November 2008 - Information Faster Blog -

Archiving Databases: Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater

By Mary Caplice When archiving data from relational databases for either compliance or performance reasons, it is standard practice to archive at the business transaction level of granularity rather than at the table, block or partition level. In most...

Published 11-29-2008 9:36 AM by kpomalley

Filed under: Performance Archiving, Compliance Archiving

Archiving for the Clouds!

by Janani Mahalingam What does Cloud Computing mean? What does it mean for archiving world? Cloud computing is the concept where you get IT resources by just turning a knob - just like you get hot water or cooking gas whenever you want by turning a knob...

Published 11-29-2008 9:26 AM by kpomalley

Filed under: Database Archiving, Performance Archiving

To VCB or not to VCB

By Billy Naples I have been asked to join several customer meetings recently by the StorageWorks Division of HP to discuss the backup and recovery of VMware virtual machines. The customers had one requirement of any vendor, No VCB. If you remember VCB...

Published 11-24-2008 3:33 PM by Jtisevich

Filed under: Data Protection

Enterprise Mashups for better business insight

I attended a webinar on Enterprise Mashups this morning. For any of you who are not familiar with this term, it is about using Web 2.0 technologies to combine information from a variety of sources into a single view for the end user. Mashups don't...

Published 11-24-2008 10:59 AM by uraas

Filed under: Alternative Thinking about Information Management, Document and Records Management

RSNA 2008: 5 questions healthcare IT should ask exhibitors

By Lisa Dali How can I guarantee that PACS images stored in a long-term storage infrastructure are secure? Can a single vendor’s solution be used to build an enterprise image and storage management environment? How does a PACS storage system help me improve...

Published 11-19-2008 4:31 PM by Lisa Dali

Filed under: Medical Archiving, PACS storage, HIPAA

What's in your closet?

If you are anything like me it is mostly filled with clothes you haven't worn for the last five years. You often think about the need to have a sort out but you don't get around to it. And then when you eventually resign yourself to it you can't...

Published 11-19-2008 3:43 PM by Suzanne Prince

Filed under: Document Workflow Transformation

My German experience

German is suddenly everywhere in my life. I just read Harald's blog entry where he praises the German engineering in our Data Protector product, I moved positions in HP and now report to a German based in Germany, rather than a German based in the...

Published 11-18-2008 4:51 PM by uraas

What do backup software and cars have in common?

By Harald Burose Last week we had our sales kick off in Las Vegas and in the central Information Management sessions we focused on E-Discovery and the challenges the industry is facing. Challenges like data collection for legal cases taking a considerable...

Published 11-17-2008 4:26 PM by Jtisevich

Filed under: Data Protection

Compliance – Importance of Green House Gas Regulations

By Reiner Lomb Compliance continues to rise in importance to the business and to IT. According to the 2008 compliance survey by TechTarget, more than two thirds of the respondents said, compliance is more important at their organization this year. And...

Published 11-17-2008 2:53 AM by pateiten

Filed under: Compliance Archiving

RSNA 2008: 4 tips to maximize time with storage software exhibitors

Tip #1: Determine how the vendor can help you create an enterprise image and storage management environment. This is an environment that allows you to virtualize connected devices and the storage underneath so your clinicians can collaborate better and...

Published 11-14-2008 10:22 PM by Lisa Dali

Filed under: Medical Archiving, PACS storage, HIPAA

Parallel Fetch: What is it, and how it might help your workflow...

By Shelby Dunlap The HP Medical Archive Solution (MAS) integrates with dozens of PACS systems, big and small. For those PACS systems that store their studies via the Common Internet File System (CIFS) and/or Network File System (NFS) standard, these studies...

Published 11-08-2008 10:10 PM by pateiten

Filed under: Medical Archiving, PACS storage

Inquiring Minds want to know about Database Archiving – Part II

By Kevin O’Malley As an add-on to my last blog here are additional questions that I’ve been asked about recently in regards to database archiving projects. Q6- This isn’t rocket science. Why do I need a software package for database archiving? A6- Spoken...

Published 11-08-2008 3:27 AM by kpomalley

Filed under: Performance Archiving, Compliance Archiving

Application Sunsetting - TRICK or TREAT?

By Janani Mahalingam Halloween has already come and gone but here’s another morsel for the goody bag, without the calories… Application sunsetting is the process of retiring an application but saving the data so that it remains accessible to meet long...

Published 11-08-2008 2:16 AM by kpomalley

Filed under: Compliance Archiving

The Scope of e-Discovery

By Adam Feher Many organizations still focus primarily on instituting business policies and procedures around email specifically. This is mainly due to the large number of highly publicized cases which have relied on information discovered within email...

Published 11-07-2008 5:39 PM by pateiten

Filed under: E-Discovery

Tell the truth about your IT projects

Apparently some people fib about the purpose of their IT projects. Earlier this week I attended a briefing by a company who runs web surveys on IT spending. The briefing covered a survey about IT spending on compliance. The gist of it was that compliance...

Published 11-06-2008 11:40 AM by uraas

Filed under: E-Discovery, Document Workflow Transformation, Compliance Archiving

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