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February, 2008
Sun Introduces New Open Archive Solutions to Better Solve Explosive Data Growth Challenges for Customers
Comment on this... (0 comments) Feb 29, 2008New Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Storage Library Delivers Up to 50% Reduction in Space and Up to 10x Energy Costs Savings Versus Comparable Storage Solutions
A retention policy for electronically stored information is a definition of how long one will keep a certain type of information before it’s destroyed. Eg, perhaps you keep tax records for 7 years, intellectual property material for 15 years. Or perhaps you keep everything for an indeterminate period.
You can see retention policies for various organizations here--see comments further down this page. If you add your own data, we will send you a summary of the findings. Please either post your response as a comment, or if you need anonymity, email it to survey@ferris.com and we’ll post your response without identifying you.
Many thanks--David Ferris
Q1. Rough # people in your organization/company?
Q2. What is your title and what do you do?
Q3. What type of business/industry are you in?
Q4. What are your retention policies?
Q5. Did any internal policies, laws and/or regulations have impact on your retention policies? If so, which?
Q6. What advice would you give to peers trying to formulate and implement their retention policies?
Q7. How will your retention policies change over the next few years?
Q8. What are the main archiving products/services you use? If you have a home-grown solution, please tell us about it.
Q9. Are there additional retention-related questions on your mind, or do you have any other comments?
JINGLE is a protocol developed by Google and the XSF (XMPP Standards Foundation) to support VoIP (Voice over IP) communication, and it is used in Google Talk. We are seeing increased implementation of JINGLE (Wikipedia lists 11 implementations, including Google Talk, and we are aware of more).
XMPP is the Internet Standard eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol. Many XMPP clients now offer a “call” button (typically with a green phone icon) for each buddy (the XMPP roster) that allows direct voice communication between XMPP users. This integration is a useful capability. Voice communication goes directly client to client using the real-time VoIP protocol.
In order for this to work, the VoIP connection needs to be established, and this needs a session initiation protocol to communicate the desire to communicate and then negotiate the details of the VoIP connection to be used. JINGLE, which reflects the ringing of a telephone, is the XMPP protocol used to achieve this.
JINGLE is a general-purpose session initiation protocol, and can be used to negotiate connections for other services such as video, and can also set up multiparty conferences.
JINGLE is an important standard that seems certain to grow with XMPP and be used alongside XMPP, to support voice and video for XMPP clients. Voice calls from such clients can be gatewayed to other VoIP services, mobile and landline. GTalk2VoIP is an example of such a service.
The XMPP/JINGLE/VoIP combination of open standards gives a clear platform for solutions to compete against Skype, the (proprietary) market-leading software phone system.
E-Discovery Best Practices: The IT Perspective $
Comment on this (0 comments)Feb 28, 2008 David FerrisA growing proportion of lawsuits require the production of copies of electronically stored information. IT staff must now provide timely assistance in producing the data. This new responsibility is typically extremely disruptive to IT staff, and also very expensive. This report reviews the state of current U.S. federal laws relating to electronic discovery, explains the problems that have arisen, and summarizes current thinking on relevant best practices. We focus on the perspective of IT staff and the actions they should undertake.
Maxell Storage Outlook 2008: Forecast And Trends For Data Storage Managers (DataStorage-DataStorageConnection)
Feb 28, 2008The business need for more data storage will continue to grow over the next 36 months at a steady pace due to the increase in digital communications, e-commerce, and an ongoing regulatory environment. International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that the average data growth rate for companies will increase more than 600 percent between now and […]
F-Secure improves performance with new version of F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers
Comment on this... (0 comments) Feb 28, 2008Aladdin Chooses Commtouch Email Defense for Aladdin eSafe Content Security Solution
Comment on this... (0 comments) Feb 28, 2008CBT Direct Selects Vericept For Data Leakage Prevention
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DreamFactory Announces New Document Collaboration Application
Comment on this... (0 comments) Feb 28, 2008Salesforce.com customers can now easily share and transfer documents inside their Salesforce account for free
AVG Releases Far-Reaching Protection with Internet Security 8.0
Comment on this... (0 comments) Feb 28, 2008Major upgrade protects home and SMB computer users against a broad spectrum of security threats including web exploits, malware, rootkits, system intrusion, and spam
Daticon Announces Revolutionary EDD 2.0 Early Case Assessment Service
Comment on this... (0 comments) Feb 28, 2008Daticon’s Early Case Assessment service allows clients to address the numerous shortcomings of a traditional, brute force EDD process – time, cost and risk
In October 2007, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) industry group released an XML standard for easing the transfer of electronically stored information (ESI). EDRM has now released new tools and documentation to support the adoption of this standard.
In January 2008, EDRM released the following for download:
- Updated EDRM XML compliance load file (Jan. 23, 2008). For testing a product’s ability to import compliant XML files.
- EDRM XML Interchange Format Schema Documentation (Jan. 23, 2008). Describes the XML format.
- Updated EDRM XML XSD (Jan. 11, 2008). The actual XML Schema Definition.
- EDRM XML Validation Tool, Version 1.0.6 (Jan. 9, 2008). For testing a product’s ability to export compliant XML files.
EDRM also has an on-demand webinar that provides a good primer on this standard.
Electronic discovery (e-discovery) is complex due to the volume of data that must be analyzed, and the diversity of ESI sources. It is further complicated by the number of different tools (products and/or services) used through the process. Adoption of a common format to move data between tools will speed up the discovery process, reduce costs, and increase the quality of the presented content. This is the objective for the EDRM XML standard.
PGP Corporation Selects Lumension Security to Extend Enterprise Data Protection Solution
Comment on this... (0 comments) Feb 27, 2008Industry Leaders to Integrate PGP Whole Disk Encryption with Device and Application Control Technologies
SmoothWall helps businesses stamp down on instant messaging abuse
Comment on this... (0 comments) Feb 27, 2008C2C Extends Email Archiving Retention & Litigation Support to Aid FRCP & Global Compliance
Comment on this... (0 comments) Feb 27, 2008Latest version of Archive One supports Open Search 1.1 and Microsoft Search Server 2008
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