Backup firm sues IT giants

A computer backup recovery firm claims Intel, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Acer and others have aped its patent for quickly restoring a PC after data corruption, reports Channel Register.

Xpoint Technologies is headed by David Wang, credited for the allegedly infringed upon US patents, and claimed member of the original team that developed the first IBM PC.

Patents 7 024 581 and 7 430 686, called Data Processing Recovery System and Method Spanning Multiple Operating Systems, were issued to Xpoint and Wang in April 2006 and September 2008, respectively. The first was filed 9 October 2002.

Data recovery firm Kroll Ontrack has unveiled a new MS SharePoint Server 2007 recovery tool that it says enables IT administrators to easily and efficiently search and restore items from a SharePoint database, reports IDM.

Part of its PowerControls 5.1 product suite, the new recovery tool enables administrators familiar with Ontrack PowerControls software for Exchange to apply the same recovery capabilities to Microsoft's popular enterprise content management (ECM) application.

“While SharePoint Server 2007 has advantageous ECM capabilities, the human management element all too often poses data loss risks to users and companies that rely on this popular data collaboration tool,” says Jim Reinert, VP of product development at Kroll Ontrack.

Evolving Solutions, a business continuity and data disaster recovery solution provider, has introduced the Data Centre Leaders interview series on its Evolving IT Blog, according to pr.com.

Evolving Solutions will leverage this blog interview forum to host discussions on topics pertinent to the IT industry, with prominent speakers, authors, bloggers and other industry notables.

The first post in this series is a discussion with Susan Snedaker, VirtualTeam's principal consultant and author of the book, 'Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning for IT Professionals'.