RAIN 060731 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Data Retention: It ain’t what it used to be 2006-07-31 12:00:00.0 CDT By Bill Lyons Face it: It’s a different world out there. Some differences are obvious, of course. The staggering volume of data can confound even the best business forecaster: 36.2 billion e-mails a day? That’s the number researchers are estimating for 2006, and it keeps climbing. <http://www.s-ox.com/Feature/detail.cfm?ArticleID=1924> DOD arms soldiers, allies with information FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA ... According to the survey, document control, e-mail management, and records management and archiving were the top three content management applications that ... <http://www.fcw.com/article95412-07-31-06-Print> Heading Off Trade Secret Theft BusinessWeek - USA ... Theft of trade secrets by rogue employees is a serious problem that employers must recognize and prevent, says Lisa Fleming, a partner in the Boston-based law ... <http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jul2006/sb20060728_415583.h tm?chan=top+news_top+news> Fire in the hole! FIRE IN THE HOLE!! Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA ... and smoke damage to other holdings are prudent, and recent studies and tests performed by the NFPA Research Foundation (Record Storage Compartmentation Study ... <http://computerworld.com/blogs/node/3109> 80-year-old 'blog' brings a family to life Hamilton Spectator - Ontario, Canada ... Compared to an archive's nit-picking order, it was a mess. ... "Look! Look at that. Isn't that fabulous," the archivist says in the quiet of Mac's archives. ... <http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilt on/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1154296210749&call_pageid=102042066 5036&col=1014656511815> One generation to the next: firefighters look at their history Quad-Cities Online - Rock Island,IL,USA ... him going through the big black books filled with news clippings that make up the Moline Fire Department's archive around the time the former archivist, Lt. ... <http://qconline.com/archives/qco/sections.cgi?prcss=display&id=299113> DataPreserve ‘Rescues’ Real Estate Clients RisMedia.com (press release) - Norwalk,CT,USA ... finding a reliable service to backup and protect their records is becoming a ... remote backup service includes online backup and offsite data storage, and ensures ... <http://rismedia.com/index.php/article/articleview/15413/1/1/> Information officers told to handle public records Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji ... Mr Kaitani said the proposed amendments would help strengthen partnerships between the National Archive and government offices and exemplified corporate ... <http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=45864> Poughkeepsie Journal, Mon, 31 Jul 2006 0:13 AM PDT After crash, clerk's office must go on http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060731/NE WS01/607310323 AMENIA — Supervisor Janet Reagon stood outside the town hall the morning of July 15. She said she had recently attended a meeting of town supervisors in which the discussion was about emergency preparedness. Future-proof Your Records EContent (press release) - Wilton,CT,USA ... way we value and manage our office content—those files that constitute 80 ... difficult to manage formerly paper documents as they morph into electronic records. ... <http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=16842&C ontextSubtypeID=9> State archives to initiate preservation of rare French books Kolkata Newsline - New Delhi,India At a governing body meeting held recently it was decided that the West Bengal State Archives would take the initiative of preserving rare French books and ... <http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=194905> Lock up your data Australian IT - Australia ... everything from email and contact books to financial records and documents, the ubiquitous ... hard drive and backup software to copy all data files from the ... <http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19969375%5E15864%5E%5Enb v%5E,00.html> Future of the Data Center; Rolling Out an E-Records System eWeek - Woburn,MA,USA Opinion: Learning lessons from the MySpace.com outage; a look at the possible data center of the future; how an investment in e-records is paying off. ... <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1996919,00.asp> Out of the woodwork, comes history Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia ... The British archivist compared the label to four samples of Snape Hamond's writing from Britain's National Maritime Museum Archives. ... <http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/out-of-the-woodwork-comes-history/20 06/07/31/1154198076282.html> The Jerusalem Post Corporations panic over their data With the conflict in the North intensifying and concerns that Hizbullah attacks may edge closer to the center of the country, corporations are increasingly concerned for the safety of their data and are stepping up their backup activities. "Situations like these wake people up because suddenly they realize how critical their data are to them," said Evan Lever, founder and general manager of DataBank, which provides off-site storage of data for its corporate clients. <http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1153292017337&pagename=JPost% 2FJPArticle%2FShowFull> E-Records' Bill of Health By Paula Musich July 30, 2006 Case study: The Fallon Clinic spent $24 million in preparation for an e-records system that would cut medical errors. <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1995900,00.asp> eWeek Future of the Data Center; Rolling Out an E-Records System <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1996919,00.asp. Peter A. Kurilecz Richmond, Va [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free. 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