04 August 2015 00:00:00 EDT
Migrating to a new desktop operating system
On 29 July 2015 Microsoft released the new Windows 10 as an evolution of Windows 8 and - as this always happens when a new operating system (OS) is launched - many begin to wonder whether to switch...
07 July 2015 00:00:00 EDT
How to Migrate from Microsoft Exchange to Office 365
If your company are looking to migrate mailboxes from Microsoft exchange servers then follow our guide that provides best practices to follow before going ahead with the migration. Steps to follow...
Using SMART tools to predict HDD failure
In a previous blog - MTBF: Can it help predict hard drive failure? - we noted that the best-known methods for predicting hard disk drive (HDD) failure aren't what you'd call scientific. Grinding and...
Mean Time Between Failures: Can it help predict hard drive failure?
Here at Ontrack, we're well aware that data loss can affect anyone. For many of us, it comes in the form of hard disk drive (HDD) failure - an umbrella term for mechanical, electronic and logical...
Data recovery - step by step process
So what is the process of data recovery? A bit like recreating a loaf of bread from a kilogram of breadcrumbs. When we received the disk drive from the US space shuttle Columbia (the American space...
Private investigation: The File Systems
The logical data structure on the disk is managed by the file system. FAT (File Allocation Tables) used to be a very popular file system known from DOS. Nowadays they’ve been replaced almost...
Where are my files? The investigation continues…
Probably everyone is familiar with a popular myth about the origin of the Internet. A global network was designed in the '60s for the military. The network required communication to be allowed in the...