Data recovery and management necessitates mastery of a huge amount of raw data. At John Bordynuik, Inc. (JBI), we have a proven track record of efficiently and confidentially handling massive volumes of information. This includes the sensor data NASA amassed and stored on thousands of tapes -- all considered “national assets” – which we translated into a format that can be accessed from a single hard disk drive. During this procedure, not a single bit of data was lost or compromised.
Data Is Safeguarded During Every Step of Recovery
Because of the extremely complicated and detail-oriented nature of data recovery and management, we have developed a patent-pending process for managing our approach to data recovery. Nearly as important for efficient data recovery as our custom hardware, our unique method allows us to easily extract, verify and authenticate all of the information contained on even the largest shipments of tapes.
When a group of tapes arrives at our headquarters in Niagara Falls, Ontario, or is processed by our Mobile Data Recovery unit, we employ the following steps:
- RFID tag the tape: Radio waves are used to identify and track every tape, ensuring that every tape is accounted for throughout the entire process, and eliminating the possibility that human error could cause lost data.
- Photograph the tape: Photographs provide a visual record of every tape.
- Transcribe all information on the tape’s label: An electronic record is made of the information on every tape’s exterior.
- Remove moisture from the tape: Our unique moisture removal system allows us to dehydrate large batches of tapes, removing moisture that makes them sticky and hard to read. Our in-house chemist continues to refine this technique.
- Read the tape: A tape can be read in about 15 minutes, during which time we capture a digitalized image of the tape signal and ensure that all data is preserved. Each of our custom hard drives automatically reads the RFID tag on each tape and then loads, reads, and unloads the tape, allowing one operator to oversee 18 hard drives at one time and process 700 reel to reel tapes per shift.
- Analyze the data: Our Swahili Engine takes the ambiguous set of bits that has been imaged and translates it into a format that can be understood by today’s computers.
- Output the data in a long-term storage format: By saving every original bit of data in this format, we ensure that it will never again become unreadable, even when technology inevitably changes. We then present the data in whatever format our client has requested. All of the data is fully searchable, including all of the information saved on the original tape labels and the tapes themselves.
