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 Mary Caplice I was reading an article today from Forrester (‘Q&A: The Economics Of Green IT’) about how companies can not only save money by going green, there may also be government incentives and utility company programs to help them. They may even incur penalties in some regions for not going...
By Mary Caplice Although we’re all experiencing the effects of a worldwide downturn in the economy, organizations are finding that there are certain things they can’t ignore and wait until the economy improves. They’re finding that they have no choice but to invest time and technology in reducing costs...
By André Franklin In part 3, we discussed seven principles. If the principles are observed, you are unlikely to ever have the need to migrate to a different archiving platform in the near future. The seven principles are: Thoroughly understand your email environment Set clear archiving goals that will...
by Mary Caplice Benjamin Franklin first said "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes" but we’ve come across recent evidence from an HP customer that one can be avoided, sort of (but it’s not death, sorry!). This customer has thousands of old, de-commissioned applications that...
by Ali Elkortobi Data needs to survive technological evolutions because data may still be needed many years after its creation and active usage. Structured data is particularly challenging since it must be stored in a format that survives: • Database evolutions and migrations • Application versions and...
By Linda Zhou The HP Integrated Archiving Platform (IAP) supports local and remote replication. There are two replication methods for copying data between two IAP systems: one-way replication and cross replication. These techniques are in addition to the disk-level mirroring built into IAP. To illustrate...
by Kevin O'Malley Recently, HP hosted a customer case study with Tektronix that detailed their global database archiving strategy. The following is an interview style blog with Lois Hughes of Tektronix on some of the key elements of their implementation. If you'd like to view the complete webinar...
By Mary Caplice E-Discovery and Records Management for ‘unstructured’ information (such as email, and electronic and physical documents, etc.) is a well-established practice for most organizations. There is now an emerging trend towards enabling structured information from databases to be available to...
Corporate data theft makes huge headlines like the TJ Maxx incident where 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen. In addition to debit and credit card numbers about a half a million customers had their personal information (SSN, address, phone etc.) stolen. This was a premeditated crime...