Data Recovery Specialist Establishes Business in Watertown Square

With more than 23 years experience in the technical industry, the founder of a new data recovery company in Watertown Square is ready to delve into the digital retrieval arena for new customers. 

Nick Damirjian, president and founder of Ztech Data Recovery, said he chose his new Watertown location for its exposure and proximity to Boston.

“You have visibility in this location, from Newton from Boston…and it is close to Harvard Square and Boston,” said Damirjian.

Damirjian found the 900-square-foot space, formerly a pizza shop, at 9 Main St. when a friend who is also a local business owner recommended the area to him. The business sits in a prime location, facing the intersection of routes 20 and 16, and has parking spaces in back.

No longer a pizza parlor, the space now has an intimate reception area with two computer screens along a granite counter in the bright room. Only a door to the left gives the clue that a business operates beyond the walled space.

Before starting his own venture, Damirjian was one of the founders of TechFusion, a family business that began with computer repair and grew to a data recovery leader.

An ambitious and bold entrepreneur, Damirjian is concentrating Ztech on data recovery and computer forensics employing a business model of low cost and high quantity while adhering to maximum service standards to an array of clients, from end users, small business and personal computer owners.

“When technology changes you have to change everything if you want to stay competitive,” said Damirjian.

On Jan. 4 he officially opened his specialized company that concentrates on hardware recovery and forensics.

“There is a huge pie,” he said of the potential for a small business to dominate the data recovery and forensics market.

Success in computer forensics depends on having the utmost secrecy and security, and Damirjian said he handles extremely private data that relates to personal affairs, as well as data related to legal battles or highly sensitive government material. For that reason Damirjian and his experts keep the technicality of the business behind the closed secure door in the back.

Damirjian explained that this area of IT also requires knowledge on legal system.

“We have experience and that is what it comes down to,” he said.

Damirjian spoke of the computer owner that has been trained to believe that any retrieval of data is a miracle, while in actuality, recovery of more than 70 percent or higher is possible, he said.

As end users, businesses and the average computer user have a local computer place where they try to recover data. Or people try to do their own recovery. However, more people that handle the drive, the more comprised and complicated the data becomes, making recovery expensive.

Damirjian advises customers to bring the computer to a trusted data recovery expert instead of a computer shop, as it will save money and data in the end.

“I can be more helpful to the business community to do faster recovery at a lower cost," he said. "And overall the future looks good.”