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Welcome to my Blog, I hope you find something of interest or help amonst my ramblings... House rules are that I will review all comments prior to their posting, not because I want to stop people commenting but at a recent Blogging seminar I was reminded that all content posted to my blog I am legally responsible for.

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Monday
Jul262010

Still no Archive Strategy?

DateMonday, July 26, 2010 at 1:11PM

A report from the analysts ‘The Aberdeen Group’ found that 59% of the respondents still don’t have an e-discovery or archiving strategy in place. This implies that the majority of businesses today are not in a position to meet even the most basic IT corporate governance requirements. This in turn means that they are not able to access the value residing in their historic, fixed content data.

It is clear that many organisations continue to rely on their backup infrastructure to provide data archiving capabilities, but, as I have mentioned previously, a backup is no substitute for a considered archive strategy. Organisations that strive to implement the level of archiving required in their businesses tend to take incremental steps rather than implementing a complete solution overnight. By identifying where in the process an organisation has reached, you can determine the measures they need to take to move to the next stage. The result is a more smoothly implemented archive solution.



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Thursday
Jul152010

The difference between Backup and Archive

DateThursday, July 15, 2010 at 7:32PM

It still amazes me the number of people who don’t understand the differences between backup and archive. As a result one of the first things I find myself doing when talking to customers is to ensure their understanding of Archiving is the same as mine!

 

Backup is a way of getting data back to a previous point in time, recovering data in the event of a disaster. The main use for backup therefore is data restoration. Recovery.

 

Archiving is the long-term retention and management of historical data that is no longer changing i.e. fixed content. This data has to be retained though to satisfy such things as regulatory compliance, corporate governance, litigation, records management or data management directives. The main use of an archive is to enable the discovery of single file or groups of files. Discovery.

 

Typical backups fall short of meeting the requirements for permanence and longevity usually associated with archives. In addition building an archive in a backup environment does not measure up since legal discovery isn’t usually possible.

 

Archive data is fixed content; it does not need to be included in the daily backup process if it is archived to a secure media that provides longevity, disaster recovery and data accessibility to satisfy discovery requirements.



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Friday
Jul092010

Growth in Data

DateFriday, July 9, 2010 at 11:22PM

Data centres around the world are being swamped with digital content from an ever-growing number of sources.  While some organisations see this as a potential crisis, others view this situation as a unique opportunity to get their data in order. 

Some companies understand that to avoid sinking beneath the waves they can control their information using long-term archive strategies.  This approach not only stems the tide of data growth, but can deliver compelling business benefits.

To realise these benefits though within your own organisation you must develop an archive strategy that manages the life cycle of your data. This should begin by considering both the IT constraints and business priorities for all types of data within the organisation.

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