by David Zax, Technology Review
A new study from Kroll Ontrack about data recovery services points to the ways data–and our tendency to lose it–has transformed our lives. Kroll Ontrack crunched the numbers on the data recovery services it had performed over the years (it’s been in the business for a quarter-century). The most startling statistic? Today, Kroll Ontrack recovers 35 million GB of data a year (35 PB)–a suitably huge number. But in 1987, Kroll Ontrack only recovered a measly 1.2 GB of data, total–the merest fraction of what your laptop’s hard drive is capable of holding. As our creation and use of data has skyrocketed over the years, it’s no surprise to learn that data recovery had become a bigger and bigger deal.
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