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Reducing Your Enterprise Storage Footprint

footprintCheck out Greg Shulz’s recommendations

on how to reduce your information footprint

whether it’s online,

offline or

nearline data.

Data center nightmare captured on video

Reliable enterprise-class disk drives are critical for any trustworthy data center.

Redundant storage system designs are necessary.

Failover power and cooling is essential.

But sometimes none of that matters.  This video from Data Center Knowledge of a Vodaphone data center in Turkey demonstrates why remote disaster recovery is just as important as any other investment.  Store whatever data you value both “here” and “there”.

The video starts out almost comical; by Minute Six the situation has become dramatically more serious.

California ratchets up eDiscovery requirements again. Who’s next?

The eDiscovery process has been a moving target with a steady upward trend.  More and more data admissable as evidence, more and more requirements for companies to provide that data.

California has ratcheted up eDiscovery requirements yet again with the passage of the Electronic Discovery Act.

California is a bellwhether for many things, including eDiscovery laws. Expect requirements for businesses to continue their upward climb.

Disaster recovery used to rely solely on a good backup process.  Averting legal disasters depends on a robust eDiscovery process in place before the event occurs.

Storing business data these days is as much about getting it back out as putting it in.

When it comes to data & storage infrastructure, it’s good business these days to invest as much in eDiscovery as more traditional data protection.  Can any email, document, etc. be found and recalled quickly and efficiently?