Data recovery firm can find ‘needle in a haystack’ Expert staff have skills not taught in universities

Ronan Kennedy, managing director, Critical Data Services Picture: Fergal Phillips

Critical Data Services is involved in the delicate business of retrieving data, a skill that has led to it expanding into overseas markets such as Britain and Switzerland with a highly specialised tape data recovery service.

“It’s really a service for banks and insurance companies that have a huge amount of back-up data that has been created over a long period of time. It’s not on a hard drive. Instead, they use magnetic ...