KLDiscovery Ontrack

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KLDiscovery Ontrack LLC

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legal form LLC
founding 1985/1996
Seat Minneapolis , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Christopher Weiler ( Chief Executive Officer )
Number of employees 1,200 (August 2014)
Branch Data Recovery
Computer Forensics
Erase Data
Website www.ontrack.com/de

The company KLDiscovery Ontrack GmbH is the German subsidiary of the US KLDiscovery and his daughter Ontrack , which in the areas of data recovery , data erasure , data conversion and computer forensics electronic evidence is active. The company has developed tools and methods that, as software solutions or services, help both companies and individuals to restore important data on computers that have become illegible for various reasons. Until 2018 the company was still called KrolLDiscovery and its subsidiaryKroll Ontrack .

Ownership

Ontrack , headquartered in Minneapolis, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of KLDiscovery and has offices and laboratories in Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, Tokyo, and since 1991 also in Europe, e.g. B. in London (regional management Europe), Paris, Böblingen, Zurich, Milan, Lugano, Moscow and Katowice (Poland). The headquarters of the German branch is in Böblingen .

Company history

Ontrack was founded in 1985 and launched Disk Manager software for managing hard drives. In 1991 a branch was founded in Europe, followed by branches in Washington DC and Los Angeles in 1992. In Japan, YE Data has been collaborating on data recovery since 1995 . In 1996 the German branch in Böblingen was opened and the company went public on the New York NASDAQ stock exchange . In 1997 the product Remote Data Recovery was presented. In 1998 the branch opened in France and the Tiramisu company was taken over with a data recovery tool , which was then brought to the market as EasyRecovery . In 1999 the company Mijenix was taken over and a branch was opened in Boulder .

In June 2002 the Ontrack company was taken over by Kroll Inc., founded in 1972, and as Kroll Ontrack Inc. one of five branches of the "Technology Service Group" division of Kroll Inc. The "Technology Service Group" deals with security services, "Kroll Ontrack “Became the brand name for computer forensics and“ Ontrack Data Recovery ”the brand name for data recovery. Due to the high demand for data recovery services, the company expanded in the following years and opened additional branches. On July 8, 2004, "Kroll Inc." was taken over by "Marsh & Mc Lennan Companies Inc.". In January 2006 the competitor "Ibas Holdings ASA" from Norway was taken over, which in turn had bought "Vogon Ltd." from England in 2005.

In 2007, an electronic evidence ( ESI ) advisory team was established. This is intended to support companies and legal advisers in dealing with technical requirements and legal standards. In the same year "TrialGraphix Inc.", a leading provider of process consulting and litigation services, was taken over. In 2010 “Altegrity Inc.” (screening and security solutions) bought Kroll Inc., the parent company of Kroll Ontrack. In 2011, Kroll Ontrack expanded its range of services to include the Internal Audit & Compliance Review service , which supports organizations in the proactive detection of internal legal violations. In the same year Kroll Ontrack entered the market for services for electronic disclosure of evidence with the software Verve .

In January 2018, KrolLDiscovery was renamed KLDiscovery , and a rebranding of the Kroll Ontrack brand on Ontrack for data recovery was initiated . The German branch is KLDiscovery Ontrack GmbH .

Services

Data recovery is the most important line of business with over 100,000 data recovery requests a year. Another line of business is computer forensics , recovery and backup e.g. B. of deleted data. Ontrack also offers data recovery via a secure modem or Internet connection, the Remote Data Recovery (RDR).

Software products

Ontrack Data Advisor

Ontrack Data Advisor is computer system diagnostic software that detects problems that can lead to data loss and allows an assessment to be made of whether the hard disk drive, file structures, and computer memory are OK. The software boots from an external storage medium, for example a CD, and enables problem analysis without the operating system of the computer to be checked being running.

Ontrack EasyRecovery

Ontrack EasyRecovery software is designed for cheaper data recovery and repair when the skills of a data recovery engineer are not required. It enables access to files (including Microsoft Office files) that the normal operating system can no longer read and can repair damaged files.

Ontrack Eraser

The Ontrack Eraser software thoroughly deletes in-house and confidential data by overwriting it several times, so that recovery is no longer possible. This may be necessary, for example, when leasing or renting equipment is returned, when computers are sold or when users change, in order to prevent the original data from being used by unauthorized persons.

Ontrack PowerControls

PowerControls enables administrators of Microsoft Exchange servers to restore individual mailboxes and folders, but also any number of messages and attachments, from .edb files. The files can be accessed by the administrator from a client via the user interface in a similar way to Outlook . A search function helps with the comprehensive search for keywords, data and attachments. The software no longer requires backup of individual mailboxes and supports Microsoft NT Backup, VERITAS NetBackup and VERITAS Backup Exec as well as IBM Tivoli, LEGATO NetWorker and Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve as well as the data backup formats of HP OpenView Storage Data Protector.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KrolLDiscovery rebrands itself to become KLDiscovery. KLDiscovery will serve as the parent company and brand for the global legal technologies business while Ontrack will once again serve as the data recovery brand. GlobeNewswire, January 2, 2018, accessed September 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ [1] Press release on the rebrand. Retrieved January 11, 2018.