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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 André Franklin Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of convenient mailbox message stubs, Or accept the clean simplicity of stub-less archiving… … well… that is the question… Ok…enough Shakespeare. What are you talking about? When email archiving is performed to enable...
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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...
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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...
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By Ronald Brown Today, the HP Integrated Archive Platform (IAP) manages retention at the “archive level” – meaning the archive itself is not only responsible for executing the retention management functionality, but it is also the place where the retention settings are configured. This means the “archive...
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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...
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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 Mary Caplice When archiving data from relational databases for either compliance or performance reasons, it is standard practice to archive at the business transaction level of granularity rather than at the table, block or partition level. In most cases it’s very straightforward to model a transaction...
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by Janani Mahalingam What does Cloud Computing mean? What does it mean for archiving world? Cloud computing is the concept where you get IT resources by just turning a knob - just like you get hot water or cooking gas whenever you want by turning a knob. These resources are always available and you will...
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By Kevin O’Malley As an add-on to my last blog here are additional questions that I’ve been asked about recently in regards to database archiving projects. Q6- This isn’t rocket science. Why do I need a software package for database archiving? A6- Spoken like a DBA who’s got some extra time on their...
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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...
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By: Randy Serafini It's virtually impossible today to discuss business with out the subject of e-discovery becoming a hot topic. Particularly when one examines the current economic climate and how we got here, it will only be a matter of time before we see a new set of tighter, more rigorous, more...
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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...
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by Randy Serafini "Your mailbox is almost full" can become a thing of the past. Studies show that nearly 65% of all enterprises still enforce mailbox quotas. Resulting in significant productivity losses with users wasting enormous amounts of time managing their mailboxes just to stay operational...