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Sharepoint E-zine Vol.4: Balancing SharePoint Governance by SearchWinIT
by putting in place service models and rules for IT governance. That should go a long way toward getting control back in your hands. Want to give up a little bit of control to lighten your workload? SharePoint has built-in features that allow site owners to create site maps without any custom coding at all. This month's issue walks through the process of creating a...
Hitachi and Symantec: Build Your Archiving and Discovery Strategy Today by Continental Resources
the job for you. In one powerful solution it gives you a flexible, scalable, intelligent and easy-to-manage solution that delivers performance and scalability to meet the needs of any sized e-mail environment. Today, more than 10,000 government regulations require businesses to keep unstructured digital content for extended periods of time. And the...
EMC SourceOne™ Email Management: A Next-Generation Email Archiving Solution by EMC Corporation
adoption of email archiving solutions include IT governance, compliance, discovery, and optimization. However, in today's IT budget-constrained environment, the economic advantages of archiving are playing a stronger role in driving archiving investment. The current economy in concert with the growing volume of email and the increasing importance of email in business...
Nearline Storage Update by Data Domain
Data deduplication has proven to be the enabling technology for network-based disk backup and recovery. Data deduplication has proven to be the enabling technology for network-based disk backup and recovery. Data Domain delivers these same benefits to nearline storage applications, such as:

  • Archiving
  • IT Governance
  • Application Protection
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Governance, Risk, Compliance: Policy Management - Methods and tools by SearchSecurity.com & SearchCompliance.com
com delves into issues surrounding governance, risk, and compliance from a policy management standpoint. It can help you navigate choppy compliance waters and find the right fit for your business. This E-Book from SearchSecurity.com and SearchCompliance.com covers governance, risk, and compliance from a policy management standpoint. IT managers are looking...
SharePoint E-Zine Volume 10: Quantifying the Success of Your SharePoint Governance Policy by SearchWinIT
how to convince top management that SharePoint governance should be a top priority. Find out how to create a multidimensional strategy to monitor all of SharePoint's moving parts, and learn three approaches for document management systems integration. Can you justify the time and resources it takes to create a SharePoint governance document? Get expert advice in this...
Sharepoint E-zine Vol.3: Using SharePoint's InfoPath feature to generate forms by SearchWinIT
top tips for harnessing Microsoft SharePoint governance. Looking to save money with SharePoint? Take a closer look at InfoPath, a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 application that allows forms to be created and filled in using a Web browser. Learn how to master the WYSIWYG forms designer in InfoPath, one of SharePoint's most underused features. For IT managers...
The Data Governance Maturity Model by DataFlux Corporation
quality of their information. Through the Data Governance Maturity Model, organizations can identify precisely how they can create an environment that can deliver and sustain high-quality information. With the amount and complexity of corporate data growing, the success of any organization hinges on the ability to maintain visibility of data. The cost of...
Sharepoint E-zine Vol.1: Governance Implementation Management by SearchWinIT
focuses on three main areas: governance, management and implementation. Welcome to SearchWinIT.com's SharePoint e-zine – our new monthly Web magazine packed with in-depth articles and tips written by SharePoint pros and our editorial staff to make you a SharePoint master. Every month you'll find articles on key SharePoint issues that have the...
SharePoint E-Zine Vol.2: Practical IT Strategies for Enterprise Collaboration by SearchWinIT
top tips for harnessing Microsoft SharePoint governance. Thinking of upgrading or expanding your SharePoint installation? In our recent collaboration survey of Windows and Domino IT and messaging managers, we found out that roughly one-third of 1,500-plus respondents are either evaluating Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 or planning to deploy new or...
The Four Imperatives of Data Governance Maturity by DataFlux Corporation
to increasing the maturity of data governance initiatives - and how these efforts can help companies effectively maintain and manage their mission-critical data. As companies look for ways to cut costs, improve profits and meet an ever-growing list of compliance initiatives, businesses have reached the "age of accountability" where direct...
Mortgage Company Uses DataFlux Technology to Improve Reporting, Manage Compliance by DataFlux Corporation
data governance initiative to ensure that it was operating from the best possible data.

The company chose DataFlux dfPower® Studio and the DataFlux Integration Server to help it meets its compliance goals. Using the data profiling and data monitoring capabilities of dfPower Studio, the company's business analysts were able to work separately...
StoredIQ for Intelligent eDiscovery and Information Management by StoredIQ
management (GRC) and storage management for IT. The modern corporation risks serious financial loss as it struggles against the dizzying growth of data stores across the enterprise. The impact on corporate finances come both from the cost of managing all of that data, and the risk of failing to provide data for high-risk business processes such as litigation...
SharePoint E-Zine Volume 7: Who Is Allowed to Customize SharePoint? by SearchWinIT
Find out how to incorporate governance into SharePoint customization to empower users while setting boundaries. Users love to put their thumbprints on their SharePoint sites using customization features, but one false move can send the whole SharePoint environment crashing to the ground. Find out how to incorporate governance into...
SharePoint E-zine Vol.5: Document version control gets a face-lift in SharePoint 2007 by SearchWinIT
and improve enterprise search through governance planning.

These chapters will discuss:

  • Document version control in SharePoint
  • Five tips to improve Sharepoint doc management
  • If Lotus Notes/ Domino and Microsoft SharePoint can work well together
  • How SharePoint search gets a boost from governance planning

    • This eZine is sponsored by:

  • AvePoint
  • Neverfail
    • ...
    IDC Report: Information Governance for the 21st Century by EMC Corporation
    This IDC White Paper discusses an emerging information management architecture to address key cost, storage and compliance challenges, and specifically how the EMC SourceOne™ platform - in particular how its email management, discovery collection and discovery management solutions - address these challenges. This IDC White Paper...
    SharePoint E-Zine Volume 11: Managing Documents By Content Type by SearchWinIT
    parts of content management much easier, but it falls short on document classification. In this month's issue, learn different approaches to categorize documents. The best time to apply security to SharePoint is right from the start. Zero in on access control, application security and content security as part of your... SharePoint has made some parts of...
    Improving Organizational Decision-Making Through Pervasive Business Intelligence: The Five Key Factors That Lead to Business Intelligence Diffusion by JasperSoft
    than dissemination of information to all. It is quite possible that using BI with incorrectly specified models or misunderstood data is worse than not using BI in the first place.

    In this report, IDC set out to define pervasive BI and its key indicators, highlight best practices for moving along the path to pervasive BI, and identify the five key factors that...
    Avoiding Data Quality Failure: Identifying Data Quality by Pitney Bowes Business Insight
    versus perfection and also talk a bit about how it relies and relates to the data governance paradigm. He'll address challenges that one might have when dealing with the differences between data quality and data requirement needs across varied organizations in an enterprise...
    Oracle Grid Computing Achieved: Service-oriented HP Adaptive Infrastructure offerings for Oracle Grid Computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by Hewlett-Packard Company
    seeing diminishing returns from traditional IT approaches, where the proliferation of departmental or application-specific computing silos has resulted in under utilization, spiraling administrative costs, and major impediments to change. In an attempt to break out of this cycle, many organizations are rushing to consolidate IT but too often end up with...
    Getting Started with Master Data Management by DataFlux Corporation
    This paper focuses on what is master data, why it is needed, how to get started in managing it, and methodologies for implementing master data management. This paper focuses on what is master data, why it is needed, how to get started in managing it, and methodologies for implementing master data management. Master data management forms part of an...
    Security and Acceleration for Remote Users: Establish Policies and Protect Against Web-Based Malware by Blue Coat
    web content ratings centralize management for governance and enable detailed reporting for visibility. This Accelerates web applications, file access and data transfers - all while increasing user productivity. Learn about a community watch malware cloud defense and web content ratings, centralized management for governance and detailed reporting for...
    SharePoint E-Zine Volume 8: Must-have Free SharePoint Tools and Add-ons by SearchWinIT
    In this issue you will learn about some handy tools and utilities that are helpful to fill in SharePoint functionality gaps. Tight budgets mean that SharePoint administrators need to do more with less. Fortunately, free tools and utilities for SharePoint installations mean that you can fill in functionality gaps without stretching your...
    Storage Landscape 2009: Best Practices Unveiled to Help You Store More for Less. by Iron Mountain Digital
    and data being retained longer to support governance, compliance, and business process support. Additionally, the globalization of the economy has increased the need for collaboration and sharing of information between coworkers, partners, and vendors. This presents a new challenge and an opportunity. This webcast will explore ways an organization can achieve...
    ESG: Data De-duplication & Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems by Data Domain
    there was an economic rationalization to use it, but data de-duplication-enabled solutions invalidate this. There are end-users that are mandated to use tape for governance and regulatory reasons, but they can use data de-duplication-enabled solutions to augment their environments. For those companies not so encumbered, they should certainly consider data...
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    Mainframe vulnerabilities: Be proactive rather than reactive by Robert Crawford, Contributor
    end up in personal or globally accessible datasets. It's tempting to take a quick backup of the PIN database under your ID but you must be very careful to delete it later.

    The disgruntled employee
    Unless the "thought police" work at your company, this has got to be the hardest thing to defend against. After all, the employee got all the access needed to... More...

    Stop server monitoring tools from crying wolf by Kyle Rankin, Contributor
    with the stream of emails you get when you first turn it on. It's amazing how many exceptions for an out-of-the-box monitoring solution are normal for your network. It might be those servers that always use the maximum amount of RAM, or it could be that the database machine has a load spike every few hours when a major report is run. If you have an IDS, it... More...
    Automating server management and IT processes by Audrey Rasmussen, Contributor
    Getting a handle on IT processes has been a major focus for IT organizations and management vendors over the past year.

    Some organizations and vendors are looking toward cross-domain IT processes. This is longer-term efforts due to organizational politics and cultural barriers that must be dealt with. But... More...

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    HP's new server aims for cloud, Web 2.0 apps by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
    of users, Martino said..

    BigStockPhoto.com, a website that lets users upload and download photos, supports between 10 million and 20 million pages of content monthly. Its compute needs are less aggressive than the large scale-out companies HP targets with this system, but like the bigger Web 2.0 companies, BigStockPhoto is "growing constantly, so a... More...
    Grow a green business: Cut costs and improve energy efficiency with green IT by Erin Kelly
    the challenges businesses may face and offers energy-saving solutions. A free download of Chapter 1 of The Greening of IT, "The Importance of Green IT," is available for review.

    Chapter 1 states many companies talk about reducing their total energy requirements, but are not actually going green where it counts. Why do you think this is true, and how can your... More...
    IBM doubles refund for Sparc migrations: News in brief by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
    could save about 4% on a server's power consumption.

    The updates also include a way to download HP-UX from high-bandwidth replicated servers to reduce deployment time and allows users to update the operating system while still online, needing only a standard reboot to switch to the new version.

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