Backup early and often.
February 22, 2011 Leave a comment
Today is an important day for Chicagoians, we are voting for a new mayor. So in the spirit of Chicago style voting I’d like to remind everyone to backup their data early and often.
Rise of the Digital Information Age
February 11, 2011 Leave a comment
In 2002, digital data storage surpassed non-digital for the first time. By 2007, 94 percent of all information on the planet was in digital form. These were among the conclusions of researchers at the University of Southern California who tried to quantify the amount of data in the world.
Source: Researchers at the University of Southern California took four years — 1986, 1993, 2000 and 2007 — and extrapolated numbers from roughly 1,100 sources of information.
Credit: Todd Lindeman and Brian Vastag/ The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2011/02/11/GR2011021100614.html
See the related article at the Washington Post:
Exabytes: Documenting the ‘digital age’ and huge growth in computing capacity
Seven questions every CIO should be able to answer about eDiscovery and legal holds.
January 21, 2011 1 Comment
Introduction
Electronic Discovery, eDiscovery, Legal Holds, Electronically Stored Information (ESI) and Data Preservation are just a few of an increasing family of terms that CIO’s and IT Managers are hearing more and more every day. Particularly since the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) came about at the end of 2006 have internal legal counsel and IT departments started a new dialogue as to what responsibilities, and capabilities an organization has in regards to preserving data required for legal discovery. Even more challenging are the tasks IT staff are being asked to perform in terms of actually doing the electronic preservation.
What we have seen in recent years is where the necessity of data preservation is driving organizations to create new processes and procedures as well as vendors to develop new technologies that allow companies to preserve data in systems that otherwise never had been designed to conduct legal holds. Considering the scores of systems that we find throughout a company, to discuss the risks and challenges of data preservation of each type of system would be far too much to encompass in just one article. However, I will cover the most common and important aspects of data preservation and electronic discovery that companies have to address with particular emphasis on backup systems. Backup systems, as you will see, pose some of the most significant challenges and risks, in both financial and legal spaces when it comes to managing legal holds. Effective solutions for managing legal holds is currently provided by only a couple vendors for this complex and all too often, over-looked high risk area.
Prediction of Top 15 Data Storage Trends of 2011
December 31, 2010 Leave a comment
Prediction of Top 15 Data Storage Trends of 2011 including ‘no new killer apps’.
I disagree, what do you think?
http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/miscellaneous/top-15-storage-trends
A shot over the bow of unsecured, poorly architected cloud storage services.
October 15, 2009 Leave a comment
Recently, a embarrassing data loss in the consumer market has resulted in T-Mobile, Microsoft and the Sidekick shedding doubts on companies abilities to protect your data.
- T-Mobile Takes the Hit for Sidekick Data Loss. – PCWorld
- Microsoft’s Danger Sidekick data loss casts dark on cloud computing – Apple Insider
- Microsoft Red-Faced After Massive Sidekick Data Loss – PCWorld
- Sidekick users who lost their data won’t be getting it back. T-Mobile and Microsoft say the data is gone. – Information Week
- T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger data loss is bad for the cloud – ars technica
