I’ve recently been introduced to the idea of ‘search styles’. Despite using Google or other search engines almost every day of our lives, it seems – if they’re anything like me – that most of us don’t really think about how we search for information. It seems natural: you log on, you type in the name of the theme park you’re going to at the weekend, and after a few clicks, you’ve managed to find the directions you were after.
The Data Protection Act, which has been in force since 1984, deals with any personal information that is collected or stored on paper and electronically. In April this year, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) dictated that those in breach of the act could be fined up to half a million pounds in addition to the possible undertakings already open to the ICO as penalties.
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This month, the EU is set to debate a potential increase in its carbon reduction targets from 20% to 30% below 1990 levels. While a decision on whether or not to do so seems far off, it is worth considering the implications of such a decision for businesses both within Europe and also those trading with Europe.
The government’s attempt to drive improvements in healthcare, including the introduction of electronic patient records, can place significant demands on a healthcare organisation’s IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, the IT systems in many organisations are unable to cope. Opportunities exist, however, for IT departments to take advantage of vendor-neutral storage infrastructures and meet the demands of the modern healthcare environment, as this video demonstrates:
People buy solutions because they fix problems, or save them money. Solutions come in many shapes and sizes and their success usually depends on the ability to execute. That often means, differing components that come to together and bring out additional strengths, the product being greater than the sum.
Last week I was at our Global HQ, working on plans for the coming fiscal year. A key topic of discussion was the Deduplication market, mainly discussing how it will evolve. One question on everyone’s mind was the role it will play in primary data? How does saving HDD space, which is relatively cheap, anyway, really benefit users? We talked about the competitive landscape and I asked about FalconStor.
Our second installment of video content with Field Fisher Waterhouse, a top UK legal firm, introduces issues around transparency and records management within the information governance debate.
Lately I have been discussing our joint initiatives and market activities with many of our channel partners. Typical work that my team and I do at the beginning of every quarter!
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We’d now like to share the first of videos jointly produced with Field Fisher Waterhouse, a top UK legal firm, discussing our theme of Information Governance. Lynn Collier recently met with Stewart Room, a partner in Field Fisher Waterhouse’s Privacy and Information Law Group to understand the challenges which organisations face today around good data governance. They talked about a number of issues, and we will return to many of their talks later on. For now, let us turn to their discussions around how information governance has become a global issue; how companies need to be looking at the classification, retention and policies they use to govern data and how they can access information in a timely manner.
By: Lynn Collier
on December 14, 2009
Following a number of discussions with customers and partners I spoke with my colleague Alec Selvon-Bruce regarding the likely uptake of cloud solutions by non-commercial entities. Alec has a wealth of experience in working with public service organisations in regard to sustainable IT and environmental challenges surrounding IT infrastructure to support all manner of government and public body applications
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