REDUCE RECOVERY TIMES FOR RAID FAILURES

SYDNEY DATA RECOVERY

DEVELOPS INNOVATIVE SOFTWARE TO REDUCE

RECOVERY TIMES FOR RAID FAILURES

St. Leonards, NSW – Sydney Data Recovery (SDR) ( www.sydneydatarecovery.com.au ), a leading Australian provider of computer data recovery services, has announced the deployment of a new software utility that radically reduces the time it takes to recover data from crashed multiple disk RAID arrays and other Enterprise Storage Systems such as SAN’s and NAS’s.

The proprietary software, used in conjunction with SDR’s RAID Response Service, revolutionizes data recovery for multi-disk storage units. This means minimal disruption to business while the data recovery efforts are underway. In addition, the RAID software allows SDR to reduce recovery times to hours instead of days or weeks over current recovery processes in use in the industry.

“Systems managers put a lot of faith in RAID, but they fail just like any other type of technology,” says SDR’s head of research and development. “To recover data from a six-disk RAID array can take experts days. By automating many of the laborious tasks, we can now reduce this time to only a few hours.”

The technology has been designed to work with any RAID vendor or combination of controllers, scheme or encoding system. Developed by a at CBL Data Recovery Technologies (CBL) labs in the Center for Advanced Industry in Newcastle, UK, is part of an ongoing strategy to create innovative tools to reduce the costs and response time of data recovery from any media or operating system.

“Many data recovery firms simply avoid complex jobs like recovering RAID because the store bought tools simply don’t exist for RAID,” adds Fitzpatrick. “To manually configure a system to help recovery traditionally requires a high degree of technical knowledge and is very time consuming.”

This year marks CBL’s 15^th year of successfully offering data recovery services to clients with damaged storage media due to hardware failure, virus activity, system malfunctions, physical damage, file corruption or human error. The new technology has already been successfully used within CBL’s worldwide network of 16 labs in five continents and is now available as part of SDR’s RAID Response Service.