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By Melissa Osborne It’s amazing how quickly time flies when you’re in the middle of organizational change. When I wrote my last blog I was going to write about deploying DRMS software, and then time got away. And that got me thinking…how did it get away? Was it the usual, a lot of work and deadlines...
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Recently I have been providing quite a lot of advice to customers who want to embed TRIM tightly within their enterprise information topology and automate their information flow as much as possible. I think it would help many of you to understand what tools are available to create a truly unified information...
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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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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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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 with ambitious resolutions for 2009, mine are fairly...
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"It's because of the credit crunch!" is a phrase that I hear almost every day now. It seems to be the reason to any introduction of business change or deviation from previously laid out plans and strategies. I hear it when talking to people in Government as well as private industry. Certainly...
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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 just list the different information alongside each...
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By Rhys Jones To celebrate Halloween and the nightmare season we are offering a US $1,000 shopping spree at the HP online store to the person that tells us the best story of an information disaster. We are interested in hearing about disasters that impacted – or could have impacted – your backup and...
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Putting the "collection" step at the beginning of the e-discovery reference model can save time and cost. I recently spoke to a customer who wanted to collect files from disparate drives to a central repository after a legal hold has been issued. Their problem was that the standard Windows...
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Whenever I read about records management and e-discovery, it is all about making sure that the information which is subject to e-discovery is properly managed. However, the business of e-discovery itself is probably one of the most records intensive processes and warrants the implementation of a system...
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Over the last 200 years we moved from the agricultural age to the industrial age, and then on to the information age. Many of us now believe we are on the cusp of a new age - the Collaboration Age. Driven by the need for global operations but local, personalized products; driven by the need to vastly...