White Papers
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Data Protection Best Practices Data protection encompasses much more than backup and recovery techniques, extending to issues related to data corruption and data loss, data accessibility and availability, data confidentiality, and compliance. This SNIA technical white paper covers factors to consider when it comes to data protection at the storage level and offers detailed best practices. |
October 2017 |
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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. |
July 2010 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |