Breakthrough technology brings data back to life

A company that specialises in rescuing business critical data that has been damaged has come up with a new technology which it claims can recover data from media that is so badly damaged it cannot be recovered by any current means.

ActionFront Data Recovery Labs used the platform of the NASA/IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems - currently taking place in the U.S. – to showcase its new SignalTrace technology.

Charles Sobey, chief scientist of technology consulting firm ChannelScience, who assisted in the development of SignalTrace, said the technology has the capabilities needed for commercially viable recovery of data that is unrecoverable using traditional part-replacement.

"SignalTrace replaces the exacting, optimised signal processing and positioning functions of 'hyper-tuned' disk drives with custom hardware, software, and algorithms to precisely locate particular sectors of data and recover each user bit individually – independent of the drive's specific hardware."

Sobey went on to detail the specific markets that would benefit the most form the new technology.

"This is an important development for data recovery in general, but it is crucial for the data forensics, intelligence and counter-terrorism specialists who analyse computer systems seized from criminals or enemies that have damaged their systems in order to conceal evidence."

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