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WikitipWith email archiving don't be penny wise pound foolishExperience shows that most email managers and many CIOs are too concerned about the cost of email systems and cannot judge the risks to the business. A complete mindset shift is necessary by corporations to protect themselves. Technology should be used aggressively to reduce the risks to the organization. The infrastructure costs are nearly irrelevant in the business decision. Everything should be archived, and organizations should assume that Instant Messages, voice-mail, blackberries, and other electronically captured emails are all on the table to be archived. Management needs strong processes to ensure that emails are reviewed and audited, and any exposures found and eliminated before becoming a problem. HR should be actively reviewing emails to ensure compliance. Legal departments need to know of any problems before a litigant sees them or even asks for them. The benefits of this approach are more than just reducing risk and improving legal defenses. It is also about knowing more about litigants than they know themselves, and using the information aggressively to turn the tables. |
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Virtualization Energizes Cal State UniversityJohn 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 DeploymentA 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. | |||
