State Of The Data Recovery Globally

Three Firms

• Kroll Ontrack: Kroll Ontrack, which tops the chart, is the largest data recovery company, with 20 years of experience in the field. Head quartered at New York, Kroll Inc is actually a wholly-owned subsidiary of Marsh and McLennan Companies Inc. (MMC). It offers investigative, intelligence, financial, security and technology services in more than 65 cities, in over 25 countries. Kroll Ontrack is its data recovery division, and provides services from 18 locations in 11 languages worldwide. Its headquarters are at Eden Prairie, Minnesota, U.S.A.



• Micro Com: Micro Com, founded in 1989, is a totally data recovery services firm. They deal with recovering data from RAID, tapes, DVDs, CDs, hard drives and almost all storage devices. They also take business calls directly to pass on to their specialists which is a rarity among top firms as everyone else routes it through the usual help lines and customer care services.
  
  
• Advanced Media Engineering Ltd (AME): AME, based in the South West of England in the city of Exeter, has climbed rapidly up the charts ever since they partnered with the giant Dell. So they have the formidable Dell customer list with them now, and are selling Dell's PCs, laptops, servers etc. AME directors, Steve Westaway and Simon House, both have ten years of experience. They also boast of a team of Microsoft Certified professional services engineers. It is also a SAGE accredited reseller. They have an excellent network among the leading supplier companies, as suggested by the alliances stated above, and utilise this advantage to the hilt while serving their massive corporate customers. Recently, AME has opened a dedicated training centre at Bristol.

• Kroll Ontrack has been highly publicising its 24X7X365 remote recovery services lately. The affected computer is accessed from Kroll's office itself, and the entire recovery process is managed through a remote access system. This makes the recovery process uniquely transparent and cost-effective.



• Micro Com is a self-proclaimed hard drive recovery specialist. The chief engineer of this division has over 20 years of experience, and each engineer of the team has been trained to attain a high level of services.



• AME specialises in providing software solutions to its customers to prevent data loss and do a better data management facilities.

• IBM has pushed in a net income of $ 9.4 billion in 2006. Its total assets are $ 103.2 billion. Number of employees on record is 355,766. Stockholders on record at the end of 2006 were 313,993. They maintain 154 resiliency centres in 55 countries, and had 15,000 recovery contracts at the end of 2006.



• Sungard's annual revenue for 2006 exceeded $ 4 billion. It served more than 25,000 customers in 50 countries, including the 50 largest financial services providers. Sungard has launched a new Advanced Recovery Solution for business with high transactional data.

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