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 records. Like any other record, you want to be able...
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 media is 30 years. To my surprise, I found out that...
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 discussions. Rather, XAM early adopters and end...