Buy OnlineOntrack Data Recovery 20th Anniversary
In 1985, Ontrack Data Recovery founders, Michael Rogers, John Pence and Gary Stevens saw a need in the disk drive market and developed their first product, Disk Manager® software, a hard disk installation utility. When introduced, Disk Manager software broke the then current 32 megabyte size limit in DOS and allowed access to the new larger 40 megabyte hard drives.
Two years later, the company performed its first data recovery service job and averaged about one recovery per week that year. How things have changed!
To celebrate 20 years of data recovery success, Kroll Ontrack invites you to take a look back at how the computing world – and rest of the world - has changed in 20 years.
Ontrack Data Recovery |
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1987 |
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2007 |
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# of Ontrack Data Recovery Facilities |
1 |
30 | ||
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# of Recoveries Performed |
Less than 50 |
More than 50,000 | ||
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Amount of Data Recovered |
Less than 1 GB |
More than 4 Million GB | ||
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Recovery Methods |
Cleanroom only |
In-lab, on-site, Remote, or Do-It-Yourself Software | ||
Computing |
1987 |
2007 | ||
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# of computers worldwide |
Less than 50 Million |
More than 1 Billion | ||
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Average hard drive capacity |
30 MB |
80 GB | ||
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Latest Version of Microsoft Windows® |
Windows® 2.0 |
Windows® Vista | ||
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Top Selling Home Computer |
IBM PS-2 |
HP Pavilion | ||
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Top Selling PC game |
Tetris |
World of Warcraft | ||
Other Facts |
1987 |
2007 | ||
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World Population |
5.0 Billion |
6.5 Billion | ||
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Billboard 200 Top Album |
“Slippery When Wet”, Bon Jovi |
“Lost Highway”, | ||
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Billboard Hot 100 Top Single |
“Walk Like an Egyptian”, The Bangles |
“Umbrella”, | ||
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Best Picture - The Oscars® |
Platoon |
The Departed | ||
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Best TV Drama - The Emmys® |
L.A. Law |
24 | ||
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Best TV Comedy - The Emmys® |
The Golden Girls |
The Office | ||
