Articles in category: 'General'

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Recovery or archive big data – no ambiguity please!

It’s happened again. A customer, under pressure to comply with new regulations has, asked us to retain all their backup tapes for 7 years. Even in the old world of tape this makes little sense – think of the problems if it was ever necessary to search for some data from 7 years ago.

  • Can the tapes be mounted (being older generation of tape cartridge)?
  • Are the tapes readable?
  • Can the application that created the data still be executed on currents servers?

..and all of this before tackling the challenge of searching hundreds of tapes for the right piece of data.

And the silly thing is that the data may well not be there! If the key data had been created and then deleted between successive backups then it would never have made it onto a tape. Just think how … Continue reading …

Keith Inight
June 14th, 2012
Categories: CIO Agenda, General
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Social Networking

Social networking enables users to manage, cultivate and extend real world or purely digital social networks through online communication mechanisms. Traditionally established as ways to replicate real-world connections (eg Friends Reunited launched in 2000), over the last ten years social networking has morphed to include relationships with people who have never (and most likely will never) meet but hold a bond of common interest.

Social Networking is still developing and changing fast in the business world.

Why is business so interested in social networking?

It is often quoted that if Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populous in the world[1], but if all of the members of the top 100 Social Networks were viewed in this way, it would have more than twice the population of China or 40% of the entire world population. Even though … Continue reading …

Will Hyams
October 8th, 2010
Categories: General
Tags: Changing Customer, Current Affairs, Social networking
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