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October 28, 2024

When a Data Center Data Recovery Becomes Disaster Recovery

When a customer loses most of their data center to water damage, it is nothing to take lightly. We received an emergency call just like this recently. An enterprise level company had a burst pipe...

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Server Recovery Damaged Device Recovery Water Damage
October 07, 2024

Case study: dd command causes vital data to disappear

Over the years, the workplace has evolved in many areas. None so prevalent as the IT environment. Today, many companies have had to encourage much more complex systems in order to keep up with the...

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Server Recovery Database Recovery IT & Cyber Security
September 30, 2024

Emergency Recovery for School District with Large Tape Backup

The customer A metropolitan US school district The challenge The school district containing 165 schools was shut down by a Ryuk ransomware attack that affected its entire network. The attack was...

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Ransomware Recovery Tape Services Tape Restoration
September 27, 2024

Accounting Database Recovered from a lost VMware Virtual Disk

The Customer A local German IT service contractor, HMR Systemhaus GmbH, received a call from a tax consultancy firm about an important virtual machine (VM) that was not running anymore. The Situation...

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Server Recovery Data Recovery Database Recovery Virtualized System Recovery IT & Cyber Security
September 18, 2024

Amazon EC2 Cloud Recovery

The Customer A data hosting solution provider for media companies needed access to deleted ElasticSearch data files from an Amazon EC2 environment. The Situation The client was hosting a 3-node...

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Cloud Recovery Data Recovery Database Recovery Remote Recovery
August 23, 2024

Taking Advantage of Hackers’ Mistakes in a Ransomware Attack

The challenge One of the most active Ransomware-as-a-Service threat actors in the world, Black Basta which is known for its double extortion attacks, carried out a ransomware attack on a customer's...

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Ransomware Recovery
August 16, 2024

Hospital databases rescued from ransomware.

The Situation A ransomware attack with the ‘Locky’ virus had severe effects for a large German hospital. Many servers at the hospital were paralyzed by the virus, limiting operations. Uninfected...

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Server Recovery RAID Recovery NAS & SAN Recovery Database Recovery Ransomware Recovery

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