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Public Folders, love them or hate them, they are going away as we know them. So, what do you do with all the data that is in there? It’s got to have value, right? Otherwise why do you have terabytes of Public Folders? Do you know what you have?...

Are you in the midst of a virtualization initiative? Nearly half of all businesses have virtualized their data centers, at least partially. Better Disaster Recovery, Rapid Deployment, Easier Segregation, Enforcement of Policies & Regulations, Reduced Operational Cost for Datacenter, DMZ, Mission Critical Apps or Desktop Environment & Scalability Factors...

Big Data, Business Intelligence, Security, Information Overload, DLP, etc. – all phrases that are in vogue. It’s a common theme, you have a lot of data, you want to use that data, and you don’t want to lose that data. But, how do you that effectively, efficiently and economically?...

Nearly 50 (fifty!) years ago the Rolling Stones wanted people off their cloud. As people and companies are moving more and more data to the cloud the line “two’s a crowd, on my cloud, baby” is prescient. So what are you doing with your data? Are you moving it...

You have a lot of data – we know that. But, do you have information? Do you know the difference? Data is all the stuff you have, from real time data to stale folders that haven’t been touched in years. Information is the value that you derive from that....

How vulnerable we all are – government, business, and each of us personally – to any kind of intrusions. In this security conscious day and age, we spend huge sums on technology to protect our computer networks and data. Of course your business is secure – right? Can you...

Ah, the good old days, everything was at work, your computer, your phone, your files. From a security point-of-view, that was bliss. You were only concerned with someone walking away with hard copies of information. The world has definitely changed. Now people work 24/7 from anywhere they want. It’s...

Companies institute policy for a reason. Not “because we wanted to”; there has to be a  motivating factor. When it comes to creating and executing a Data Governance policy what are the drivers? Well, that depends on what industry you are in. For regulated industries, such as financial, healthcare,...

Data – you think you know what you have. Maybe you have put in place a data governance strategy, you have identified owners of data, and you have removed all of the stale data. Now what? You still have terabytes of data, sitting there, waiting to be used to...