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CBL Data Recovery is a privately held provider of computer Data recovery services and software for clients experiencing data loss due to hardware failure, natural disaster, software corruption, virus contamination or human error.

History
Bill Margeson and Zhengong Chang co-founded CBL Data Recovery Technologies in 1993 in Markham, Ontario near Toronto. In the beginning, their service ambitions revolved around hardware failure and repair services. However, it became clear that users were more interested in the data being stored on data storage media like hard disk drives, rather than the physical devices themselves. As hard drive capacities continued to increase exponentially, the amount of valuable data being stored on them increased. This fueled demand for data to be retrieved in the case of failures. The spread of internet availability and use and PCs increased demand for the company's services. Growth was so fast in the first years of CBL's life that it was noted as one of Canada's fastest growing companies

Data recovery operations range from CBL data recovery labs to partnerships with Small and medium enterprises, technology service providers, larger corporate entities and government organizations. The company was a participant in a Trade Mission to China in conjunction with the Canadian Governement. The firm has also been featured in numerous print and television media including a Discovery Channel feature. Customers include large enterprises, small businesses, home users, celebrities and even disasters where data has been lost like capsized boats.

Services
Services cover both physical media types and logical errors. It can recover data from hard disk drives, solid state drives, smartphones, servers, media used to store data in portable electronic devices like digital cameras. Software applications are also available to deal with file deletion and logical errors - CBL Pro-V and CBL Data Recovery Software. A free utility to aid in secure erasure, the opposite of data recovery, CBL Data Shredder has rounded out the companies offerings.

RAID recovery
Storage configurations utilizing RAID technology have also been a focus of the company's recovery services. RAID reached the consumer market thanks to advances in DMA Modes and ATAPI. Thus it became increasingly popular and common at all levels of computer use from business servers to home users. Development of innovative tools to respond to help reduce recovery times for multidisk RAID failures became necessary.