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- Ontrack PowerControls (exe)
- Ontrack PowerControls is a simple, yet powerful tool for copying and searching mailbox data directly from Microsoft Exchange Server backups, un-mounted databases (.edb), and Information Store files. Free trial includes new read/view ExtractWizard Agent capabilities plus allows you to open EDB files, view and search mailboxes - allowing you to...
- Tags: Mailbox, Kroll Ontrack Inc., Microsoft Exchange Server, Ontrack PowerControls, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2005-05-22
- EasyRecovery Professional (exe)
- Identifies and allows you to view the deleted files and corrupted documents that are recoverable with a full edition of EasyRecovery Professional, while offering the Word and Zip repair component that allows you to recover and repair deleted or corrupt Word and Zip files!
- Tags: Kroll Ontrack Inc., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2004-08-31
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- 10 hard drive disasters
- Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company. Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard...
- Tags: Hard Drive, hard drives, data recovery, Dan Ilett, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-07-22
- Stanford University data breach leaks sensitive information of approximately 62,000 employees
- A data breach resulting from a stolen laptop has leaked sensitive information including Social Security Numbers of approximately 62,000 as reported by Stanford University former and current Standford University employees. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a site devoted to the collection of data breach information, reports this number as 72,000, and I'm...
- Tags: Sensitive Information, Stanford University, Data, Information, Stanford, Laptop Computer, Kroll, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- 'Kroll' for the iPhone
- At WWDC 2008, Xavier Carrillo Costa from Digital Legends Entertainment shows off 'Kroll', a new game for the iPhone. Costa says his team built the game in just two weeks.
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Costa, Team Management, Personal Technology, Management, News, apple, iphone, developers, WWDC, kroll, Carrillo Costa, games, Digital Legends Entertainment
- Videos 2008-06-09
- They died for Reddi-Wip?
- Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia...
- Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Foam, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Complicated failures; simple causes
- Kroll Ontrack released surprising results from a survey related to business continuity planning. According to the study: [N]early half of respondents, 43 percent, said they don't believe their companies test their backup systems to ensure data can be produced if needed. Many IT projects fail because participants...
- Tags: Information Technology, Failure, Strategy, Business Security, Backups, Management, Business Operations, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-22
- Leading Provider of Customized Business Information Streamlines Managerial Load
- Today, Kroll Factual Data has one of the largest known deployments of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 - running on more than 1,400 virtual machines. Although the company has realized tremendous benefits from Virtual Server, it needed to find a way to reduce the 100 or more hours required each...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Microsoft Corp., Benefits, Human Resources
- Case studies 2007-09-28
- Information Provider Cuts Costs and Improves Disaster Recovery With Virtual Machines
- Kroll Factual Data delivers Web-based business information to companies such as mortgage lenders and property management firms. In 2003, Kroll Factual Data acquired a company with only 98 hours left on its lease. To avoid paying for the leases on two data centers, Kroll Factual Data chose to migrate the...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Lease, Microsoft Corp., Disaster Recovery, Virtual Machine, Kroll Factual Data, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-09-01
- How Microsoft puts your data at risk
- How Microsoft puts your data at riskYawnTalk about troll FUD.As a computer user since the 60s, all that has happened is that both hardware and software have become more reliable. You manage to mention NTFS disparagingly even when it outperforms the other file system and with FAT32 is the...
- Tags: ZFS, file system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- How Microsoft puts your data at risk
- 56% of data loss due to system & hardware problems - OntrackData loss is painful and all too common. Why? Because your file system stinks. Microsoft's NTFS (used in XP & Vista) with its de facto monopoly is the worst offender. But Apple and Linux aren't any better. Everyone knows...
- Tags: NTFS, Disk, File System, Microsoft Corp., Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- How data gets lost
- Our perception of risk and the reality of risk are often two different things. For example, are computer viruses or system glitches more likely to hose your data? While viruses get bad press for poor system performance, they aren't very likely to damage your data. Your system, on the other...
- Tags: Data Recovery, Disk, Data Loss, Data, Backup, Computer, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- A bumper crop of new mashup platforms
- While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...
- Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- ID theft allegations haunt founder of ID theft fraud protection service
- ID theft allegations haunt founder of ID theft fraud protection serviceID Theft allegations hauntThis is indeed a sad story. It is very unfortunate that consumers would entrust their information to a third party, only to have to question themselves whether or not they have placed their trust in the right...
- Tags: fraud protection, identity theft
- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
- News you need to know
- A few interesting tidbits in the tech world. John Battelle highlights the weirdness of Google Checkout, which appears to stiff merchants on data. ZDNet notes muni Wi-Fi can penetrate buildings. Interference fiesta.News.com says CyberMonday is overrated; The Wall Street Journal subscription required examines how e-tailers are using data to target...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- Improve the way you develop software: Apply principles from the Unified Process framework
- Improve the way you develop software by adopting software engineering best practices that operate within the proven, scalable framework of the Unified Process. The practices can be adopted individually, but work best synergistically; taken together they constitute the backbone of a process that is iterative, agile, and that scales to...
- Tags: RUP, Software, Chapter, Addison-Wesley, UML, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Book chapters 2006-10-18
- Drive failure? Yagotta try Knoppix first
- Drive failure? Yagotta try Knoppix firstYou're better off keeping that USB drive FAT32because as your story indicates, it's not as if NTFS is giving you any additional security anyway. Even if you plug it into another WinXP machine all you have to do is claim ownership of the files and...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Knoppix Linux, NTFS, Drive Failure, security, Yagotta, Microsoft Windows, Linux, rsync
- Discussion threads 2006-06-19
- Microsoft, EU to head back to court over antitrust
- Microsoft, EU to head back to court over antitrustThe EU court should back the commision!I demand that the EU court should upheld the commision's penalties and add more of its own!The M$ crooks should be chased out of the EU court, because the European justice is not on the take...
- Tags: Corporate law, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, SECURITY, Web browsers, EU Commision, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Corp., antitrust, EU Court, innovation
- Discussion threads 2006-04-20
- Network Appliance and IBM DB2 on Linux Enable Factual Data to Shorten Response Times, Increase Database Availability
- Factual Data Corp., a subsidiary of global risk consulting company Kroll Inc., provides a wide range of customized information services. Factual Data was running its database on dedicated servers with direct-attached SCSI disk arrays - an arrangement the company found slow, hard to scale, and unreliable. Factual Data needed to...
- Tags: Linux, Network Appliance Inc., IBM DB2, NetApp, IBM Corp., Storage, Data Management, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Kroll Factual Data, Inc. Meets Growing Business Demands and Enhances Customer ServiceKroll Factual Data, Inc. Meets Growing Business Demands and Enhances Customer Service
- Kroll Factual Data, Inc., a subsidiary of Kroll Inc., is a leading provider of business information to mortgage lenders, consumer leaders, property management firms, and other businesses. The company wanted to provide a highly available and scalable database foundation for Web-based information services and support a high volume order management...
- Tags: Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Meet, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Data Management
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