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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 CIO's should start with the IM roadmap For the past five years, kneejerk reactions to information risk have led to technology implementations that are built on fragile or non-existent IRM roadmaps. The result has been flawed technology implementations that don't adequately address fundamental risks. In order to reduce wasteful spend, lower organizational risk and develop systems that scale, CIO's must initiate the development of clear IRM strategies as the starting point. This effort will provide a credible means of guiding subsequent technology investments and improve overall business value 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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Virtualization Energizes Cal State University

John Charles is the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila is Director, Server & Network Operations. In late 2007 they were both looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67KVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA. PG&E had informed them that no more power could be delivered. They would be out of power in less than six months. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years.

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Storage Virtualization Design and Deployment

A main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center. The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more of the largest storage pools within a data center.

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