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Data Storage Institute Collaborates with CBL Data Recovery Technologies on Data Storage Media Research and Development

Partnership Aimed at Developing the State-of-the-Art Data Recovery Tool

ARMONK NY / SAN DIEGO, CA — January 31, 2005 — The Data Storage Institute (DSI), ranked among the top five data storage research and development centers worldwide, and CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc. (http://www.cbldatarecovery.com), a leading international provider of computer data recovery services, have signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on research and development projects leading to solutions for issues affecting new data storage media.

Both parties will first work towards establishing a project to develop the world’s first drive-independent hardware tool that will enable CBL to recover close to 100 per cent of lost customer data in scenarios where a magnetic signal is present and the data is still resident on the damaged drive.

“Data recovery is a critical part of business continuity,” says Prof Chong Tow Chong, Executive Director of DSI. “This partnership with CBL provides an excellent opportunity to apply our extensive expertise to solve problems that afflict data storage media in everyday use.”

Currently there is limited capability in the industry to fully recover data from drives even where a strong magnetic signal is present and the data is still resident on the drive. This tool will put CBL in complete control of the media, independent of manufacturer-specific technology and without the need for replacement parts.

The results from this joint collaboration will be invaluable to all industries, especially companies and government organizations involved in forensic activities because it will increase the success rate of data recovery projects from the current industry standard of about 85 per cent to almost 100 per cent.

Both CBL and DSI will call upon each others expertise and experiences in dealing with data storage and recovery technologies to build the state-of-art date recovery tool. It will be able to uncover the damaged portions of the drive without the need for vendor-unique commands.

“We are very excited to have an opportunity to partner with a world class research organization. This MoU demonstrates both parties’ confidence in each other’s expertise as an established, global provider of data storage and recovery technologies,” says CBL Singapore’s Managing Director, Samuel David. “The tool will combine the essence of DSI’s engineering design expertise with the data recovery capabilities of our global network. The output will be a cutting edge tool that recovers data from surfaces deemed of no value in the current scenario.”

About CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc. (www.cbldatarecovery.com)

Founded in 1993, CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc. is the leading independent provider of data recovery services and software. CBL employs proprietary techniques to recover data from storage devices including hard drives, tapes, RAIDs and external storage media. CBL offers services through its global network of data recovery laboratories, offices and authorized partners. In the United States, CBL has data recovery laboratories in Armonk, New York; Atlanta, Georgia; San Diego, California, and Houston, Texas.

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