It is that time of the year again when Kroll Ontrack announces its annual list of the top 10 data disasters from across Europe and the US for 2015. Who knew the Amiga 600 (circa 1992) was still state-of-the-art computing in Poland!

It is that time of the year again when Kroll Ontrack announces its annual list of the top 10 data disasters from across Europe and the US for 2015. Who knew the Amiga 600 (circa 1992) was still state-of-the-art computing in Poland!
With the volume of stored corporate data increasing exponentially year-on-year, this article considers some of the challenges practitioners face in dealing with Merger & Aquisition transactions and the extent to which technology can intervene to assist lawyers.
To coincide with World Backup Day on 31 March (or Easter Sunday in the UK*) Kroll Ontrack has published the results of a survey of 600 recent customers of its Ontrack Data Recovery service. This found that one third of respondents had experienced parsonal data loss and two-thirds had lost business data.