September 2008 Archives
Relevance and worthiness rarely dictates the plausibility or rationality we give to storing mass amounts of data and consuming large storage infrastructures. Jack Domme of Hitachi Data Systems clearly states in his Storage Trend Predictions that there is a growing awareness that we are using storage inefficiently with too many redundant copies. The ease and rate at which we create, send, duplicate and save information is nearly unimaginable. (read more)
Imagine being informed of an impending lawsuit that would require the excavation of all electronically stored information within your organization. Firefighting comes to mind. The common response and practice of many organizations is to form large teams of personnel across the enterprise are led by Legal in response to these allegations. As IT would soon expect, Legal soon bombards them with questions about the organization's electronically stored information. After all, why would IT expect Legal to understand or know where to begin in issues that are rooted in IT technology? (read more)
In Part I, Exchange Upgrades--Think Before You Jump, I took a quick look at Microsoft Exchange 2007's new compliancy features. Through the use of journaling, managed folders, and cross-mailbox searching Exchange 2007 flaunts a compliance solution that is slightly lacking. While there are definite compliance features within Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 tries to maintain complete control of all information. In effect, Exchange 2007 loses any long term management control by moving information to different areas of the Exchange server and allowing users to manage their own information. (read more)
I have heard that more than 50% of all Microsoft Exchange users will have upgraded to Exchange 2007 this year. During an upgrade, administrators and end users are impacted by these issues: Exchange 2007's 64-bit machine requirement could turn costly, especially for clustered environments. Granted, 64-bit hardware is snappier and has near identical price points as 32-bit hardware. But if an organization is not near the end-of-life for their currently deployed 32-bit hardware, purchasing 64-bit hardware is an unneeded expense. (read more)
