NEWS /

Dell Launches Digital Forensics Service for Police

07 Jul, 2009, 11:07 am IST | Reuters |

Dell Inc, the world's second-biggest maker of personal computers, launched a service on Tuesday designed to help law-enforcement agencies convict more criminals as digital evidence proliferates.
The company said its digital-forensics offering would help police reduce backlogs that can be as long as two years, as it would allow multiple analysts to work simultaneously on the same data, while preserving an audit trail of evidence-handling. "Law enforcement agencies across the world have told us about the enormous challenges they face in analysing huge volumes of data on seized digital devices," Josh Claman, head of Dell's European public-sector business, said in a statement. James Quarles, Dell's head of public-sector marketing in Europe, told Reuters customers remotely accessing criminal evidence in parallel from Dell datacentres could gain a crucial time advantage, for example when legally constrained as to how long they could hold terrorism suspects without evidence.

Dell made about $15 billion in sales to the public sector last year, including hospitals, government, education and defence - about a quarter of its total revenue. The company cited estimates by research firm IDC that the U.S. digital-forensics market would be worth $630 million this year, up from $252 million in 2004, while the international market would be worth $1.8 billion by 2011. Partners in Dell's offering include data-storage gear maker EMC Corp, chipmaker Intel Corp, business-software maker Oracle Corp, security-software maker Symantec Corp and privately held digital-forensics specialist AccessData. Dell will present the new service to Britain's Association of Chief Police Officers on Tuesday.

Tags: Dell , Police , forensics , criminals

RELATED STORIES

Bring about change with Dell

Bring about change with Dell

Dell in collaboration with The University of Texas at Austin’s RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service ...

Report: Amazon Kindle Fire runs on Android, sidelines Google apps

Alienware announces X51 mini-ITX gaming PC

Dell plots late-2012 consumer tablet launch

Dell XPS 17 Review

Pentagon picks Android over Apple for U.S military's use

Dell to discontinue sale of 7-inch Streak tablet in the U.S

 

Photos

Mugen Power Galaxy Note Battery Pack

Mugen Power Galaxy Note Battery Pack

30 Jan, 2012, 12:52 PM

3.2

Samsung Galaxy Tab 620

Samsung Galaxy Tab 620

25 Jan, 2012, 01:29 PM

3.1

LG Optimus Black P970

LG Optimus Black P970

24 Jan, 2012, 06:11 PM

3.9

MORE PHOTOS

Leaked Images, Availability, Pricing,
Specs, Pre-order

OPINIONS

Ivor Soans

How time flies. A few weeks ago the BlackBerry world was mad at RIM for a massive 3-day outage. Now,...

MORE OPINIONS

features

Apple concepts we'd love to see for real

Apple concepts we'd love to see for real

Apple has been developing patents all over the tech space for years now...

By Shayne Rana

Top smartphones under Rs.10,000

Top smartphones under Rs.10,000

Following our list of top smartphones under Rs.20,000 and Rs.15,000, we...

By Karan Shah

Top 5 cameras under Rs.10,000

Top 5 cameras under Rs.10,000

If one is in the market for a point and shot compact camera, they don’t...

By Aaron Almeida

MORE FEATURES

629 views

926 views

577 views

MORE WALLPAPERS

How To: Install ICS on your Galaxy S

How To: Install ICS on your Galaxy S

10 Feb, 2012, 05:23 AM

On video: MSI WindPad Enjoy 10

On video: MSI WindPad Enjoy 10

09 Feb, 2012, 04:50 AM

On Video: Mercury mTab Neo

On Video: Mercury mTab Neo

08 Feb, 2012, 10:18 AM

2.0

MORE VIDEOS

Close