore.
About Data Storage Institute (DSI)
The Data Storage Institute (DSI) is a member of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Established in 1992 as the Magnetics Technology Centre (MTC), it was renamed Data Storage Institute in 1996. The research institute’s vision is to be a vital node in a global community of knowledge generation and innovation, nurturing research talents and capabilities for world-class R&D in next generation storage technologies. DSI is a member of the non-profit Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) of USA. For more information, please visit ]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:26:00 -0500</pubDate>
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