Big Data, Metadata, and Information Governance; CMIS Enables Scale, Tagging and Predictive Analytics

November 14, 2011

Consumerization of content consumption models exposes opportunities to incorporate business process metadata with Big Data. Consumerization includes proliferation of social networks, content syndication and mobile devices, such as Apple iPAD, Samsung Tablet, etc. Consumerization of content merging with Enterprise Business Big Data is a challenge best met by standardized content interfaces.

HDS Offers Up a Three Tiered Virtualization Vision

November 11, 2011

Back in the early 2000’s as the storage virtualization debate raged HDS took what was then a novel approach to storage virtualization: it decoupled its storage controllers from its back end disks and enabled them to virtualize storage from it and other providers. Fast forward to 2011 and HDS again has given the industry something new to chew on. It offered up a new, three tiered vision for virtualization that builds upon its existing storage controller virtualization approach but which it now expands to also virtualize the emerging content and information layers that enterprises are creating.

Information Governance: The Proactive Approach

November 8, 2011

You hear the words and phrases repeated in legal offices, data centers, break rooms, and boardrooms: liability, indemnity, retention, regulators, act of discovery, compliance. The discomforting sound of Information Governance contains echoes of cost, complexity, inconvenience, and potential penalties.

Liability Insurance Drives Information Management Plans, not eDiscovery or Monetary Sanctions

November 4, 2011

On average most mid-sized companies are not bothering with Information Management as a means to mitigate e-discovery costs. That is a conclusion reached by comparing Symantec’s 2011 Information Retention and eDiscovery Survey announced in October 2011 with the research completed by King and Spalding, LLP for the Duke Law Journal December 2010.

Don’t hit the button: Hoarders love deduplication and compression.

September 23, 2011

Over the years big data has crept into the everyday life of systems administrators. Attempts to solve the big data problem in both block and file storage emerged as data management software. While data management software struggled to get a footing, deduplication and compression took off stunting data management software’s growth.
Deduplication and compression technologies have well known capabilities in both the storage and information disciplines. However, they differ in a significant way. These technologies do not ease the burden of information management.

Focus of the Next Four 2010 DCIG Buyer’s Guides

June 11, 2010

Sometimes when you find a good thing you have to roll with it and that is exactly what DCIG plans to do with its new line of Buyer’s Guide products. Last month DCIG announced the availability of its first ever Buyer’s Guide of any kind for either storage or ESI products. Since then its reception among storage providers and end-users alike has so surpassed our expectations that DCIG has decided to expand the scope of these offerings. It is for that reason DCIG is today pleased to announce that it is beginning research and plans to bring to market by the end of 2010 four more DCIG Buyer’s Guides.

Quick SNW 2010 Recap – COPAN (aka SGI) Lives! While Recent Court Case Drives Flurry of Activity in eDiscovery

April 14, 2010

I am playing the role of road warrior this week by attending two conferences. The first two days of this week I was attending Storage Networking World (SNW) 2010 in Orlando, FL, and then today I hopped on a direct flight Las Vegas to catch one day of the Symantec Vision conference.

Message Tagging Offers Means to Scale Email Management in Enterprise Environments

April 3, 2009

A recent virtual eDiscovery roundtable that I participated in highlighted the difficulties that companies are having in getting their arms around the proliferation of electronically stored information (ESI) in their organization. This is especially true when one considers the growth of social media and how it can negatively impact them going forward. One attorney participating in the roundtable even went so far to say that, “We have lost control in regards to blogs, wikis and newer forms of social media.” Thankfully the news is a little bit better in regards to the management of older, more mature forms of social media such as email but challenges still remain.

Email Consolidation Neither Simple nor Straightforward

March 3, 2009

In the last week I had an extensive conversation with an investment individual about what the future holds for email archiving and management software. On one hand, he astutely and accurately observed that the market is already saturated with products and that consolidation should occur. But when one looks beyond the general classifications of “email archiving” or “email management”, one quickly detects that many of these products are designed to solve specific problems in a specific market segment. As a result, email consolidation is neither as simple nor as straightforward as one might imagine and that there is still plenty of room for growth and innovation in this space.

No Rewards for Proactively Detecting Illegal Activity Using eDiscovery Software; But is Presuming Guilt the Next Logical Step?

February 12, 2009

A recent DCIG blog entry called into question the value of Bear Stearns selection of Orchestria and its inability to detect the alleged illegal activities of two of its Asset Management portfolio managers. More specifically, it asked why Orchestria did not detect the illegal activities of these individuals and why Bear Stearns did not configure it to monitor for these activities in the first place. The blog posting prompted a comment and phone call from Alan Morley, one of the individuals formerly responsible for implementing and managing Orchestria at Bear Stearns and why monitoring, detecting and preventing this activity is not as easy as it sounds.

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Big Data, Metadata, and Information Governance; CMIS Enables Scale, Tagging and Predictive Analytics

HDS Offers Up a Three Tiered Virtualization Vision

Information Governance: The Proactive Approach

Liability Insurance Drives Information Management Plans, not eDiscovery or Monetary Sanctions

Don’t hit the button: Hoarders love deduplication and compression.

Focus of the Next Four 2010 DCIG Buyer’s Guides

Quick SNW 2010 Recap – COPAN (aka SGI) Lives! While Recent Court Case Drives Flurry of Activity in eDiscovery

Message Tagging Offers Means to Scale Email Management in Enterprise Environments

Email Consolidation Neither Simple nor Straightforward

No Rewards for Proactively Detecting Illegal Activity Using eDiscovery Software; But is Presuming Guilt the Next Logical Step?

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