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A Data Protection Taxonomy
This paper presents a data protection taxonomy, that is, a classification of aspects relevant to data protection, that the industry is encouraged to use as a reference when asking and answering questions about data protection. This taxonomy is defined in terms of who, where, what, why, and how.
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July 2010
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Step by Step Guide to Using the The Information Lifecycle Management Maturity Model
Organizations looking to reduce operating costs and improve efficiencies in the data center, now have a roadmap for improvement and a tool to assess the alignment of their information assets with the needs of the business. This paper offers an overview of the current state of ILM and explains how to use the ILM Maturity Model developed by the ILM Initiative in collaboration with the SNIA End User Council.
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September 2009
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Building a Terminology Bridge: Guidelines for Digital Information Retention and Preservation Practices in the Datacenter
This document offers terminology that will empower communication and collaborative efforts for setting the business requirements for information assets in the datacenter. This paper provides the SNIA DMF’s description in the context of “long-term digital information retention and preservation,” along with the definitions from other reference sources for comparison.
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May 2009
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The Need for a Terminology Bridge
Terminology in the datacenter can be very confusing. At least 20 different dictionaries exist and are available on the internet. In addition, IT, records management, security, legal, compliance, and the business groups all have their own vernacular. This document explains the objectives of the full report “Building a Terminology Bridge: Guidelines for Digital Information Retention and Preservation Practices in the Datacenter."
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May 2009
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Database Information Management: An Essential Business Practice
The database administration community has long focused on what they call the “data management” challenges associated with databases: data quality, cleansing, modeling, master data, mining, etc. Now is the time to address the “information management” challenges as well. This paper explains how the application of a management framework such as Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is a viable approach to help optimize the performance and reduce the operating costs of databases and the enterprise applications that rely upon them.
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May 2009
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Multi-tier storage saves energy, space
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Aug 2008
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Understanding Data Deduplication Ratios
Data deduplication and other methods of reducing storage consumption play a vital role in managing today’s explosive growth of data. The DMF Data Deduplication and Space Reduction SIG (DDSR SIG) explores the significance of deduplication ratios related to specific capacity optimization techniques, within the context of information lifecycle management. Each of these techniques has a valuable role to play in improving data storage efficiency.
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July 2008
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CDP - Solving the Problem of Recovery
This document reviews traditional methods of data protection and availability, and offers insights into an alternative data protection solution - Continuous Data Protection (CDP). Often touted for its ability to provide instant restoration and granular recovery, CDP also solves the backup window challenge by eliminating the backup window itself, enabling the creation of backup copies anytime, day or night, without affecting online operations.
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July 2008
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Evaluation Criteria for Data De-Dupe
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Dec 2007
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100 Year Archive Requirements Study Report
This report by the SNIA Data Management Forum 100 Year Archive Task Force, captures the operating practices, requirements and issues facing organizations managing large amounts of information. "Digital information is at risk of being lost." That is the warning from the practitioners who participated in the survey.
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June 2007
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Collaborate or Die!
If you want to successfully solve the complexity and cost crisis in the datacenter, you have to change current practices and begin working together as an organization. Our contention as the SNIA Data Management Forum, in publishing this paper is to emphasize the importance of managing and operating the datacenter based on the value-of, and requirements-for information to the organization. Step one for successful information-based management, is to collaborate with all information stakeholders in order to define the requirements for information, so that it can be managed properly over its lifecycle.
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January 2007
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Storage Service Management, The Foundation for Information Lifecycle Management
Information lifecycle management is much more than tiered storage or even hierarchical storage management. ILM is a dramatic change in information management, focusing on the value of information and delivering storage services based on management requirements. Understanding the storage and information aspects of business processes is generally outside the current repertoire of Storage Administrators and Enterprise Architects. This White Paper is intended to discuss the issues and benefits arising from an information lifecycle management (ILM) effort.
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October 2006
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Collaboration: The New Standard of Excellence
The complexities involved in managing records and information today touch various aspects of the organization. As a result, many disparate operating groups now own a piece of the information management puzzle – whether they realize it or not. And therein may well lay the biggest challenge. Collaboration is the solution to the puzzle. It offers a way to regain control and put new value creation back on an equal footing with managing risk. Organizations must do both to survive. This paper is Co-authored by ARMA International and the SNIA Data Management Forum.
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July 2006
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Managing Data and Storage Resources in Support of Information Lifecycle Management
This document provides an overview of the concepts associated with aggregated data service management based on data Service Level Objectives (SLOs). This includes the ability to identify and manage data and storage resources in the delivery of dynamic, distributed computing environments, and the ability to manage and optimally apply these resources using the concepts of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).
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July 2006
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The Power of XAM
The increasing chaos and complexity of owning and managing trillions of data objects in the datacenter is insurmountable with conventional approaches based on discrete, and often competing, management processes. This paper discusses why the SNIA XAM specification is profoundly important for the future of information-based management.
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July 2006
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ILM and Tiered Storage
Tiering of storage is an important strategy for Information Technology (IT) services. Yet, tiering is not ILM. It is common to see the two confused. This paper will discuss how tiering storage is an important component of an ILM practice, but not everything. Tiered storage is how we arrange storage repositories. In a tiering context, ILM is how we manage the repositories based on the requirements over time. ILM aligns the business requirements and business processes with the service level requirements, in an automated fashion, from data creation to data deletion.
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February 2006
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Information Convergence: Transforming the Information-Centric Enterprise
This paper explains the trend in which operations, practices, applications, and roles are converging around information and its value to the organization, transforming the enterprise into an “Information-Centric Enterprise.” With “Information Convergence” as the driver, the appropriate response is to transform the enterprise from independent islands into a unified information-centric organization.
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January 2006
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