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2005 Articles


Monday Morning, Business as Usual: Best Practices in Data Center Relocation
Fred Latala, Director, Data Center
Data Storage Connection  12.09.2005
A data center relocation affects every corner of the business. Successfully executed, it can not only validate disaster recovery plans, but also have a long-term positive impact upon day-to-day operating efficiencies and disciplines.

Data Center Consolidation: Risks and Rewards
Fred Latala, Director, Data Center Services
AFCOM’s The Communique newsletter 12.01.2005
If planned and executed carefully, a data center consolidation can provide enormous, long-term financial and strategic benefits. A successful consolidation can completely transform the efficiencies, performance, and manageability of an environment in a way that has long-lasting results for an organization’s day-to day IT operations and the business objectives they support.

Electronic Message Archiving and Risk Management
James E. Geis, Director Integrated Solutions Development
Risk Management 09.01.2005
By proactively taking controls of electronic messaging before a problem occurs, your business can reap cost benefits as well as the benefits of more secure information, and, thus, a more secure reputation.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Tiered Storage
James E. Geis, Director, Integrated Solutions Development
InfoStor 08.10.2005
Taking the right steps in the right order can make the difference between a tiered storage architecture that truly meets your business needs and a lot of unnecessary frustration. Although the precise order for some of these steps will vary from one organization to another, the following is a good working plan for most businesses. It adheres to the information management hierarchy of addressing policy decisions first, followed by management, operations, and technology.

Speaking of Business Continuity: A Cheat Sheet
Michael Croy, Director, Business Continuity Solutions
SearchCIO 07.16.2005
One of the challenges organizations often face as they initiate business continuity or disaster recovery planning is to reach consensus on precisely what they are trying to do. This requires identifying an closing any gap that may exist between the actual availability/recoverability of the organization’s information systems and the ability/recoverability expected by the business units and executive management.

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Ins and Outs of Software Compliance
Jason Sango, Director, IT Portfolio Management Solutions
Computerworld 07.15.2005
Most organizations fall out of compliance as a result of a combination of inadequate record keeping, ignorance of their license rights, and lack of policies to address the issue. However, as hard as it is to stay in compliance, it’s even more difficult facing the consequences that can result from noncompliance, ranging from steep costs to bad publicity.

Every Three Months or 3000 Miles
Steven Harris, Director, Data Center Planning and Design
Data Center Management 07.01.2005
Oil and lube, tire rotations, new wiper blades, washes and waxes … we all know the rules of thumb related to good automobile maintenance. But how many data center owners and operators know and follow the rules of thumb (read: best practices) related to the proper maintenance of our data center “engines”—i.e. the building-systems-infrastructure machinery?

The Value of Integrated Conferencing
Richard Zimmermann, Vice President, Network and Security Solutions
Internet Telephony 07.01.2005
Many enterprises that proactively deployed IP telephony (IPT) systems are finding that, several months after the implementation, they have not realized the anticipated expense reduction that fueled the ROI analysis that initially justified the deployment of an IPT system. Other companies are looking to aggressively reduce operating expenses to achieve target profitability levels in an increasingly competitive economy. The answer for both camps may lie in integrated conferencing.

Acronym Soup: BCP, DR, EBR… What Does It All Mean?
Michael Croy, Director, Business Continuity Solutions
James E. Geis, Director, Integrated Solutions Development
Disaster Recovery 07.01.2005
With all the terms and abbreviations being used today regarding risk management – BCP, DR, EBR, RPO, RTO, SLA, etc. – a conversation about data protection and risk mitigation sounds like a bowl of acronym soup And this stew of confusion is peppered with an urgent sense that such matters need to be addressed PDQ. In fact, major technology decisions are currently being made in an attempt to respond to pressing issues. But, at the same time, many still ask, “What does this all really mean? Why are people trying to sell me on a business continuity plan when we already have a solid disaster recovery solution in place?”

Guidelines for Effective E-mail Archiving

James E. Geis, Director Integrated Solutions Development
InfoStor 07.01.2005
No matter what is driving your organization’s need for electronic message management (e.g., compliance regulations, cost management, growth, risk management, or controlling information security) you will automatically reap the benefits of addressing all, plus a few more, by integrating e-mail archiving tools.

Security and Privacy Principles
Pamela Fredericks, Director, Security Advisory Services
Line56.com 06.21.2005
Enterprises know that they must keep information safe, correct, and accessible. They must also be practitioners of responsible information management by maintaining transparency about their practices and letting those involved know their responsibilities as well as their rights. But, does this mission describe the principles behind information security, data privacy or both? The correct answer is both. Security and privacy are based on common principles, and their objectives are accomplished in remarkably similar ways.

Compliance Hindsight: What Organizations Have Learned from Early Compliance Approaches
Pamela Fredericks, Director, Security Advisory Services
Evan Tegethoff, Former Practice Manager, Security Solutions
CIO.com 04.06.2005
In today’s regulatory environment, lessons learned today will have big payoffs down the line. Here are some tips for aligning business with security risk.

Recovery: The Only Reason for Backup
James E. Geis, Director Integrated Solutions Development
CIO.com 02.04.2005
While recovery may not be a new reason to backup information, it remains the only reason for backing up information. Unless information can be recovered with pinpoint accuracy within a certain time frame, the whole backup paradigm is useless and an organization could suffer significantly.

The Data Center Defense Dossier
Steven Harris, Director, Data Center Planning and Design
Next-Gen Data Center Forum 02.01.2005
When determining what data center practices best fit each organization’s current and future needs, location and physical security are two critical areas that must be considered in light of, and sometimes weighed against, overall business requirements.

How to Build a Tiered Storage Infrastructure
James E. Geis, Director, Integrated Solutions Development
InfoStor 01.01.2005
Building a tiered storage infrastructure is not an overwhelming exercise as long as you start with the end goal in mind: Keep important, transactional information on high-end storage and less-important, less frequently accessed information on lower-performing, cheaper storage for the long-term.

Inside ILM
James E. Geis, Director, Integrated Solutions Development
Storage 01.01.2005
Information lifecycle management (ILM) has become a familiar acronym in storage, but storage professionals aren’t buying into it with much enthusiasm. Despite the hype surrounding ILM, or maybe because of it, storage managers aren’t just in a quandary about their next move – in many cases, they simply don’t know where to start.

Being Prepared in the 21st Century: Current and Emerging Trends in Business Continuity
Michael Croy, Director, Business Continuity Solutions
Disaster Recovery Journal 01.01.2005
Since 2000, our world has seen dramatic changes that have caused an evolution in business continuity thinking. It used to be that recovery-minded organizations focused on preventing and avoiding disasters. Today, it seems inevitable that nearly everyone will be faced with unexpected “bumps” in the terrain from time to time. The focus is changing from avoidance of threat to “landing on your feet” in spite of it.