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Welcome to Wikibon's Information Management (IM) Portal. The IM Portal is a resource for IT professionals interested in leveraging information to increase organizational value, while at the same time managing information risk. We welcome you to join Wikibon, browse the portal and participate. You can write a Wikitip, Ask a Question or attend a Peer Incite Research Meeting.

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1. Peter Burris summarizes how Email archiving is moving from the server room to the court room to the board room (5:47)

   

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2. The Wikibon community's vision of the development of Active Archives. (4:41)

   

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Wikitip Beware of scope creep with data classification efforts Executives responsible for storage must keep data classification schema simple and limited to data that is system generated (e.g. date of creation and last use). While necessary, expanding the scope of classification efforts should not proceed until data classification schema are defined and automated methods of generation are in place. Relying on any manual entry of classification information will doom data classification projects to failure. View Another Wikitip Browse all Information Management Wikitips
Featured Case Study Retail Giant Tackles Email Archive CS5 is retail organization with over 250,000 employees. The Exchange email system has about 75,000 seats and about 500,000 messages every day. In retail, margins are thin and CS5's strategy is to focus the Email archive only on the most important senior managers while aggressively deleting emails of other employees after a short period of time. read more...	Information Management Professional Alerts Browse all IM Professional Alerts
Featured How-to Note	Implementing an Email Archive Ninety percent of business communication is done by email, instant messaging (IM) and voicemail, all of which are electronically stored. The main body of evidence that put Arthur Anderson out of business in 2002, after 89 years, came from email. Citigroup paid $400 million in fines after Elliot Spitzer subpoenaed emails written by stock analyst Jack Grubman. read more...

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Financial giant goes green

The corporate IT group of a very large, worldwide financial organization with 100,000 employees, has initiated an ongoing “greening” process. This is focused largely on reducing energy use both to decrease the corporation's carbon footprint while creating a net savings in operational costs over the lifetime of new, more energy-efficient equipment, including new storage systems.

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Planning a Green Storage Initiative

Fluctuating energy prices have heightened electricity and energy consumption as a major issue within the technology community. IT is a significant consumer of energy and IT energy costs have been rising disproportionately because of continued investment in denser IT equipment. Estimates from the EPA and others indicate that IT will account for 3% of energy consumption by 2012.

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