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...
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 documents. In this and some subsequent posts I would...
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...
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 maturity of the IT and the RM environment this...
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...