Data Recovery Newsletters - January 2008

Introducing Ontrack PowerControls 5.0: The Ultimate "Power Tool" for Exchange Administrators

Version 5.0 of the popular email recovery, search and management software tool - Ontrack PowerControls - is now available. This newest version delivers all of the e-mail recovery power and precision of past versions – with a number of potent new features added.

• Set your live Exchange Server as a “target” for searching, moving, copying, exporting or deleting live mailbox items
• Control and track user access and activity via new Administrative Services to mirror your organization’s internal I.T. security policies
• Create new mailboxes on a target Exchange server manually or as part of copy-out process
• Generate reports showing results from each search you perform
• Export single mailboxes or entire EDB store to PST files

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Accessible Data is Critical to Regulatory Compliance

The IT industry has become even more complex in the past few years with the advent of regulatory compliance requirements that all publicly traded companies in the US and other regions must adopt.

Perhaps your organization is already working through these requirements. If you are a consultant or non-publicly traded company, you may not be bound by these regulations - however your clients may be, so this information is critical for anyone in the IT industry.

Regulatory standards affect the broad areas of data privacy, security, retention, protection and accountability. Within these areas, checks and balances act to preserve the information and data. Investigative processes verify the integrity of privacy, security and data protection and audits are required for accountability. Read the full article

Top Ten Data Disasters of 2007

Ontrack Data Recovery has unveiled its fifth annual top ten list of remarkable data loss disasters in 2007. The list includes incidents of hard drives, flash drives and other data storage devices coming into contact with a washing machine, a toddler's bowl of applesauce, and a power drill. Read the full list of data disasters