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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
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