CBL Innovation minimises RAID failure impact

Data recovery services provider CBL Data Recovery Technologies has announced the deployment of a new software utility that it claims radically reduces the time it takes to recover data from crashed multiple disk RAID arrays and other storage systems such as SANs and NASs.

The software removes the need for customers to ship an entire server to CBL's recovery labs, instead moving the affected disk drives, thus minimising disruption to business while the data recovery efforts are underway. In addition, the OnmiRAID software allows CBL 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," said CBL’s head of research and development, Jeremy Brooks. "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."

CBL's OmniRAID software has been designed to work with any RAID vendor or combination of controllers, scheme or encoding system.

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

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