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.

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.

Kubisys Thin Capture Helps One Company Stay in Compliance with PCI DSS Standards while Mitigating Risk

October 25, 2010

The situation confronting a VMware and Windows architect that I recently spoke with is probably one to which many system administrators can relate. On one hand, he had a requirement to make patches and updates to his company’s systems to keep them in compliance with PCI DSS regulations. On the other, making such changes could result in system downtime and disrupt his company’s operations (i.e. – stop its flow of income.) To resolve it, he turned to a new technology called the Thin Capture appliance from Kubisys.

Achieving Data Reduction with Data Loss is not the Paradox That It Appears to Be

May 21, 2010

When it comes to implementing any form of data reduction (compression or deduplication) on primary storage, many companies are still reticent to do so. So it was with some interest that I spoke to Mike Power, the CEO of Neuxpower, whose company is having success in not just delivering data reduction of files on primary storage but doing so leveraging lossy technology.

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.

The Coming New World of Healthcare Data Management Demands Healthcare Savvy Data Management Providers

June 8, 2009

Obama’s administration allocated $17B of the recent (Feb 09) stimulus spending package to healthcare, for the purpose of building better healthcare infrastructure. The goal of the new infrastructure is to move patient records online and enable a ubiquitous Electronic Health Record (EHR) to be shared universally among hospital systems. Obama himself promised a total of $50B in spending for this purpose during his campaign. Some experts believe that even more is to come. But, now that some of the money is allocated, how are healthcare institutions getting access to it and what are they doing with it?

Trading in Tape Cartridges may save Money but First Weigh Security and Liability Risks

November 26, 2008

Disposing aging, depreciated or unneeded tape cartridges is an age old problem that companies resolve in one of three ways: they destroy them; they store them; or, they trade them in for hard cash or credits from resellers. This last option generates more than passing interest from companies since it offers them the opportunity to generate some revenue (or at least offset the cost of new tape cartridges). However the liabilities associated with the data on these recycled tape cartridges landing up in the wrong hands may outweigh whatever cost savings companies hope to achieve.

Redact-It Brings Secure Black Outs to Electronically Stored Documents

October 30, 2008

Before storing documents electronically gained acceptance in the enterprise, retrieving documents meant parsing file cabinets and retrieving paper forms. And when it came time to share that information with the public without revealing classified information, it usually meant copying the original document and then pulling out a black marker that was used to cross out sensitive information on the copy, followed by more copying until the underlying text could no longer be seen. So while in the last decade most companies have scrapped file cabinets in favor of document images, more companies keep the black marker handy than they would probably like to admit.

Think AES is Unbreakable? RSA Security’s Shamir Debunks that Notion

October 16, 2008

The 2008 Crypto Conference provided a lot to talk about this year. If you didn’t know a Crypto Conference existed, you aren’t alone, but it is where the best and brightest mathematicians gather to discuss cryptographic and cryptoanalytic research. However at this conference Adi Shamir (the “S” in RSA Security that stands for Rivest, Shamir and Adleman and that is now owned by EMC) gave a presentation for a new attack on encryption systems called the “cube attack”. The ramifications of this attack sent a collective shockwave across the data security sector. Since encryption is revered as our best alternative and last safe harbor from data exposure, any weakness shown by encryption algorithms can have a dramatic ripple effect in data security.

Category: Governance Risk and Compliance

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

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

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

Kubisys Thin Capture Helps One Company Stay in Compliance with PCI DSS Standards while Mitigating Risk

Achieving Data Reduction with Data Loss is not the Paradox That It Appears to Be

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

The Coming New World of Healthcare Data Management Demands Healthcare Savvy Data Management Providers

Trading in Tape Cartridges may save Money but First Weigh Security and Liability Risks

Redact-It Brings Secure Black Outs to Electronically Stored Documents

Think AES is Unbreakable? RSA Security’s Shamir Debunks that Notion

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