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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...