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Aust-STOR eNewsletter October 2007

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e01 Quote of the Month

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"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing what they could and should do for themselves."

-- Abraham Lincoln

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e01 Not So Funny Business

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All lawyers

A man walks into his favourite bar after spending several hours with his attorney. He declares in aloud voice "all lawyers are idiots !!!!" and from the far end of the bar a man speaks up "hey, I take offense to that comment".

Taken back by the response, the first man asks " are you an attorney ?? " The second man on the far end of the bar answers "no, I'm an idiot".

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Vendor Watch

Moonwalk Inc
'Manage your data from the inside'

Moonwalk is a single technology for the implementation of data management policy that directly reflects the specific regulatory requirements pertaining to your organization.

Moonwalk allows you to manage data by project, making complex datasets easier to express in simple business policies, thus allowing for easier archiving, faster retrieval, and most importantly, the ability to readily monitor and track locations of files and projects.

Moonwalk is a sociable, non-disruptive technology with no introduced points of failure, employing distributed execution of migration tasks thus ensuring minimal network congestion and computing resource consumption.

Plasmon Business Archive Management

Business Archive Management Best Practices in Archiving Every company takes a slightly different approach to implementing a long-term archiving infrastructure. Although there is a common set of practices that best-of-breed organizations tend to follow, these processes are not widely known, and are elusive in nature.

Plasmon has defined a set of best practices, referred to as Business Archive Management, which will help you develop and improve your archiving processes. Business Archive Management is focused on safeguarding your critical information assets, supporting efficient and effective corporate governance, and helping you create business value. There are five stages of Business Archive Management, and you will realize significant benefits as you progress through these stages. The white paper describes each stage and the capabilities required to implement Business Archive Management successfully.

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Backing Up Clogs Enterprise Systems

Many IT executives claim that the volume of data they have to back up is so overwhelming that it disrupts business operations, according to a recent survey

More than half (59 percent) of IT executives said that the volume of data they are forced to backup is disrupting business operations or will do so eventually, according to a survey of 472 IT executives in the U.K. and North America. And the problem is not going away, with 93 percent saying that their routine backup volumes are continuing to increase.

The problem is consuming IT resources for long periods with 37 percent admitting that daily backups of primary data now take them more than nine hours, while 19 percent said it took them more than 12 hours.

More than two-thirds (84 percent) of those polled felt they could benefit by reducing the volume of data they routinely back up. Among the chief advantages highlighted were:

* Less IT time devoted to backup and other business continuity processes (69 percent)
* A reduction in the impact of backup and replication on network utilization and capacity (60 percent)
* A reduction in disk resources devoted to data snapshotting, replication, and mirroring (58 percent)
* Reduced disruption to the live application environment (45 percent)

 

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BridgeHead Software
www.bridgeheadsoftware.com

 

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A Tiered Storage Management For E-Mail — Just In Time Information Management

Jim WheelerClearly e-mail is the best communication tool invented for both business and personal messaging, yet the volume of junk-mail we have to deal with and the ability to catalog and manage the number of e-mail we get on a daily basis, makes it a challenge to stay productive when searching our inbox.

The leading e-mail companies continue to provide the market with enhanced functionality making it easier to generate, send and receive e-mail. Thus creating the impact of increased usage of the e-mail system, which has lead to the real problem of storage and management of saved messages. This is not a new problem. It has been with us for as long as there has been e-mail, it’s just that the problem is growing at a faster pace then companies can manage. David Ferris of Ferris Research, a highly respected messaging industry analyst, says that average users currently receive about 80 messages per day. According to Steven L. Rohall from IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, workers spend, on average, 49 minutes every day, managing e-mail, and 25% of workers spend more than one hour per day.


 

QStar

www.qstar.com


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Gambling on Your Archive - Case Study - South Point Casino Hits the Jackpot with Plasmon


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> Organization: South Point Hotel and Casino

> Industry: Gaming

> Integrator: New Wave Automation

> Application: Enterprise Content Management

> Solution: Plasmon Archival Storage

> Solution including:

- Plasmon UDO Archive Appliance
- UDO Drives
- UDO WORM Media

> Benefits:

- Compliant retention of critical data
- Ongoing, rapid access to information
- High-reliability, high-capacity
- Low total cost of ownership
- Enhanced security

 

Gmble on your archive

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