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Unifying Management of Physical and Electronic Records: The Records Management Imperative by EMC Corporation
a unified approach to enterprise records management, and describes how the EMC Documentum/OmniRIM solution works. The federated file plan allows users to specify retention, security, and metadata of both electronic and physical records from a common interface...
Tyler Memorial Hospital speeds delivery of patient records by Captaris, Inc.
locating the necessary patient records among millions of paper documents in a 200-square-foot storage room was difficult and time consuming for Tyler Memorial Hospital staff. Learn how they tackle their document challenges now. To effectively treat...
Sequence of Events Recording (SER), Part II by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
modern energy and power management systems enables you to identify, treat, and prevent power system issues. Topics covered include:

  • How millisecond resolution event sequence information is used to create a master log of events
  • How incident recovery
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Deploying F5 Networks BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by F5 Networks
such as team collaboration, data records management, document management and publishing, and dynamic score-carding. The growth rate is increasing, with adoption of Office SharePoint Server 2007 which provides increased functionality at somewhat higher...
Optimizing Processes in Medicaid Communications Management by Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software
improve services. Communications Management is an integral part of this important effort. Medicaid, the state-funded entitlement program designed to meet the medical care requirements of the financially needy, is essentially a safety net program.

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15 Minute Guide to Collaborative Case Management for the Public Sector by EMC Corporation
on an innovative approach to case management in public sector--collaborative case management (CCM). This guide focuses on an innovative approach to case management in public sector--collaborative case management (CCM). CCM enable governments at all...
Sequence of Events Recording (SER), Part I by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
Despite technological advances, no power system can operate 100% of the time indefinitely. This videocast shows you how sequence of events recording (SER) can determine what went wrong and save the critical load. Despite technological advances, no power system can operate 100% of the time indefinitely. Fortunately, event reconstruction...
Information Governance: CA/Microsoft Solutions for Compliance, Legal and Governance Responsibilities by CA
discovery as well as managing records and non-records, including email.

CA/Microsoft solutions support the corporate governance initiatives of today's organizations by delivering information governance that:

  • Reduces costs
  • Minimizes risk and
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Best Practices: The Ultimate Archiving Challenge by Storage Magazine
requires long-term retention management while avoiding vendor lock-in. A data management paradox exists today that, if unresolved, portends serious consequences long into the future. We have more information available to us than ever before. If you fast...
Storage Bin: It's Time to Change the Way You Think about Data by Storage Magazine
I doubt they're valid ones), but those records are still persistent; they are what they are...
Hawaii Pacific Health Consolidates 3 Datacenters into 1 by Hewlett-Packard Company
This white paper discusses a real world scenario of how Hawaii's largest healthcare provider consolidated data centers, business processes, and business offices. This white paper discusses a real world scenario of how one organization was able to design and implement an enterprise-wide hospital information system that...
Database Archiving to the Rescue by IBM
This document discusses how database archiving can be a solution to information privacy laws, record-retention regulations and data growth challenges. The combination of more information privacy laws, record-retention regulations and data growth poses challenges to both database and storage groups. Buying more disk...
Securing Data Stored on Tape with Encryption: How to Choose the Right Encryption Key Management Solution by Quantum Corporation
breach.

The right encryption key management solution can help minimize the impact of encryption processes on IT operations. The encryption key management capabilities built into popular backup applications provide a cost-effective approach for...
GPS Receiver Testing by National Instruments
Today, the power of software enables you to create GPS waveforms that accurately emulate the real word signal. In addition, advances in instrument bus technology enable record and playback of live GPS signals with PXI instrumentation. From the airplane pilot operating guiding a Boeing 747, to the everyday consumer using a GPS...
e-Book: Chapter 4 - ESI Datamap: Managing Litigation Risk by Symantec Corporation
This whitepaper explains how an ESI data map serves as a unifying document that ties together information about record locations, litigation hold instructions and retention. Businesses that create an ESI data map their risk of e-discovery noncompliance. The Digital Age has brought with it new challenges in the courtroom. Changes to...
ESG LAB VALIDATION REPORT Exanet ExaStore Clustered NAS Performance by Exanet
of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS. Typically, customers have implemented storage area networks (SAN) to meet the performance and high availability requirements of their mission critical applications. Recent technology...
Best Practices for Successfully Deploying and Managing Data Encryption on Laptops by Fiberlink Communications
44; many organizations lack the management tools to ensure that the encryption solution is in fact functioning properly.

The lack of management tools is important not only from the point of view of maintaining good security, but also because organizations...
System i (IBM iSeries) Management Best Practices -- an Executive Overview by Vision Solutions
further as logically deleted records continue to occupy physical space, and obsolete objects remain on disk drives well beyond their usefulness. System i provides a wealth of data to help analyze performance and storage usage. This information can be...
Cisco Storage Media Encryption: Meeting the Security Challenge by Cisco Systems, Inc.
with comprehensive built-in key-management features. Unfortunately, storage and network virtualization adoption has also increased the risk of exposing data via theft of disk drives, loss of backup tapes, and security breaches from inside the firewalls. This...
The Key to IT Business Alignment Is In Operations: Best Practice Series by CA
tool that requires effective management to control quality and costs. As in any type of industrial-strength activity, the predictability of results is paramount. This cannot be achieved without the ability to measure the quality of the output, not just...
ESI Risk Management Part I Best Practices for IT by Google
of litigation. Identify business records on the media, move it to an archive and apply the appropriate retention periods. When you do this, be sure to include any data subject to litigation holds. Doing so will allow you to make a better case to your legal...
ESG: EMC EmailXtender Centralized Message Control and Intelligent E-mail Archiving by EMC Corporation
family of products for e-mail management capabilities to improve the operational efficiency of their messaging environments, reduce the cost and risk of legal discovery and automate e-mail retention and disposal policies to meet regulatory and...
Information Solutions Provider Upgrades to Cisco and IBM 4Gbps FICON Switching and Storage Infrastructure in Record Time by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Thomson Transaction Services products provide value-added information with software tools and applications that help its customers make better decisions, faster. Thomson Transaction Services products provide value-added information with software tools and applications that help its customers make better decisions...
Growing Revenue with Frontline Data Warehouses by Aster Data Systems
The frontline data warehouse is the newest innovation in analytics and data warehousing for organizations building competitive advantage through analytics. The frontline data warehouse is the newest innovation in analytics and data warehousing for organizations building competitive advantage through analytics. The...
Email Archiving Implementation: Five Costly Mistakes to Avoid by Mimosa Systems
to search and retrieve email records while at the same time improving service to end users. Early adopters of email archiving, most notably from the financial services industry, were forced by regulatory pressure to adopt email archive solutions...
Achieving Rapid Data Recovery for Credit Union Core Processing Applications by Vision Solutions
45; inadvertently deleted files or records (operator error), viruses or hackers that can cause data corruption or deletion, and natural disasters that may put much more than just your data at risk.

EchoStream for AIX is a proven solution to the data recovery...
Data Security Solutions by Websense, Inc.
today. Whether it is customer records or intellectual property, information is the lifeblood of today's enterprise. Today's CIOs invest in technologies to make this data available on demand to employees, customers, and partners. However, broken business...
Design Reuse: The Key to Building Better Products Faster by PTC Small/Med Product Development
Learn how design reuse can save up to 75% of modeling time, improve product quality and time-to-market and reduce the risk of fundamental errors in this feature article. Design reuse has come a long way from the days of searching for part numbers and recording data in paper notebooks. Today's methods are far easier and much more...
6 Best Practices for Preventing Enterprise Data Loss by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
requirements. Nearly 220 million records have been breached since January 2005, according to Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a non-profit consumer information and advocacy organization. Protecting your company from enterprise data loss is a strategic...
Alcatel-Lucent Next Generation Communications Center by Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent has developed the industry's most comprehensive and flexible approach to meet your individual needs for transforming network, services and business, and to ensure your success. Alcatel-Lucent has developed the industry's most comprehensive and flexible approach to meet your individual needs for transforming...
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tools to protect only key applications such as Oracle databases or Microsoft Exchange records, and then protect more routine data with more traditional backups. Less data means faster snapshots and quicker recoveries.

Snapshots can establish recovery points in just a fraction of the time needed for a traditional backup and can significantly reduce... More...

How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
tools to locate bottlenecks

Experts point to a growing number of backup and data protection management tools that can analyze backup traffic and highlight potential problem areas. For example, you might identify tape as your data bottleneck and spend significant capital dollars for upgrades and other changes -- only to discover that the problem was actually in... More...

Data deduplication
of mid-market firms up to enterprise standards in the areas of systems, network and storage management, with a focus on data protection and business continuity planning. Marks is the author of three books and more than 200 articles on network and storage topics since 1987. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Best practices for data deduplication... More...
FAQ's
How can you ease encryption key management issues?
Ideally, you don't want to have to manage your keys. So when we talk about key management, you want this to be as automated as possible. You are counting on an application to do this for you and you don't want to have to copy it anywhere.

For example, a backup product like Tivoli Storage Manager is fully integrated with IBM's ... More...

What types of innovations are being introduced in this space?
tools and of the 25% implementing new tools, we're seeing that people want management tools similar to storage system management tools integrated in the server virtualization management platform.

Take something like VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB). VCB is a kind of framework for the backup process that... More...

Are there any major drawbacks to using tape encryption?
the most consideration and you need to have the best possible key management.

Also, if you plan on encrypting at the client level, that may cause some issues if you have implemented deduplicaiton within your environment. Deduplication technology needs to recognize identical data blocks or segments in... More...