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Issue 5 Your source for the latest SNIA Data Management Forum News and Events: 100 YEAR ARCHIVE STUDY - Last chance!: If you are concerned with long term information retention and digital archives, you have a few more days to participate in a key industry project by taking the anonymous online survey sponsored by the SNIA "100 Year Archive Task Force" at the following URL www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=733152599196. Please don't delay, we need your input now. Feel free to share this survey opportunity with others. As a thank you for participation, you will receive the compiled results of this study. Read about the 100 Year Archive Task Force and its objectives at www.snia-dmf.org/100year . OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: Nominations for DMF Initiative Co-Chairs are now open! It's that time of year again -- your opportunity to provide valuable insight, knowledge and vision to a prestigious professional community of your peers. Are you interested in leading the activities of any of the following Initiatives? If so, opportunity knocks just once a year and we want to hear from you! A brief summary of each of the three DMF initiatives are: The Long Term Archive and Compliance Storage Initiative (LTACSI) is a cooperative effort of end users, IT professionals, vendors, integrators, and service providers with interests in long-term digital information retention and storage compliance in accordance governmental and business regulations. The goal of LTACSI is to enable end users to make informed choices about long-term archive and regulatory compliance storage solutions and to gather end user needs to guide related SNIA activities. LTACSI operates the 100 Year Archive Task Force which is a multi-agency project focused on producing best practices and standards that support very long term digital information retention. The Data Protection Initiative (DPI) is defining new approaches and best practices for data protection and recovery. Members are working to organize and unify this emerging marketplace by defining new metrics, implementation guides, and reference models. The goal of DPI is to build a knowledge base and the training capabilities to become the worldwide authority on data protection and retention, and helping all of our constituents to better understand and implement data protection solutions. The DPI currently supports the Continuous Data Protection and Virtual Tape Library Special Interest Groups. The Information Lifecycle Management Initiative's (ILMI) work began with defining a vision for Information Lifecycle Management a unifying vision of what ILM will become and its impact on the datacenter. Now ILMI is working on the next elements of defining the reference architecture for ILM, including data classification, market & product segmentation, and requirements and use cases to drive the next release of ILM-related standards in SMI-S. Initiative Co-Chairs are asked to commit 2-4 hours per week leading initiative activities it could be the most beneficial hours you spend all week! Please forward nominations or questions to DMF Chair Jeff Porter at jporter@snia-dmf.org by Wednesday, November 29th. Elections will take place in December. Watch for these informative emails about twice a month with news on Data Management Forum activities and events. Comments, topic suggestions and questions are always welcome. Please send emails to ebull@advisorygroups.snia.org. Copyright C 2006, SNIA Data Management Forum ------=_NextPart_000_0088_01C76EF0.00497910 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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November 21,2006. Issue 5

Your source for the latest SNIA Data Management Forum News and = Events:=20

100 YEAR ARCHIVE STUDY - Last=20 chance!: If you are concerned with long term=20 information retention and digital archives, you have a few more = days to=20 participate in a key industry project by taking the anonymous = online=20 survey sponsored by the SNIA "100 Year Archive Task Force" at the=20 following URL www.surveymon= key.com/s.asp?u=3D733152599196.=20 Please don't delay, we need your input now. Feel free to share = this survey=20 opportunity with others. As a thank you for participation, you = will=20 receive the compiled results of this study. Read about the 100 = Year=20 Archive Task Force and its objectives at www.snia-dmf.org/100year. =

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: = Nominations=20 for DMF Initiative Co-Chairs are now open! =
It's=20 that time of year again -- your opportunity to provide valuable = insight,=20 knowledge and vision to a prestigious professional community of = your=20 peers. Are you interested in leading the activities of any of the=20 following Initiatives? If so, opportunity knocks just once a year = and we=20 want to hear from you!

A brief summary of each of the three DMF initiatives are:

The Long Term Archive and Compliance Storage Initiative = (LTACSI)=20 is a cooperative effort of end users, IT professionals, vendors,=20 integrators, and service providers with interests in long-term = digital=20 information retention and storage compliance in accordance = governmental=20 and business regulations. The goal of LTACSI is = to enable=20 end users to make informed choices about long-term archive and = regulatory=20 compliance storage solutions and to gather end user needs to guide = related=20 SNIA activities. LTACSI operates the 100 Year Archive Task = Force=20 which is a multi-agency project focused on producing best = practices and=20 standards that support very long term digital information = retention.

The Data Protection Initiative (DPI) is defining new = approaches=20 and best practices for data protection and recovery. Members are = working=20 to organize and unify this emerging marketplace by defining new = metrics,=20 implementation guides, and reference models. The goal of DPI is to = build a=20 knowledge base and the training capabilities to become the = worldwide=20 authority on data protection and retention, and helping all of our = constituents to better understand and implement data protection = solutions.=20 The DPI currently supports the Continuous Data Protection and = Virtual Tape=20 Library Special Interest Groups.

The Information Lifecycle Management Initiative's (ILMI) = work=20 began with defining a vision for Information Lifecycle Management = a=20 unifying vision of what ILM will become and its impact on the = datacenter.=20 Now ILMI = is working=20 on the next elements of defining the reference architecture for = ILM,=20 including data classification, market & product segmentation, = and=20 requirements and use cases to drive the next release of = ILM-related=20 standards in SMI-S.

Initiative Co-Chairs are asked to commit 2-4 hours per week = leading=20 initiative activities it could be the most beneficial hours you = spend all=20 week! Please forward nominations or questions to DMF Chair Jeff = Porter at=20 jporter@snia-dmf.org by Wednesday, November 29th. Elections will = take=20 place in December.

Watch for these informative emails about twice a month with = news on=20 Data Management Forum activities and events. Comments, topic = suggestions=20 and questions are always welcome. Please send emails to ebull@advisorygroups.snia.o= rg.

Copyright © 2006, SNIA Data Management=20 Forum

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