Neon Enterprise Software Blog

Browse by Tags

• analytics
• archive
• backup
• data governance
• data security
• data storage
• e-discovery
• InfoSphere
• IOD
• IOD2009
• recovery
• regulatory compliance

• IBM All Abuzz About Analytics at IOD2009

  Today at the IBM Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas, IBM talked about – and announced several new and exciting initiatives and products focused on business and information analytics. The new offerings announced by IBM include: New pre-configured Read More... Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 6:46 PM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: database archive, IOD, IOD2009, InfoSphere, analytics, archive

• Catch Jack Olson’s Database Archiving Tour

  Regular readers of my blog know that I have written extensively on the topic of database archiving as a needed discipline for enterprise database management. Data may need to be archived from production databases for many reasons, the most common of which Read More... Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 12:07 PM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: database archive

• The Impact of Data Volume on Operational Databases

  Operational databases are growing in size for many reasons. There is the overarching trend of more and more data being generated every year. But also, there is the growing need to store more data for longer periods of time due to regulatory compliance Read More... Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 1:51 PM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: database archive

• Long-Term Digital Information Retention and Preservation

  Organizations are generating and keeping more data now than at any previous time in history. This is the case for many reasons. First of all, the amount of data in general is growing. According to industry analysts, the amount of enterprise data stored Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:50 PM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: database archive, regulatory compliance

• Archive Your Data to Minimize the Potential of a Data Breach

  Data breaches continue to dominate the IT newscape, with bigger and uglier data breaches being announced on a weekly basis. Just in the past couple of days (since April 10, 2008), perhaps 50 thousand or more records were breached in four separate events. Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:04 PM by cmullins | 2 Comments Filed under: database archive, data security

• 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

• 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

• Data Retention

  As regular readers of this blog know I have written extensively on the issues, procedures, and practices involved in archiving data from operational database systems. Database archiving is a growing trend because of the data retention mandates imposed Read More... Posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:07 AM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: database archive

• Computerworld Tackles e-Discovery and Archiving

  Regular readers of this blog know that I've been discussing the trends and requirements driving organizations to archive database data and to prepare for the e-discovery requests that will be made upon that data. Well, lo' and behold, Computerworld Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:04 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: database archive, e-discovery, data storage

• New Database Archiving Articles

  Those of you who've been reading my blog for awhile know that I've been talking about the trends and requirements for database archiving . Well, I've been writing about database archiving issues in print publications, too. This past week two Read More... Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 1:58 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: database archive, e-discovery

• 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

• Long-Term Archiving Tips

  Just a quick post today to point you in the direction of a short article ( Long-term archiving dos and don'ts ) that outlines some reasonable, high-level advice to help ensure that your archived data is not just archived somewhere, but accessible Read More... Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 8:18 AM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: database archive

• Metadata Requirements of Database Archiving

  When archiving data from a database it is imperative that metadata be captured and archived along with the actual data. Indeed, analysts at Gartner corroborate this assertion saying “Metadata must be preserved when files are requested for evidentiary Read More... Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:12 AM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: database archive

• Long-Term Data Retention = Archiving

  Regular readers here know that I've been blogging about database archiving for the past couple of months. And you'll also know that the primary driving factor influencing the need to archive is compliance with the long and growing list of governmental Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:57 PM by cmullins | 3 Comments Filed under: database archive