The Perfect Backup: Steps to Ensuring Backup Success
Whether smartphone or tablet, Windows PC or Mac: In today's time a proper backup is a duty, at least of the most important data. Accidents can occur, thieves are on the move and data theft in...
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...
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...
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...
What Does Encrypted Mean? The Various Levels of Encryption
What is encryption? Encryption is the process of transforming information (referred to as plaintext) to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as...