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January 2008 - Posts

• Continuous Data Protection and Database Archiving

  There is an interesting article in this week's issue of eWeek titled 5 Steps to Continuous Data Protection . The basic premise of the article is that organizations are not doing enough to ensure the protection of their company's data. The article Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:20 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: database archive, recovery, backup, data storage

• Database Security Books for DBAs

  With the onslaught of increasing governmental regulations and never-ending news stories on data breaches, securing corporate data is indeed a hot topic these days. You can also see just how hot by taking a look at the recent books published on database Read More... Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 4:05 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: data security, database auditing, DBA

• DBA, One of the Highest Paid IT Jobs?

  Hot on the heels of recent IT salary surveys comes the Robert Half Technology 2008 Salary Guide . And there is some good information in this report. As reported in CIO Insight , there are 30 IT jobs with "high-range average salaries topping $100,000." Read More... Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:38 AM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: database news, salaries, DBA

• Accessing Archived Data

  I've written frequently on the need to archive your database data for long-term retention ; even for hundreds of years . Topics have spanned the spectrum from how to know what to archive to protecting the authenticity of archived data ; and from integrating Read More... Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 10:03 AM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: database archive, e-discovery

• 100 Year Archive Requirements Survey

  The SNIA Data Management Forum has published a very useful and informative study on archive requirements titled the 100 Year Archive Requirements Survey . The survey was conducted by the 100 Year Archive Task Force, which was created by SNIA because of Read More... Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:14 PM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: database archive, data storage