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Electronic content management organizational nuances

IT in general and storage administration in particular should recognize that they will be required to administer and ultimately integrate unstructured content archives broadly across the organization. Like other cross-functional, high technology-oriented but business-driven initiatives (e.g. disaster recovery), CIOs must ideally have direct reporting authority from or at least strong matrix influence over the policies, procedures and practices associated with e-mail and other unstructured content archives and should propose organizational structures that reflect these responsibilities. Records management is a vital part of this mosaic.

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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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