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...
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...
Common IT Challenges - Shadow IT and More
IT always has its fair share of challenges, but are some of them preventable? Recently updated information shows that technological progress and cost or resource restraints are putting businesses at...
Migrating data? Here's What You Need to Watch Out For
Everybody loves a hardware upgrade, be it a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop or even a new server. It’s something shiny and new. When we talk about upgrades or migrating data though, it’s often more of...
Dangerous Adware - What to do if Infected
The term adware originated from the contraction of the terms advertisement (advertising) and software. Adware falls under the heading of malware and is primarily not dangerous, but very inconvenient...