Our History
Kroll Ontrack's roots were planted in 1985 with the development of Disk Manager®, a software program that makes the process of installing a computer hard disk much easier. Disk Manager remains a top-selling software product, and, to date, more than 150-million copies of Disk Manager have sold worldwide.
The success of Disk Manager led the company into the business of recovering data from damaged hard disk drives, resulting in the formation of ONTRACK Data Recovery in 1987. ONTRACK Data Recovery pioneered the tools and techniques for the data recovery industry.
As the demand for data recovery services grew, the company evolved in size, product and service offerings and expertise.
| 1991 |
ONTRACK Data Recovery expands into Europe. |
| 1995 |
ONTRACK Data Recovery forms an alliance with Y-E Data, bringing data recovery services to Japan. ONTRACK also begins offering electronic evidence services as it receives requests from attorneys, law enforcement agencies and investigators to perform data recovery services to recover deleted information from computers while, at the same time, keeping a chain-of-custody record. |
| 1996 |
ONTRACK recovers a corporation's data that was lost when a former employee launched a computer "time bomb" into the company's technology infrastructure. ONTRACK experts forensically investigated the source of the computer time bomb and offered expert testimony in a court of law. ONTRACK formally launches what is now known as its computer forensics business group. |
| 1999 |
ONTRACK assists an AmLaw Top 200 law firm with an antitrust merger investigation, using newly developed data filtering, keyword searching and deduplication technology. This e-discovery project involved a wide array of operating systems, email packages and software applications from over 200 data custodians and resulted in 4.3 million pages of potentially responsive documents. ONTRACK's full service e-disclosure services are formally launched. |
| 2002 |
Kroll Inc. acquires ONTRACK Data International and forms a new wholly owned subsidiary of Kroll named Kroll Ontrack Inc., creating Kroll Inc.'s "Technology Services Group." Under TSG, Kroll Inc. markets its electronic disclosure and computer forensics services under the brand name "Kroll Ontrack" and markets the data recovery software and services under the brand name "Ontrack Data Recovery." |
| 2003 |
Kroll Inc. acquires Oyez Legal Technologies Limited, the U.K market leader in litigation support and legal information management services, from the OyezStraker Group Limited. Kroll Ontrack begins to offer full service Legal Technologies solutions to the U.K. |
| 2004 |
Kroll Inc. acquires Quorum Litigation Services, a leading litigation support company. The integration of Kroll Ontrack's longstanding expertise in electronic evidence with Quorum's longstanding expertise in the handling of paper-based documents gives legal professionals faster, easier and more cost-effective document disclosure and management solutions from a single, unified source. |
| 2004 |
Marsh & McLennan (MMC) acquires Kroll in Q2 2004. |
| 2006 |
Kroll Ontrack acquires Norway's Ibas Holdings, a provider of data recovery, data erasure and computer forensics services and Engenium Corporation, owners of patented conceptual search technology. |
| 2007 |
Kroll Ontrack launches its electronically stored information (ESI) consulting practice to help corporations and outside counsel navigate through technical intricacies and legal standards associated with the accessibility of electronically stored information and other technical issues relating to electronic disclosure. |
| 2007 |
Kroll Ontrack acquires TrialGraphix, Inc., leading provider of trial consulting and presentation services, to enable law firms and corporations to engage one expert for their litigation consulting and technology needs from pre-litigation preparedness, through disclosure and trial. |
