Loss of data is a too common problem and can happen anytime to anyone. Why does this occur? Even though there is no definite reason, a number of factors ranging from computer crash to virus attack do appear to be decisive. It may be that you are the next prey of this unfortunate development. What can you do then save for crying in despair? There is a good way; you have to go for data recovery.
But remember that data recovery is a knotty process of relieving data from a nonfunctional secondary storage device as a result of the happening of any physical or logical damage in the storage media. What does the process entail? The process does involve a scientific approach to recover all the data and information that was lost from such a computer crash, virus attack or hard disk malfunction.
By now, the notion of data recovery has become a vital part of each operating system that depends upon the storage media; as a result, it has become a basic essential for colossal business enterprises, entity and every such individual who is connected with the IT world.
Even though, data recovery severities differ depending on your type of storage device. the basic objective to recover every single byte of information and shield you and your business from every possible loss remains same. All these indicate that data recovery has rendered an entirely new perception to the theme of data transfer via: USB pen drives, USB memory sticks, USB thumb drives, multimedia cards, USB flash drives, iPhones, cell phones, etc.
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Soaring demand for Computer Data Recovery Services
The market is seeing flourishing business opportunities in the data recovery sector and many firms specialize in recovering data lost due to power surges & outages, static electricity, lightning strikes, fires, floods, other natural disasters, sabotage, viruses, equipment malfunctions, accidents & user error (deleted files, formatted / f-disked drives) are minting money.
With the advancement in the computer data recovery services, one has very little to worry about data loss. Mr. Subramayam, Chief IT consultant was quoted as saying, “There is a new technology being employed everyday. One does not wants to loose out on important data. It is unintelligent to assume you have lost your data forever due to system failures. There are numerous instances where we have managed to successfully retrieve data lost due to mechanical failure, broken drives, and viruses, errors made by user, static electricity or natural calamities.”
An impressive success rate has been observed in the services offered by computer data recovery companies. Many business owners also swear for the fast turn around time of these companies. A noted entrepreneur Mr. Seth elaborates, “It’s a competitive market. If I loose some data, I need to get it soon or else I end up loosing a lot of money.”
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With the advancement in the computer data recovery services, one has very little to worry about data loss. Mr. Subramayam, Chief IT consultant was quoted as saying, “There is a new technology being employed everyday. One does not wants to loose out on important data. It is unintelligent to assume you have lost your data forever due to system failures. There are numerous instances where we have managed to successfully retrieve data lost due to mechanical failure, broken drives, and viruses, errors made by user, static electricity or natural calamities.”
An impressive success rate has been observed in the services offered by computer data recovery companies. Many business owners also swear for the fast turn around time of these companies. A noted entrepreneur Mr. Seth elaborates, “It’s a competitive market. If I loose some data, I need to get it soon or else I end up loosing a lot of money.”
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Use Notebook Data Recovery techniques to solve hard disk crash issues
So, you have brought a new notebook? It is an easy to carry equipment and simplifies your everyday processes. But have you confirmed about the warranty of the hard drive. Even if you asked, then the dealer might have said that the drive is reliable. This statement doesn't ensure that the drive would serve you for several years. They are prone to crashes and you'll need notebook data recovery tools at your disposal.
At times, you'll think why does the drive crash? This question is incomplete until you know about the function of the hard drive. It is a secondary storage device. It stores system software and data files. The data are saved on the circular platters of the drive. It is read with help of read/write heads. Ideally, the drives were manufactured error free. But technology made them susceptible to hardware crash and notebook data recovery.
The internal parts of the hard drive consist of mechanical disks. The data is stored on the mechanically coated platters that save data along the tracks and sectors. The data are accessed via heads that are minutely placed on the top and bottom of the platters. Usually, there is no gap for the entrance of dust particles. But the disk gets crashed if a single dust particle enters the platter surface.
The hard drive can also crash due to heat impact. This leads to data loss and problems while booting the computer. Hence, you'll have to visit a notebook data recovery expert to get your computer data. They'll retrieve the data from data recovery techniques as well as repair the damaged hard disk. You can also get the data from notebook data recovery software. However, you'll need technical assistance to do the job.
So, there's no need to panic, if your hard disk crashes. You can get the data easily by data recovery techniques.
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At times, you'll think why does the drive crash? This question is incomplete until you know about the function of the hard drive. It is a secondary storage device. It stores system software and data files. The data are saved on the circular platters of the drive. It is read with help of read/write heads. Ideally, the drives were manufactured error free. But technology made them susceptible to hardware crash and notebook data recovery.
The internal parts of the hard drive consist of mechanical disks. The data is stored on the mechanically coated platters that save data along the tracks and sectors. The data are accessed via heads that are minutely placed on the top and bottom of the platters. Usually, there is no gap for the entrance of dust particles. But the disk gets crashed if a single dust particle enters the platter surface.
The hard drive can also crash due to heat impact. This leads to data loss and problems while booting the computer. Hence, you'll have to visit a notebook data recovery expert to get your computer data. They'll retrieve the data from data recovery techniques as well as repair the damaged hard disk. You can also get the data from notebook data recovery software. However, you'll need technical assistance to do the job.
So, there's no need to panic, if your hard disk crashes. You can get the data easily by data recovery techniques.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Improves Granular Data Recovery Software for Microsoft Exchange Server
OfficeRecovery.com has released a new version of Visual Recovery for Exchange Server, its granular data recovery software for Microsoft Exchange Server.
The utility presents offline email database in the form of a folder tree and lists of messages. Folders and individual messages can then be marked for subsequent export into PST files.
The latest release of the data recovery tool now supports all Exchange Server versions up to 2007, including most recent service packs. The product performance on heavily corrupted Exchange email databases has been improved both speed- and quality-wise.
The typical time for Visual Recovery for Exchange Server to prepare a 16Gb EDB file for browsing has been reduced to less than 10 minutes, although it may vary depending on database complexity and the extent of damage. After the initial database scan is completed, the data is readily available for granular export.
“I encourage Exchange administrators to use Visual Recovery as the default tool for exporting items from offline EDB files in the course of daily data management routines. A very important feature of the software is its capability to handle corrupted databases which cannot be mounted anymore, and this is what makes it a must-have element of a sensible disaster recovery plan,” says Emil Sildos, Recoveronix CEO.
Visual Recovery for Exchange Server prices start at US $799 for a Standard license. The license allows one installation of the product, use for one server and imposes a 16Gb size limit for databases being recovered. Other types of licenses are Enterprise, allowing two servers and no database size limit, and 1-Year Service, a special license for companies providing data recovery services.
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The utility presents offline email database in the form of a folder tree and lists of messages. Folders and individual messages can then be marked for subsequent export into PST files.
The latest release of the data recovery tool now supports all Exchange Server versions up to 2007, including most recent service packs. The product performance on heavily corrupted Exchange email databases has been improved both speed- and quality-wise.
The typical time for Visual Recovery for Exchange Server to prepare a 16Gb EDB file for browsing has been reduced to less than 10 minutes, although it may vary depending on database complexity and the extent of damage. After the initial database scan is completed, the data is readily available for granular export.
“I encourage Exchange administrators to use Visual Recovery as the default tool for exporting items from offline EDB files in the course of daily data management routines. A very important feature of the software is its capability to handle corrupted databases which cannot be mounted anymore, and this is what makes it a must-have element of a sensible disaster recovery plan,” says Emil Sildos, Recoveronix CEO.
Visual Recovery for Exchange Server prices start at US $799 for a Standard license. The license allows one installation of the product, use for one server and imposes a 16Gb size limit for databases being recovered. Other types of licenses are Enterprise, allowing two servers and no database size limit, and 1-Year Service, a special license for companies providing data recovery services.
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Monday, September 28, 2009
New Data Recovery Service Targets Apple VARs
The new Data Recovery Portal for Apple offers Apple Service providers a way to easily track data recovery service and ensure warranties remain intact when outsourcing data recovery to Kroll Ontrack.
Kroll Ontrack today targeted Apple VARs with a new product that will offer Apple partners more control over the data recovery services they can offer to customers.
The new Data Recovery Portal for Apple offers Apple Service providers a way to easily track data recovery service and ensure warranties remain intact when outsourcing data recovery to Kroll Ontrack.
“This was created from direct feedback that we received from Apple and some of the Authorized Service Providers that they needed a way to do business with us when their customers had a data loss situation,” says Todd Johnson, vice president of data recovery operations for Kroll Ontrack. “They needed a way that was seamless, straightforward, easy to use and they could engage with us in real time.”
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Kroll Ontrack today targeted Apple VARs with a new product that will offer Apple partners more control over the data recovery services they can offer to customers.
The new Data Recovery Portal for Apple offers Apple Service providers a way to easily track data recovery service and ensure warranties remain intact when outsourcing data recovery to Kroll Ontrack.
“This was created from direct feedback that we received from Apple and some of the Authorized Service Providers that they needed a way to do business with us when their customers had a data loss situation,” says Todd Johnson, vice president of data recovery operations for Kroll Ontrack. “They needed a way that was seamless, straightforward, easy to use and they could engage with us in real time.”
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Liberty Power Adds Disaster Recovery Suites at 1Vault Networks and Improves Customer Data Protection and Access
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ --Liberty Power, one of the fastest-growing retail electric providers in the United States, has improved its guarantee of customer service continuity by contracting with 1Vault Networks to provide two disaster recovery suites at 1Vault's Business Continuity bunker. Liberty Power also added a fully redundant Metro-E Circuit to interconnect their co-located IT servers with their headquarters. Liberty Power has partnered with 1Vault since 2006 and completed this most recent data center upgrade to meet the company's growing compliance demands.
Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Liberty Power is licensed to sell electricity in 16 states, and currently serves tens of thousands of customers, including small and mid-size businesses, numerous Fortune 500 companies, as well as municipalities and national government agencies. Recognized as an Inc. 500 company in 2008, Liberty Power continues to demonstrate solid growth, increasing revenues in 2008 by more than 50 percent over the previous reporting year.
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Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Liberty Power is licensed to sell electricity in 16 states, and currently serves tens of thousands of customers, including small and mid-size businesses, numerous Fortune 500 companies, as well as municipalities and national government agencies. Recognized as an Inc. 500 company in 2008, Liberty Power continues to demonstrate solid growth, increasing revenues in 2008 by more than 50 percent over the previous reporting year.
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Improves Granular Data Recovery Software for Microsoft Exchange Server
The data recovery tool now supports all Exchange Server versions up to 2007 including latest service packs. The product performance on heavily damaged email databases has been improved both speed- and quality-wise.
The typical time for Visual Recovery for Exchange Server to prepare a 16Gb EDB file for browsing has been reduced to less than 10 minutes, although it may vary depending on database complexity and the extent of damage. After the initial database scan is completed, the data is presented in the form of a folder tree and lists of messages. Folders and individual messages can be marked for subsequent export into PST files.
"I encourage Exchange administrators to use Visual Recovery as the default tool for exporting items from offline EDB files in the course of daily data management routines. A very important feature of the software is its capability to handle corrupted databases which cannot be mounted anymore, and this is what makes it a must-have," says Emil Sildos, Recoveronix CEO.
Visual Recovery for Exchange prices start at US $799 for a standard license. The license allows one installation of the product, use for one server and imposes a 16Gb size limit for databases being recovered. Other types of licenses are Enterprise, allowing two servers and no database size limit, and 1-Year Service, a special license for companies providing data recovery services.
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The typical time for Visual Recovery for Exchange Server to prepare a 16Gb EDB file for browsing has been reduced to less than 10 minutes, although it may vary depending on database complexity and the extent of damage. After the initial database scan is completed, the data is presented in the form of a folder tree and lists of messages. Folders and individual messages can be marked for subsequent export into PST files.
"I encourage Exchange administrators to use Visual Recovery as the default tool for exporting items from offline EDB files in the course of daily data management routines. A very important feature of the software is its capability to handle corrupted databases which cannot be mounted anymore, and this is what makes it a must-have," says Emil Sildos, Recoveronix CEO.
Visual Recovery for Exchange prices start at US $799 for a standard license. The license allows one installation of the product, use for one server and imposes a 16Gb size limit for databases being recovered. Other types of licenses are Enterprise, allowing two servers and no database size limit, and 1-Year Service, a special license for companies providing data recovery services.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Safe Systems Acquiring Division of Total Data Services – Strategic Enhancement for Safe Systems to Further Strengthen Expertise and Service Delivery of IT Solutions to Financial Institutions
ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Safe Systems, Inc. announced today the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire the network services division of Total Data Services, Inc., a recognized leader in providing technology solutions for mission critical computing environments within the financial industry. This move solidifies Safe Systems’ strategic efforts toward becoming a national leader of IT and compliance services exclusively for financial institutions. This move will also strengthen Safe Systems’ technical expertise and services and broaden their customer base while increasing opportunities for growth, channel expertise, and brand leadership.
Safe Systems’ interest in pursuing this acquisition was derived from the strategic decision to increase market share and national visibility across the United States. According to the FDIC and NCUA, there are currently 9,459 community banks and 7,806 credit unions nationally. With the current economic downturn, banking surveys and researchers have recently concluded that higher-performing financial institutions are shifting their business focus to expense management and cost control, looking to automate the delivery of services and free up their skilled employees toward activities that support revenue generation. To keep costs down, financial institutions are now looking for new ways to outsource or co-manage their mundane and repetitive tasks to increase revenues and enhance productivity. Safe Systems understands this underserved market trend and has made this acquisition to better deliver their value proposition of providing co-managed and fully outsourced IT services to financial institutions across the nation.
Stan Mooney, CEO of Total Data Services, commented, “We have had a strategic partnership with Safe Systems for many years. Their attention to quality and emphasis on customer service in the financial industry closely mirrors that of our own. We are excited about the opportunity of combining our years of expertise, superior service delivery, and our leading technology solutions to exceed the expectations of all our current and future financial institution clients.”
“This acquisition will leverage the economies of scale and strengths of both companies to provide more scalable, flexible, and cost effective solutions to our clients,” said Darren Bridges, Safe Systems’ President. “Furthermore, this acquisition will enhance the capabilities of our managed services, enabling Safe Systems to provide outstanding levels of customer support and to give our clients the utmost confidence in our ability to keep their own businesses connected and highly available.”
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Safe Systems’ interest in pursuing this acquisition was derived from the strategic decision to increase market share and national visibility across the United States. According to the FDIC and NCUA, there are currently 9,459 community banks and 7,806 credit unions nationally. With the current economic downturn, banking surveys and researchers have recently concluded that higher-performing financial institutions are shifting their business focus to expense management and cost control, looking to automate the delivery of services and free up their skilled employees toward activities that support revenue generation. To keep costs down, financial institutions are now looking for new ways to outsource or co-manage their mundane and repetitive tasks to increase revenues and enhance productivity. Safe Systems understands this underserved market trend and has made this acquisition to better deliver their value proposition of providing co-managed and fully outsourced IT services to financial institutions across the nation.
Stan Mooney, CEO of Total Data Services, commented, “We have had a strategic partnership with Safe Systems for many years. Their attention to quality and emphasis on customer service in the financial industry closely mirrors that of our own. We are excited about the opportunity of combining our years of expertise, superior service delivery, and our leading technology solutions to exceed the expectations of all our current and future financial institution clients.”
“This acquisition will leverage the economies of scale and strengths of both companies to provide more scalable, flexible, and cost effective solutions to our clients,” said Darren Bridges, Safe Systems’ President. “Furthermore, this acquisition will enhance the capabilities of our managed services, enabling Safe Systems to provide outstanding levels of customer support and to give our clients the utmost confidence in our ability to keep their own businesses connected and highly available.”
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Maryland firm wins contract to revamp Recovery.gov
The General Services Administration announced on Wednesday that Smartronix, Inc. was awarded an $18 million contract to redesign Recovery.gov, the federal Web site that tracks stimulus funds.
GSA awarded the contract, which has an initial value of $9.5 million through January 2010, to the Hollywood, Md., technology firm on behalf of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. The board is responsible for overseeing funds from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. If all options are exercised through January 2014, the total task order value could reach $18 million.
"Recovery.gov 2.0 will use innovative and interactive technologies to help taxpayers see where their dollars are being spent," said James A. Williams, commissioner of GSA's Federal Acquisition Service. "Armed with easy access to this information, taxpayers can make government more accountable for its decisions."
Under the contract, Smartronix is expected to provide the Recovery Board with a dynamic Web site that will allow the public to track exactly how stimulus funds are spent. Recovery Board spokesman Ed Pound emphasized that the contract involves much more than simply redesigning the Web site and includes building an online infrastructure that can interface with the system that the Environmental Protection Agency uses for reporting and collecting stimulus data.
Smartronix also will be responsible for hosting and maintaining the site, which must be up and running by Oct. 10, the first deadline for recipients to file reports on the use of stimulus funds. The company did not respond on Thursday to a request for comment. Records of campaign donors show Smartronix executives have given $19,000 to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., since 1999, but the lawmaker's office said Hoyer did not know anything about the contract, and the office was informed about the award only Tuesday night.
"This is a very high-risk venture we're involved in here, given the time constraints. No question about it," Pound said. "We're really committed to doing this right. There are going to be bumps along the road, but we do have a plan, are executing it and feel comfortable with what we're doing. We know what our job is: to get this information to the public and we're going to do that."
Pound said Recovery.gov will allow the public to track stimulus funds down to the last dollar, and follow information on loan and grant recipients. That information is not currently offered on the federal transparency site USASpending.gov, which focuses on contract data.
"Other sites have done certain things, but no one's doing what we're doing. We're going to track every dollar from the prime recipient down to the subrecipient," Pound said, adding Recovery Board Chairman Earl Devaney has managed to procure enough technical personnel from other agencies to ensure the board is comfortable with its level of in-house technical expertise.
The Smartronix contract is the first award on GSA's Alliant vehicle, which was won in March one year after a protest derailed the original awards. Some open government advocates criticized GSA for limiting its solicitation to the 59 vendors on the Alliant contract. GSA received three bids and chose Smartronix.
"What we want is to make this process more open to people," said Clay Johnson, director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to increasing government transparency. "There's lots of good technology not offered by these 59 companies that does not reach the government, even though it's cheaper, better and faster."
Johnson said his organization's top priority for Recovery.gov is ensuring that the raw reporting data is available to the public in a machine-readable format. He said this is crucial because media and private sector Web sites will always have more readers and resources than those operated by the government.
"The real transparency is the bulk data and it's something they [Recovery Board] can do quickly," Johnson said.
The Recovery Board has already announced that the public will have access to the same machine-readable data that the board will use to update the site.
"We will post it almost as soon as we get it. We get it on [Oct.] 10 and the law allows 20 days, but we're not waiting 20 days," Pound said. "We're going to post it, it will be raw data with errors, but at some point along the line the recipients -- not the board -- will have to control the errors, hopefully, within the 20-day window."
Pound said Devaney hopes that by making the stimulus funds easy to track from top to bottom, he can enlist the American public to help him uncover any fraud and abuse.
"Earl came up with the phrase 'citizen inspector general' -- that there will be millions of citizen IGs who will help us uncover stuff," Pound said. "When the local mayor's brother-in-law gets a contract, how would an IG know? We look at the American people as partners in this."
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GSA awarded the contract, which has an initial value of $9.5 million through January 2010, to the Hollywood, Md., technology firm on behalf of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. The board is responsible for overseeing funds from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. If all options are exercised through January 2014, the total task order value could reach $18 million.
"Recovery.gov 2.0 will use innovative and interactive technologies to help taxpayers see where their dollars are being spent," said James A. Williams, commissioner of GSA's Federal Acquisition Service. "Armed with easy access to this information, taxpayers can make government more accountable for its decisions."
Under the contract, Smartronix is expected to provide the Recovery Board with a dynamic Web site that will allow the public to track exactly how stimulus funds are spent. Recovery Board spokesman Ed Pound emphasized that the contract involves much more than simply redesigning the Web site and includes building an online infrastructure that can interface with the system that the Environmental Protection Agency uses for reporting and collecting stimulus data.
Smartronix also will be responsible for hosting and maintaining the site, which must be up and running by Oct. 10, the first deadline for recipients to file reports on the use of stimulus funds. The company did not respond on Thursday to a request for comment. Records of campaign donors show Smartronix executives have given $19,000 to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., since 1999, but the lawmaker's office said Hoyer did not know anything about the contract, and the office was informed about the award only Tuesday night.
"This is a very high-risk venture we're involved in here, given the time constraints. No question about it," Pound said. "We're really committed to doing this right. There are going to be bumps along the road, but we do have a plan, are executing it and feel comfortable with what we're doing. We know what our job is: to get this information to the public and we're going to do that."
Pound said Recovery.gov will allow the public to track stimulus funds down to the last dollar, and follow information on loan and grant recipients. That information is not currently offered on the federal transparency site USASpending.gov, which focuses on contract data.
"Other sites have done certain things, but no one's doing what we're doing. We're going to track every dollar from the prime recipient down to the subrecipient," Pound said, adding Recovery Board Chairman Earl Devaney has managed to procure enough technical personnel from other agencies to ensure the board is comfortable with its level of in-house technical expertise.
The Smartronix contract is the first award on GSA's Alliant vehicle, which was won in March one year after a protest derailed the original awards. Some open government advocates criticized GSA for limiting its solicitation to the 59 vendors on the Alliant contract. GSA received three bids and chose Smartronix.
"What we want is to make this process more open to people," said Clay Johnson, director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to increasing government transparency. "There's lots of good technology not offered by these 59 companies that does not reach the government, even though it's cheaper, better and faster."
Johnson said his organization's top priority for Recovery.gov is ensuring that the raw reporting data is available to the public in a machine-readable format. He said this is crucial because media and private sector Web sites will always have more readers and resources than those operated by the government.
"The real transparency is the bulk data and it's something they [Recovery Board] can do quickly," Johnson said.
The Recovery Board has already announced that the public will have access to the same machine-readable data that the board will use to update the site.
"We will post it almost as soon as we get it. We get it on [Oct.] 10 and the law allows 20 days, but we're not waiting 20 days," Pound said. "We're going to post it, it will be raw data with errors, but at some point along the line the recipients -- not the board -- will have to control the errors, hopefully, within the 20-day window."
Pound said Devaney hopes that by making the stimulus funds easy to track from top to bottom, he can enlist the American public to help him uncover any fraud and abuse.
"Earl came up with the phrase 'citizen inspector general' -- that there will be millions of citizen IGs who will help us uncover stuff," Pound said. "When the local mayor's brother-in-law gets a contract, how would an IG know? We look at the American people as partners in this."
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