Kroll Ontrack (http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/apple%2Drecovery%2Dservices/) — a provider of information management, data recovery, and legal technology products and services — has announced improvements to its data recovery capabilities for Mac systems, addressing the surge in usage of Apple systems, services, applications and devices, including the iPad, iPhone and iPod.

Through its Ontrack Data Recovery services, Kroll Ontrack’s proprietary Recovery Positioning SystemT feature adds a higher level of precision to the data recovery process, resulting in faster service and a higher quality data recovery, according to Todd Johnson, vice president of Ontrack Data Recovery operations, Kroll Ontrack.

Ontrack Data Recovery engineers report that requests for Mac-specific data recoveries have doubled over the last three years, growing 117% from 2006 to 2009. Kroll Ontrack is equipped with data recovery technology for MacMail and Microsoft Entourage e-mail, as well as data recovery capabilities for Apple Xsan 2 clustered file system for Mac OS X.