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Atola Adds RAID 6 Support To Its TaskForce Imagers

16th November 2023

Atola Technology introduces the long-awaited support for RAID 6 in a new firmware version 2023.10 for both its forensic hardware imagers: the portable TaskForce with 18 ports and the newest TaskForce 2 with 26 ports, including four M.2 NVMe ports,… Read more

Atola Technology Launches TaskForce 2, A New Generation Of High-Performance Forensic Imagers

11th July 202311th July 2023

Atola Technology releases TaskForce 2, a new version of its flagship forensic imager. The new device has 26 ports, including four M.2 NVMe ports, and can image 25+ drives simultaneously, including damaged media, reaching 25 TB/hour cumulative speed. With TaskForce… Read more

Questions and Answers about Atola Imagers from Digital Forensic Events in 2022

6th February 2023

In 2022, Atola held an unprecedented number of offline and online meetings with our customers. On the one hand, offline conferences finally returned firmly into our business lives. On the other, we created opportunities to meet DFIR practitioners to explain… Read more

Yulia Samoteykina, Director of Marketing, Atola Technology

22nd December 202222nd December 2022

FF: Yulia, please tell us about your background, how you got into digital forensics and your role at Atola. Yulia: I joined Atola in 2016, and it was the technology that first drew my attention. I was still fresh to… Read more

Atola TaskForce Gets APFS Support and Improved RAID Autoreassembly in Latest Update

28th November 2022

On November 21 Atola Technology released a firmware update for Atola TaskForce, a high-performance forensic imager capable of running 12+ parallel imaging sessions at 15 TB/hour cumulative speed. With the new firmware version 2022.10, TaskForce users can: Unlock and image… Read more

How Atola TaskForce’s New Logical Imaging Module Speeds Up Your Investigation

25th April 202225th April 2022

What do you need in logical imaging functionality? Here are some of the answers from Atola’s customers accumulated over the years: “We would want to be able to verify with the client the number of successful files recovered, preferably by… Read more

John Graham, Director of Sales and Business Development, Atola Technology

19th January 2022

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John, you will soon be celebrating your 10-year anniversary of working for Atola Technology. Tell us how the company has changed since you joined. Atola has grown incredibly since I started, from just a few people to now teams in… Read more

“How do I reassemble a RAID if I know nothing about it?” or the Story behind TaskForce’s RAID Module

6th January 202223rd December 2021

“I keep on telling my field techs to at least mark the order of the drives in a tower when they are pulling them out!” says our new acquaintance at one of the first post-pandemic offline events. These bunches of… Read more

Atola Releases TaskForce 2021.8 Firmware With XFS, RAID 10, Imaging Enhancements

9th September 20219th September 2021

Atola software development team has long been focused on supporting more filesystems for the different system modules as well as RAID types to enhance the work with arrays of drives with an unknown configuration. The 2021.8 release also includes additions… Read more

3 Parallel Imaging Sessions On Good Or Bad Drives With Atola Insight Forensic And DiskSense 2

31st August 2021

In July, Atola Technology released a new generation of hardware units for Atola Insight Forensic. The new unit is named DiskSense 2 and it comes with a range of improvements. Insight’s hardware enhancement DiskSense 2 is equipped with a server-grade… Read more

Atola Insight Forensic Gets New Hardware Unit And Supports 3 Parallel Imaging Sessions

6th July 20216th July 2021

On July 5, Atola Technology announced the release of a new hardware imager for Atola Insight Forensic. The new device supports simultaneous imaging of 3 drives with other concurrent forensic tasks such as hashing and wiping. The hardware unit under… Read more

Vitaliy Mokosiy, CTO, Atola

23rd November 2020

Vitaliy, it’s been a year since we last met to discuss the progress Atola was making developing its technology and TaskForce’s integration into Magnet AUTOMATE. And what a year that was! What has Atola accomplished since and how are you… Read more

Atola Introduces RAID Assembly, Autodetection And Imaging In TaskForce

3rd August 2020

2020.7 release of TaskForce brings a brand new capability to assemble drives and image files into RAID arrays, automatically detect their configuration and image the volumes in a forensically sound manner. “TaskForce is now officially the first hardware RAID imager… Read more

Atola Technology launches Atola Virtual Booth

25th May 202018th May 2020

On May 20, Atola Technology is launching Atola Virtual Booth, a space for meetings with existing and potential customers, partners and friends. “While physically distancing for the time being, we want to remain socially active and available for a conversation… Read more

How To Launch 18 Simultaneous Wiping Sessions And Reach 18TB/h Overall Speed With Atola TaskForce

12th May 202023rd July 2019

Thanks to its ability to perform 18 simultaneous imaging sessions, TaskForce is the most capable evidence acquisition in the forensics market. Atola’s team of engineers have equipped the device with a server-grade motherboard and CPU, thus allowing TaskForce to multitask… Read more