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Structured Records Management - Taking control of the structured data

In my last post I spoke about how the transfer of structured data from the source system into the records management system works. Now that we have covered this step, lets look at some of the special features that you want to manage structured data as...

Published 05-27-2009 3:16 PM by uraas

Filed under: E-Discovery, Database Archiving, Document and Records Management, Compliance Archiving, Data Classification

Structured Records Management - Transferring the records

Once you have defined what the records that you extract from your structured business application look like and how they are classified in the target records management system, you are ready to start transferring them. There are different things to consider...

Published 05-12-2009 8:17 AM by uraas

Filed under: Database Archiving, Document and Records Management, Data Classification

Structured Records Management - from data to record

In my last post I started on the subject of Structured Records Management, an area of records management that is re-gaining a lot of relevance because ALL electronically stored information is discoverable in e-Discovery and FOIA, not just unstructured...

Published 04-16-2009 8:39 AM by uraas

Filed under: E-Discovery, Database Archiving, Document and Records Management, Data Classification

How long do you keep your backup tapes?

By Patrick Eitenbichler Over the past week I talked to a number of customers and industry analysts to better understand whether backup tapes are kept for just a couple of months or for many years. After all, the specs show that the lifespan of e.g. LTO...

Published 01-30-2009 9:59 PM by pateiten

Filed under: Data Protection, E-Discovery, Alternative Thinking about Information Management, Document and Records Management, Compliance Archiving, Data Classification

Don't underestimate the power of the "metadata only" record

Many organizations are starting to implement electronic records management in conjunction with ETL (extract, transform, load) technologies in an effort to apply centralized control over unstructured, semi structured and structured data. Depending on the...

Published 01-19-2009 10:27 AM by uraas

Filed under: E-Discovery, Document and Records Management, Data Classification

HAPPY NEW YEAR! - What is your resolution?

And so we start another year of blogging, emailing, instant messaging, powerpointing, and whatever other means we have to contribute to the information explosion. During the holiday break we had time to reflect on our life and most of us have come up...

Published 01-05-2009 8:12 AM by uraas

Filed under: Alternative Thinking about Information Management, Document Workflow Transformation, Document and Records Management, Data Classification

Distinguish between Classifications and Folders

A records management file plan typically consists of three item types: 1. Classifications 2. Folders 3. Documents For people who are used to a filing structure of two types only, i.e. Windows Explorer which provides Folders and Documents, the three type...

Published 12-15-2008 3:12 PM by uraas

Filed under: Document and Records Management, Data Classification

XAM - Why do we need yet another storage standard??

By David Martin I just returned from Storage Networking Word (SNW) in Dallas last week where there was a lot of discussion and excitement about the Extensible Access Method (XAM) specification. These were not the typical ‘inside the box’ vendor centric...

Published 10-27-2008 4:07 AM by pateiten

Filed under: E-Discovery, Compliance Archiving, Data Classification

Information Explosion and Data Classification – Overview

By Jeff Bettencourt We are all starting to realize that information is and has been growing at an exponential rate throughout the world and directly in our organizations and enterprises. I read a recent statistic the other day that claimed that “It is...

Published 10-13-2008 1:50 PM by pateiten

Filed under: Data Classification

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