Kroll Inc.
Kroll Ontrack Inc. is data recovery, data erasure, data conversion, computer forensics active in the fields of electronic evidence. Kroll Ontrack has developed tools and methods that help a software solution or service for both businesses and individuals, recover important data on computers that have become unreadable due to various reasons.
- 4.1 Ontrack Data Advisor
- 4.2 Ontrack EasyRecovery
- 4.3 Ontrack Eraser
- 4.4 Ontrack PowerControls
Ownership
Kroll Ontrack Inc., headquartered in Minneapolis, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kroll Inc., and has offices and laboratories in Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, Tokyo, since 1991 also in Europe, for example, in London ( Regional Management Europe), Paris, Boeblingen, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, Milan, Lugano, Moscow and Katowice ( Poland). Headquarters of the German branch is Böblingen GmbH Kroll Ontrack.
Kroll Inc. was acquired on 8 July 2004 at Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. for $ 1.9 billion, a provider of risk management and insurance services, which is listed on the NYSE under the symbol MMC.
Currently employed Kroll Ontrack world's approximately 500 employees - including about 70 in Germany.
History
Ontrack is founded in 1985 and brings the software disk manager to manage hard drives on the market. 1991, a branch office in Europe was founded in 1992 following offices in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. In Japan, worked with the company YE Data in data recovery since 1995. In 1996, the German subsidiary is opened in Böblingen and done the IPO on the New York Stock Exchange NASDAQ. In 1997, the product Remote Data Recovery is presented. 1998 opened the branch in France and the company Tiramisu is taken with a data recovery tool, which is then marketed as Easy Recovery on the market. In 1999, the company Mijenix is adopted and opened an office in Boulder.
In June 2002, the company is taken over by Kroll Ontrack Inc., founded in 1972 and is known as Kroll Ontrack Inc. is one of five branches of the business area Technology Services Group of Kroll Inc. The Technology Services Group is dedicated to security services, Kroll Ontrack is the brand name the Computer Forensics and Ontrack data Recovery is the brand name for the data recovery. Due to the high demand for data recovery services, the company expanded significantly in the past six years and opened additional offices. On 8 July 2004, the acquisition of Kroll Inc. by Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. takes place. In January 2006, the competitor Ibas Holdings ASA is taken from Norway, for its part, in 2005, the Vogon Ltd.. had bought from England.
Services
Data Recovery
The data recovery is the most important division of Kroll Ontrack. Worldwide, the company can point to an industry- very good recovery rate and to more than 100,000 data recovery requests per year. Since the customer needs are often very different, Kroll offers various service options.
Computer Forensics
The restoration and backup of deleted data, for example, the research and analysis of indicators available in digital form, as well as their court-proof documentation is the responsibility of the computer forensics. Since operations are now carried out mostly electronic, computer forensics has become an important proof investigative tool. The electronic discovery involves all kinds of recording and documentation of information using computers and disks.
In the search for electronic evidence within the computer already lead the smallest error for the destruction of electronic tracks. Each step must therefore be clearly documented so that the found and reproduced documents stand as evidence in court and court-appointed expert.
Remote Data Recovery ( RDR)
As the only company Kroll Ontrack offers the recovery via secure modem or Internet connection, the patented Remote Data Recovery. This is a fast and convenient method of data recovery, since it can be performed without removing the hard drive. In almost half of the cases, the recovery can be effected in this way. This eliminates unnecessary and costly downtime can be reduced, since in many cases the recovery process is completed successfully after a few hours.
Software products
Ontrack Data Advisor
Ontrack Data Advisor is a diagnostic software for computer systems that detect problems that can lead to data loss, and allows an assessment of whether the hard drive, the file structures and the computer's main memory in order. The software will boot from an external storage medium such as a CD, and enables the analysis of the problem without a running operating system of the computer to be checked.
Ontrack EasyRecovery
The software Ontrack EasyRecovery used to cheaper data recovery and repair, if the skills of a data recovery engineer are not required. It allows access to files (including Microsoft Office files) that can no longer read the regular operating system, and can repair damaged files.
Ontrack Eraser
The software Ontrack Eraser deletes company's internal and confidential data thoroughly by repeated overwriting so that a recovery is no longer possible. This may be necessary, for example when returning lease or hire equipment, sale of computers or users Jump to extract the original data for use by unauthorized persons.
Ontrack PowerControls
PowerControls allows administrators of Microsoft Exchange servers to be able to restore individual mailboxes and folders, but also any number of messages and attachments from. Edb files. The user interface files for the administrator from a client are similar in Outlook accessible. A search function helps in cross- Search for keywords, dates, and attachments. The software requires no backup individual mailboxes more and supports Microsoft NT Backup, VERITAS NetBackup and VERITAS Backup Exec, IBM Tivoli, Legato NetWorker, and Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup formats the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector.