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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...
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By Noel Rath AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) has produced an excellent report from their survey on "Email Management - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (© AIIM 2009, www.aiim.org ) -- available at www.aiim.org/emailmanagement2009 . Here are some of the key findings....
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An EMC customer has spoken about the new SourceOne suite, saying: EMC’s solution is not the cheapest. They wonder if they’ve over-bought. They’d like to see EMC add support for end-user access to the archive through mailboxes. HP customers speak louder : Here’s what HP IAP customers are saying about...
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By Patrick Eitenbichler On April 7th, the Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal published a great article written by Brandon Cook, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Clearwell Systems. Brandon describes how the increasing number of business transactions across borders leads to more litigation, government...
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The EMC announcement of the SourceOne suite includes new consulting services to help customers develop information policies which align with business goals and regulatory requirements. HP already provides customers with regulatory compliance services, such as compliance and e-discovery workshops, information...
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On April 2, 2009 EMC finally announced the long-awaited replacement of EmailXtender. No surprise. Actually, it looks like they tried to announce it on April 1 and then pulled all the links—perhaps it was feared it would be seen as an April Fool’s joke. What isn’t a joke is that this product, called SourceOne...
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by Dean Gonsowski, Clearwell Systems, Inc. There’s a lot of excitement (and corresponding uncertainty) about the recent passing of Federal Rule of Evidence 502 (FRE 502), which was signed into law on Sept 19th. The main reason that the legal community is excited about FRE 502 is because of the potential...
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By Ronald Brown The next important topic about retention management pertains to “Litigation Hold” or “Legal Hold”, which is an important part of e-Discovery. This refers to preserving documents or emails during the course of an legal proceedings. Usually, this requires documents to be retained past their...
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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...
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Today, 85 percent of business communications occur through email, as the average email user sends and receives 76 messages per day. This tidal wave of email is creating enormous challenges for almost everyone touched by Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino messaging environments. If you’re a CIO, CSO,...
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By Steve Fink We have added five new Information Heroes to our Information Management Digital Hub. Click here to check out the new members of the Information Hero community. You’ll find: Marty Loeber who oversees e-Discovery for Valero's legal department, discussing how the USA’s largest oil refiner...
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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...
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By André Franklin In part 2 of this topic, we raised the question, “How DOES one choose carefully? We listed several basic principles to consider when choosing. If these principles are observed, you are unlikely to ever have the need to migrate to a different archiving platform. The principles we listed...
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By Ronald Brown So… in the last part we introduced some of the places where you can set retention in the IAP. The first place was the Domain.jcml configuration file, and the second was the PCC (Platform Control Center) . Let’s start with the Domain.jcml file. Amongst all the other settings in this file...
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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 is seen as very important even during a recession...