Track Record

In our world, the world of handling corporate critical legacy data, “mileage matters”. There simply is no substitute for experience and expertise. For over 20 years, the TDS Team has consistently set the industry standard by which others are measured by successfully delivering the largest, most complex, and technically challenging legacy backup tape projects around the world.

That track record and reputation is why some of the global leaders in securities and banking, healthcare, information and records management, consulting, as well as data repository software rely on Trusted Data Solutions for their most important and sensitive backup tape challenges.

The TDS team takes pride in their technical capabilities. They have proven many times over their ability to tackle the most challenging technical projects. But more importantly the TDS team has always been committed to excellence in project management and client communication. Technical projects can pose challenges and honest, clear communication between our project team and client/partners is paramount for success.

TDS operates by core set of principles when working with clients:

  • SOLUTIONS NOT SALES: At TDS, we listen carefully to our clients to conceptually understand their issues consulting with them to offer defensible, reliable, and cost effective solutions.
  • CUSTOMER FOCUS: Managers are committed to a standard of excellence second to none in our industry. They are knowledgeable, consultative, and responsive. This is true of the manner in which they oversee a project internally to ensure its successful delivery and just as importantly, they way they interact with clients.
  • ACCOUNTABILITY: At TDS we know that our clients expect nothing less than “on time”, “on budget” and “right the first time”. We take our commitments as seriously as our clients do.
  • INNOVATION: TDS is committed to refining its processes and procedures anticipating that passing along those efficiencies to our clients will build stronger relationships.
  • INTEGRITY: Above all else we keep our promises and we keep our word. We believe the key to long-term success is all about TRUST.

Past Performance

For over two decades the TDS Team has specialized exclusively in the gathering, extraction, conversion and exchange of data from all systems, media types, file structures and formats. We've completed nearly 50,000 successful data restoration and conversion projects with hundreds of satisfied customers world-wide.

With an unparalleled depth of commercial, programming and multidisciplinary engineering expertise, we are the recognized industry leaders in tape related eDiscovery and compliance initiatives.

Litigation Events

  • Legacy Data Restoration and Conversion: Non-native restoration and conversion of System 36 reports from hundreds of legacy tapes to a Windows friendly review platform during at the start of a high profile Ponzi Scheme investigation.
  • Audio Discovery: Non-native culling to facilitate selective restoration of proprietary voicelogging audio from 54,000 hours of trader conversations, conversion to .WAV, linking to metadata and ingestion into a phonetic search platform.
  • Congressional investigation for United States Government Agency: Emergency restoration of 8,000 DLT & LTO email backup tapes in search of targeted custodians. Project completed in 83 days.


Legacy Email Backfile Migration

  • Email Archive Backfile Conversion: International Investment Bank - The restoration of 13,000 DLT tapes, de-duplication of Notes email and delivery back to the client in a client specific load format.
  • Email Achive to Email Archive Conversion: Conversion of 25TB of Legato EmailXtender data into CA-Message Manager load format.
  • Email backfile conversion: 12,000 backup tapes (DLT, 9840, LTO2) from Legato, Backup Exec and Commvault containing Exchange email. Nearly 16,000 EDBS processed with over 18.6 Billion raw emails extracted and de-duplicated to 281 million unique messages.