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August 2007 - Posts

• Building Your IT Compliance Bookshelf

  Today I'd like to share with you a group of six books for you to consider if you are embarking on understanding IT compliance and related issues. This topic is becoming increasingly important as governmental regulators add more and more legislation Read More... Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:42 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: data governance, e-discovery, SOX

• Even a Mainframe Can't Survive a Fall of 8 Feet!

  Well, it looks like IBM is being sued by one of its customers because they dropped a server (purchased for $1.4 million) off of a forklift. By "they" I mean the customer. Yes, the customer dropped the server and the customer's response is Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:54 AM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: mainframe

• You’ve Gotta Integrate Database Archiving and Recovery

  Regular readers of my blog know that I’ve been advocating database archiving as a means to retain data for long retention periods. Basically, my position is this: When long-term data retention is imposed on your data -- anything more than a couple Read More... Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 4:08 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: database archive, recovery, backup

• Data Governance: Three Most Important Things?

  I receive a lot of questions by e-mail and from time-to-time I will post a Q+A response, that started as e-mail, to my blog. Here is one such Q+A: Question What are the three most important things to know about data governance? Please think about this Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:39 AM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: data governance

• DB2 9 for z/OS Features

  For those of you who read my blogs because of my work in the world of DB2 for z/OS (that's the mainframe folks), I just want to make sure that you are aware of my DB2portal blog . I'm currently in the middle of an on-going series of posts about Read More... Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 10:53 AM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: db2

• Preventing Data Leakage, Day Two

  The second day of the MIS Training Institute's Conference on Preventing Data Leakage was just as good, if not better than the first day. This two-day event focuses on the security concerns facing organizations in the era of risk and regulation. The Read More... Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:14 PM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: data security