July 15
Technology that suffers the wrath of a catastrophic event like a wildfire is not a pretty sight. Here are some archive photos from the initial findings after wildfires ripped through the community of Fort McMurray, Alberta in 2016 with some pieces that eventually made their way to our labs for recovery assessment.
July 03
A promotional film that IBM made in the 1950s looks at the creation of the first hard disk drive and is a retro video throwback to tech innovation and marketing of the time reminding us how far we’ve come and of artifacts from our own data recovery archives.
CBL Pictures: Too Much
Jul 20, 04:08 pm
A look at a severely fire-damaged server spotted in the lab. Disasters don’t have to mean data loss but fires definitely make recovery much more difficult.
Stranger Data – the Stranger Things We See in the Lab for Recovery
May 30, 05:01 pm
At CBL we’ve seen odd hard drives, and some stranger things, too.
Behind the Big Data: Revealing Our Galaxy's Black Hole
May 18, 12:19 pm
Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope project revealed the first-ever image of the black hole that sits at the center of our galaxy known as Sagittarius A*. It was produced using observation data collected from the network of telescopes situated around the globe. How much data must you compute to get an image of an object that’s 27,000 light-years away, is 4 millions times more massive than our Sun, from a network of telescopes that make a dish the size of the Earth?
CBL Pictures: How it started... How it's going
Feb 17, 04:21 pm
Some devices in the lab recently for recovery service with many years between them reminded us of a social trend comparing old and new.
Interview: Tech Talk with Marc Saltzman, January 9th
Jan 12, 05:35 pm
The first Tech Talk radio show of the year with Marc Saltzman featured a segment with CBL talking about dealing with data disasters, backup tips, data destruction and more.
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