Kroll Ontrack expands into archiving

Adds e-mail, file archiving to its data recovery services

Developments of the week in storage

Kroll Ontrack last week expanded its product offerings into the archive space with the announcement of Ontrack Compass software for e-mail and file archiving.

Kroll Ontrack bolsters data recovery for Macs

Kroll, who acquired Ontrack in 2002, is known for its investigation, intelligence, security and risk mitigation consulting services. Ontrack Data Recovery is best known for its data recovery, electronic discovery and computer forensics services. The acquisition resulted in a new company Kroll Ontrack, a division of Kroll.

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Kroll Ontrack last week expanded its product offerings into the archive space with the announcement of Ontrack Compass software for e-mail and file archiving.

Kroll Ontrack bolsters data recovery for Macs

Kroll, who acquired Ontrack in 2002, is known for its investigation, intelligence, security and risk mitigation consulting services. Ontrack Data Recovery is best known for its data recovery, electronic discovery and computer forensics services. The acquisition resulted in a new company Kroll Ontrack, a division of Kroll.

Together the now-merged company offers Ontrack Compass, software that lets legal and IT personnel to manage data retained for litigation and compliance purposes.

Ontrack Compass lets IT retain e-mail and files its legal counterparts may need for litigation. It administers a legal hold or suspends document destruction. Compass also reduces the amount of data stored with compression and deduplication. The Ontrack Compass archive can be searched, filtered and monitored and data retained and disposed of based on policies IT or legal counsel sets.

The software works with either Microsoft Exchange or IBM/Lotus Notes. It is expected to be available this month.

In other news, Solix Technologies introduced ExAPPs, an application and data retirement appliance. The ExAPPs appliance identifies applications that are no longer used and migrates all their application data to the appliance, where it is stored, deduplicated and compressed. Once data and applications are migrated, users can query the appliance and report on legacy data. The Solix appliance supports Oracle, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server, Informix and MySQL databases as well as JD Edwards, ABaaN, PeopleSoft and Siebel applications.

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Deni Connor is principal analyst for Storage Strategies NOW and host of both the Masters of Storage and Masters of Servers Solution Centers.