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Regulations Squeeze Storage
The era of regulatory compliance is here and it will change how you work, even if that picture is not yet completely clear. Here's how to navigate the murky waters of compliance.
|Regulatory compliance storage to soar
The total storage required worldwide to accommodate records retained for regulatory compliance will grow from 376PB in 2003 to 1,644PB in 2006--a 64% compound annual growth rate--according to the Enterprise Storage Group, a storage analyst firm based in Milford, MA.
Although thousands of laws requiring the retention and securing of business and public records have been on the books for decades, new regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), are in the forefront these days because of their widespread effect and stringent requirements (See "SOX, HIPAA in a nutshell.") But SOX and HIPAA are just the tip of the regulatory iceberg, as nearly every business, healthcare organization and government institution is faced with complying with more and more federal and state regulations. And there's not much doubt that compliance will impose unprecedented demands on storage infrastructures. (See "Regulatory compliance storage to soar.")
An effective regulatory compliance program requires these four general efforts:
- Defining what data must be retained
- Determining how long it must be kept
- Ensuring that it can't be altered
- Producing the information in a timely manner while ensuring its authenticity
Regulators are essentially letting businesses determine the most practical and effective retention methods, rather than dictating specific storage formats. Public auditing firms will play a big role in deciphering the rules. Casey points out that the auditors "will be helping to interpret what Sarbanes-Oxley means to you in terms of what kind of records you need to keep, how long you need to keep them and how you protect them from loss or damage."
A company's auditors and legal specialists should work closely with its storage managers to certify that the process ultimately devised to satisfy compliance is verifiable and well documented. Jose Carrera, enterprise risk management practice leader for Singer Lewak Greenbaum & Goldstein LLP, an SEC-registered CPA firm in Los Angeles, says his firm reviews its clients' information technology controls and stresses the importance for storage managers to have a formalized approach to developing internal controls for compliance. "There has to be an electronic depository because you need a snapshot of what happens," says Carrera, adding that procedures should be "monitored and updated for future reviews of those internal controls."
For storage managers, the keys to a successful compliance program include:
- Working closely with business units to understand the specific types of information that must be retained
- Determining if specialized tools will be needed to extract the data
- Ascertaining the appropriate storage media for retention data
- Ensuring that retained information can be easily and quickly retrieved in the future
Working with the relevant lines of business, a storage manager should be involved in the classification of data to help set priorities for compliance. For some organizations, the most expedient choices seem to be saving everything or not saving anything at all. "Deleting everything is not appropriate, primarily because it can expose the organization to even more risk," says Peter Gerr, an analyst with the Enterprise Storage Group, Milford, MA. But saving everything--touted by some as the surest way to ensure compliance--can be just as risky.
Retaining all company records will require a significant investment in additional storage capacity, along with the ongoing costs of managing and maintaining that storage. "It's not practical or cost-effective to keep everything," says Gerr. Saving everything can also hamper compliance by making it more difficult to produce information in a timely manner when requested by a regulatory agency. There's also the very real danger of saving too much information--information that may be used to your company's detriment during legal or regulatory proceedings.
Some storage managers may think that they've covered the compliance bases because they have an effective backup system in place. But backup doesn't necessarily equate with data retention for compliance purposes. "Backup is for recovering from failures of one kind or another. Archiving serves a different purpose and has different objectives and performance criteria," says Contoural's Casey. Relying on backups for compliance may make it difficult--or even impossible--to find and produce the requested information in a timely manner.
Lars Linden, a principal at State Street Global Advisors in Boston, MA, an institutional investment firm managing more that $1.2 trillion, is equally dubious about relying on backups. "You'd better darn well be extremely well-funded both in terms of time and dollars," says Linden, because of the effort required to rebuild records from the backup data.
|Tape endures, disk gains for retention storage
While tape will continue to be the most favored media for compliance data retention, a survey by the Enterprise Storage Group indicates that the use of disk systems for retention will grow at an even faster rate.
To be sure, determining storage requirements and procedures for regulatory compliance is a group effort. "It really does require a close working relationship with the clinical units," says Daniel Morreale, CIO of the North Bronx Healthcare Network in New York City, describing his formula for success when dealing with HIPAA requirements. Morreale advises that IT take an active role and ask questions such as: "What [data] are you collecting; why are you collecting it; how will you need to see it now; and what do you anticipate your needs with this data are going to be down the road?"
Developing a written policy for all involved parties to sign off on is a critical step. In some cases, putting together a compliance plan might require interpreting dozens of regulations. For multinational companies, this task can be daunting. Lois Hughes, senior manager of business application systems at Tektronix, says her team had to understand the requirements of the dozens of countries where they do business to put together their retention system. "We have a central retention document that is maintained current for all 27 countries where we do business," says Hughes.
But even without the special demands imposed by a global business model, creating a policy can be taxing. Although his organization primarily heeds only to state regulations, David Taylor, CIO of the Florida Department of Health in Tallahassee, FL, says, "The most difficult thing in the project was developing policy, and getting all the people and partners to agree on the policy, rather than the technical implementation." As with most organizations faced with compliance issues, the Department of Health formed a working group: "We pulled together the legal staff, the HIPAA compliance staff, the security and privacy staff, as well as folks that were administering the system," says Taylor.
While preparing for compliance can be an arduous process, it can be regarded as an opportunity to finally get a handle on storage and data management. "Compliance shouldn't be seen as a corporate tax, but really as an opportunity--a strategic investment, actually," says ESG's Gerr, noting that an effective compliance effort also "helps organizations both improve their ability to manage and protect valuable information."
"First of all, it's good business," says John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School and six affiliated hospitals, in describing his organization's HIPAA compliance efforts and the related benefits they discovered. "The timing was right--we could both achieve what we thought was essential for our users and meet what we imposed on ourselves as HIPAA reliability standards."
Disk issues
Few of the regulations that compel a company to retain data actually prescribe a required type of physical storage. One prominent regulation--the SEC's rule 17a-4 for broker-dealers--says that if electronic media is used to retain records, they must be stored "exclusively in a non-rewriteable, non-erasable format," which suggests that WORM disk or tape would be required.
The vast majority of compliance rules, however, don't go that far. But as part of the process of ensuring that retained data can't be tampered with, many companies are opting for special storage systems such as EMC Corp.'s Centera, IBM Corp.'s TotalStorage Data Retention 450 and Network Appliance Inc.'s SnapLock. These storage systems effectively lock retained data, barring any modifications or deletions of records until predetermined retention periods have elapsed.
|What users want in compliance software
The Radicati Group, a consulting and market research firm based in Palo Alto, CA, surveyed 21 companies representing nearly 400,000 employees to determine their regulatory compliance activities. This chart shows the key factors that the companies cited as motivations for selecting archiving software.
North Bronx Healthcare Network's Morreale says they took a broader approach when designing the storage system for the data that HIPAA requires they retain. Because the digital images they must retain are so voluminous, they added 280TB of various forms of EMC storage over the past two years. Morreale describes the lifecycle approach they took: "The more current stuff I'm keeping on my SAN [storage area network], and as we age it out, our intention is to move to NAS [network-attached storage], where it's not so transactional anymore, and then we're going to archive on our CAS [content-addressed storage]."
As the result of its compliance program, Harvard Medical spent about $2 million for additional storage, and also instituted a tiered-storage architecture with an eye to implementing information lifecycle management (ILM). Toward that end, Halamka put a system in place to prioritize 200 applications and their related data that started with the question, "If you take each application that we run, what are the demands for uptime, data integrity and recovery?" Based on this analysis, they were able to determine how to migrate data between their EMC Symmetrix and Clariion systems, and then to their StorageTek tape libraries. While they eschewed WORM tape, Halamka says that their medical images are stored on an EMC Centera device and then moved to tape.
State Street Global Advisors' Linden says the firm will expand its storage spending by approximately 30% to 40%. Linden sees compliance as an opportunity to implement ILM. "When I have to engage in a technology refresh, I look to use that as a funding mechanism to further our storage framework." He also figures that their increase in storage spending would have been greater without the ILM effort.
At Citigroup in New York City, meeting compliance requirements is an enormous undertaking because of the size of the company, the number of subsidiary companies and the corporation's varied financial businesses. For example, senior storage engineer Shaun
Mahoney says they've implemented an interim e-mail archiving solution using journaling and off-site storage. With 235,000 e-mail users, Mahoney says, "The scale of our e-mail environment prohibits us from using a lot of solutions at their present maturity levels." Citigroup is working with several e-mail archiving vendors to modify their programs so they can handle Citigroup's large number of Exchange users.
Of course, Citigroup's regulatory efforts go well beyond e-mail. "It's not just e-mail or just instant messaging--it's across the board," says Mahoney, adding, "I don't know of any business that has only one application that deals with financial markets." To cope with the storage requirements of compliance, Citigroup has already "a fairly sizable amount" of storage capacity to meet their interim requirements and the company expects to add significantly more, especially when a final e-mail solution is put in place.
Future access
Figuring out what to save and where to put it is just half of the compliance equation. The real acid test of a successful compliance program is being able to produce information when requested. This can be a bit dicey, even if the requested information is relatively new, but is in a form that makes it difficult to search for and find specific data. For example, a typical backup of an e-mail application might capture all the data, but it would be difficult to find individual messages related to a particular topic, for instance.
Software tools that archive e-mail and database applications not only take the sweat out of the task of archiving the data, but they also provide the means to quickly find discrete portions of information. The Florida Department of Health used to rely on backup tapes for saving Exchange data, according to CIO David Taylor. But while it protected the data, access was a problem. They installed KVS Enterprise Vault for Exchange and the benefits were almost instantly realized. Before KVS, Taylor says, they would have had to "pull all the backup tapes from our 20 Exchange servers that are distributed statewide and restore all those tapes" to rebuild an Exchange server and extract all the data, tape by tape. That effort could take over 1,000 man hours.
"With the KVS system," says Taylor, "we were able to restore 7,700 e-mails in under a 10-minute search, with another three hours or so of work to extract the messages. The e-mail that's archived by the KVS application is stored on an 8TB EMC Centera array rather than tape, which greatly facilitates access. Taylor expects the current Centera configuration will meet their needs for the next three years.
Tektronix uses OuterBay's Application Data Management (ADM) suite to manage the archiving of its multinational database applications. The LiveArchive module in the suite winnows databases of aging data based on user-defined policies and moves it to less expensive storage. Ultimately, OuterBay's application can migrate the records to an "encapsulated archive" where they are saved with the appropriate metadata using XML to preserve them as complete transactions.
Because OuterBay uses XML to archive the records, the information will be accessible even if the originating application is unavailable. Over the years, applications are likely to change or be replaced, and application data structures are likely to undergo modifications, too. In those cases, if data is kept in its native format, satisfying an information request might entail rebuilding old application environments. OuterBay's XML-based archival allows the old data to be accessed and read using any XML-capable application--even a Web browser. Princeton Softech's popular Active Archive suite of database archiving applications also offers an XML output option to help ensure future accessibility.
KVS takes a similar approach with Enterprise Vault by providing an option to store archived e-mail in HTML format. "We do that because keeping an HTML rendition gives you your best chance of future proofing," says Mary Kay Roberto, senior vice president at KVS. Roberto notes that over a period of a few years, systems are likely to be upgraded, which could make recovering e-mail that was created with earlier application versions difficult. Organizations that have to deal with long retention periods should give serious consideration to saving data in non-proprietary formats.
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, uses Documentum to archive data in PDF format from its PeopleSoft applications to ensure that the information will be accessible during its seven-year retention period. Although it's a proprietary format, PDF is so widely used that it approaches de facto status as a standard for document exchange. While Documentum also supports XML and HTML formats, Henry Vail, systems architect at the university, says they opted for PDF to conform with state guidelines for storing nonalterable content. To further ensure the integrity of retained data, they store it on a NetApp SnapLock system, which replaced their overburdened optical storage setup.
Documentum--paired with an EMC Centera array--is also the key to State Street Global Advisor's compliance program. "Those technologies coupled together have met the litmus test for various proofs in terms of validation of records." Linden cites the variety of output options that Documentum offers, and sees it as "a very solid fit with the rest of storage infrastructure."
Once an archiving system is in place--for e-mail, databases or file system content--it should be part of the compliance policy to periodically test it to ensure that data can be retrieved quickly. Testing should also be part of the process whenever host applications are upgraded.
Desktops and beyond
As companies scurry to meet compliance requirements, the immediate pain points are usually e-mail and corporate accounting systems, as these systems typically house the data that is required for retention. However, a growing amount of corporate data subject to retention regulations now resides outside the data center on desktop computers and at remote storage sites.
ESG's Gerr points out that applications such as Oracle Financials and PeopleSoft have internal auditing capabilities to keep track of documents produced by those applications. But data that's produced or altered outside the applications represents "an area that is woefully underserved." Gerr adds, "It's very, very difficult to protect the edge."
However, there are ways to address the desktop issue, including backing up all network-connected desktop systems using a product such as Connected's DataProtector/PC. DataProtector can be launched locally or set to periodically back up desktop machines; it only backs up changed data and doesn't store data duplicated on multiple machines, so its effect on performance should be minimal.
Some companies protect desktop data by enacting policies that use logon scripts to ensure that all documents are saved to network drives rather than locally. It's company policy at Citigroup, according to Shaun Mahoney, to store desktop data centrally and they're now addressing the issue of remote PCs. "We're looking at ways of working remotely that centrally store the information whether it's thin clients or VPN connections that provide a way to access that data centrally."
The Florida Department of Health takes a similar approach. Says CIO Taylor: "We don't permit, to the best of our ability, people storing any data locally--it's all on their own network shares." For laptops, they rely on users copying their data to central storage when they reconnect to the network. As part of their HIPAA compliance effort, North Bronx Healthcare Network has also banned desktop storage, diverting all data to networked storage in a physically secured data center.
Other considerations
In the future, the question of what to save will undoubtedly become more problematic, especially when considering new and emerging technologies. For example, will digitized voice mail messages saved by VoIP systems fall under the same rules that govern the retention of e-mail and instant messaging (IM)? With the growing popularity of VoIP, it's a good bet that this technology will have an impact on regulatory compliance at some time. Mobile devices also pose some unique challenges, such as device-to-device messaging that skirts the corporate e-mail or IM systems.
But a more immediate concern is turning a compliance plan into action. In addition to expenditures for additional storage, companies should expect other costs such as training staff to help ease the impact of compliance. In some cases, compliance will expand storage operations to the point where additional staffing is required.
Harvard Medical School's Halamka created the storage manager position to help facilitate compliance activities and to advance the organization's ILM implementation. Halamka says the new position is just part of the repositioning of storage as a strategic asset to the organization.
At Citigroup, the extensive compliance effort required adding staff. "Your existing staff is going to have to devote more time to documentation, compliance training, certification and audit," says Shaun Mahoney.
For companies just starting down the regulatory compliance path, it's important for IT--and particularly storage managers--to step up and take a lead position. "IT people have to realize that they play a very important role in enabling compliance," says ESG's Gerr. But he adds that "IT managers have to change [their] frame of mind from a box-centric or systems-centric to an information-centric perspective."


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Faith in the strength of the economic recovery is at its strongest than at any time over the last five years, according to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Institute of Management Accountants Global Economic Conditions Survey (GECS).
The GECS quarterly survey, the largest regular economic survey of accountants in the world, gauging the views of ACCA and IMA finance professionals globally, revealed that in the last quarter of 2013 55% believed conditions were improving or about to do so, up from 53% in the third quarter of 2013.
However, when it came to the prospects of their own organisations, finance professionals' confidence fell marginally with 35% reporting a loss of business confidence, up from 32% in Q3.
The modest loss of confidence contrasts sharply with improving fundamentals on the ground. The results for Q4 2013 still represent the strongest year-on-year confidence gains since mid-2010.
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The strongest confidence gains in Q4 2013 came from Ireland, where business confidence soared following the end of the country's bailout and fiscal adjustment programme, as well as a strong return to the capital markets.
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"Emerging markets, on the other hand, are being buffeted by the outward flows of funds triggered by the Federal Reserve's intention to taper its asset purchase programme, and business confidence is once again strongly linked to price and exchange rate stability – suggesting a real threat to regional, if not global, financial stability. What finance professionals tell us through GECS this year will be vital in ascertaining the direction businesses are taking."
From a sector perspective, the last quarter of 2013 saw renewed confidence among smaller organisations.
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Economy and capacity at odds
With fewer bucks in the budget, storage managers are facing some constraints in dealing with growing storage capacities. But, according to Storage magazine's Purchasing Intentions survey, they're responding by earmarking some of those dollars to newer technologies like data deduplication that will help them cope with burgeoning data stores.
| Storage managers are starting to feel the pinch of a slowing economy, but they still have to store and protect more data than ever.
The weak economy hit storage managers with a double whammy: less money to store more data. According to the latest edition of Storage magazine's Purchasing Intentions Survey, the average storage budget reported by respondents was $2.6 million--not a meager amount, but 19% off the average figure reported last spring and 24% less than last fall's tally (see "How storage budgets break down," below). And if you turn the calendar back a couple of years and compare it to the fall of 2006, the drop is even more precipitous at 28%. It looks like some belt tightening is the order of the day, at least for the foreseeable future.
But even with fewer bucks in the bank, dollars are earmarked in much the same way as in the past six years, with the biggest chunk (42%) going toward disk hardware (see "Where storage budget dollars go," below). While disk and disk system prices have decreased significantly over the same period, the portion allocated for those items has hovered steadily around the 40% mark. It's simple math: Prices might be lower, but capacity requirements are up, so disk expenditures still gobble up the largest slice of the budget pie.
Disk and more disk
Christine Winsor, systems administrator at Olympic Associates Company, a Seattle engineering and design firm, says the firm recently acquired two EqualLogic arrays to complement two NAS systems already in place. "We have added over 10TB of usable space with the addition of these storage arrays," says Winsor, noting that Olympic Associates had to increase its 2008 budget to accommodate purchases. "This is the largest purchase I think we've ever made," she adds.
Winsor started looking at EqualLogic's products before it was acquired by Dell Inc. "The timing was fortuitous," says Winsor of the acquisition. "We're pretty much an all-Dell shop. They gave me a deal I couldn't refuse."
Distribution of disk dollars
Storage managers obviously bought big back in late 2006-early 2007 and are filling out the available capacity of many of their arrays; it will therefore be interesting to see if a shift back to funneling budget bucks into new arrays is imminent as existing systems reach their limits and leases expire. Currently, 22% of respondents' disk dough will be used to buy new Fibre Channel (FC) arrays, with iSCSI, NAS, multiprotocol arrays and DAS sharing the rest of the budget relatively equally.
The types of storage arrays managers have bought or intend to buy this year continue to swing toward midrange systems as those arrays gain sophistication, performance and capacity rivaling traditional high-end systems. For smaller companies, 43% say they will purchase a midrange array vs. 34% last fall; midsized companies saw a similar jump in midrange interest, from 46% a year ago to 55% today. But enterprises are also hitching a ride on the midrange bandwagon, with 47% saying they'll go that route vs. 40% last year.
EMC Corp. still leads the pack among the disk system vendors our respondents say they bought from this year. But Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. has been slowly closing in on EMC (moving from seven or eight points behind in 2007 and early 2008) and has cut EMC's lead down to only five points. Picking up EqualLogic helped propel Dell past IBM Corp. and into third place.
And while array features/functionality is still the most important selection criteria, power consumption is gaining attention. Last spring, 33% of those surveyed said power consumption was the most important consideration or a major factor for selecting a disk system; this time, that figure rose to 39%.
iSCSI juggernaut?
Surprisingly, the largest increase in planned iSCSI deployments was among larger companies, with 38% opting for iSCSI vs. 32% last spring. Enterprises also seem to be shaking some of their reliability and performance concerns about iSCSI, as 24% of those surveyed say they would use it for mission-critical apps. And 29% of big companies plan to run email on iSCSI, the highest percentage we've seen to date (see "What applications will you put on your iSCSI SANs?" below).
But for some companies, iSCSI isn't stirring up much interest. "We're happy with our [FC] SAN and local disk," says Stan Horwitz, senior systems manager at Temple University in Philadelphia. For other storage pros, it took a change in perception to consider a non-FC system.
"You have that FC mentality of 'Why would anybody use iSCSI? Fibre Channel works,'" says William Clemons, VP of technical services at ProAssurance Corp. in Birmingham, AL. "It really was a learning experience for us to kind of break away from just thinking of it as disk." Clemons and his group finally settled on a pair of NetApp arrays on which they'll run iSCSI along with FC and CIFS.
While the move to iSCSI has been something less than a stampede, it's definitely occurring. Compellent, LeftHand Networks and Nexsan Technologies Inc. have all moved into the Top 10 list of vendors that respondents from larger companies say they have purchased an array from or plan to. All three are primarily iSCSI vendors, which is just a little more evidence that iSCSI isn't just an SMB play.
Downsizing tape libraries
By doing our surveys twice a year, we can often detect budgetary "corrections" that occur during the year; that is, adjustments from what managers hoped to accomplish in the spring to what they can realistically get done in the fall. For planned tape system spending, we often see that kind of mid-year adjustment.
In the current survey, 25% of respondents say they'll decrease tape spending this year (a few points off last spring's numbers), while 32% will increase spending in this area vs. 29% in the spring. It's a small shift to be sure, but it suggests that storage managers might have been more optimistic last spring about the degree they could reduce tape reliance.
But even if they couldn't achieve planned reductions in tape system purchases, storage managers appear to be successful at downsizing the tape libraries they do buy. The average number of slots in planned library purchases dropped by approximately 40% to 78--the lowest level we've seen to date. While we've seen similar drops in slot numbers comparing spring to fall surveys, 40% is the largest margin yet. And these reductions go across the board, regardless of company size. Last spring the average number of slots in new libraries for smaller firms was 71; this fall, it's 35.
"Tapes are just a pain," says ProAssurance's Clemons. "Our plan is that before the end of the fourth quarter that we will be off tape completely."
Still, for those who predict tape's demise, it's not likely to happen soon, as 84% of disk-based backup users say they spin some or all of their backup data off to tape. So tape isn't gone, it's just getting smaller.
"Most of the stuff goes directly to tape," says Temple University's Horwitz, but his shop is looking to reduce its use of tape. "We have an RFI out now for some sort of intelligent disk target for backups, and more than likely it'll be some VTL [virtual tape library]."
For tape systems, LTO is by far the format of choice, accounting for 70% of planned purchases, with about 32% of respondents opting for LTO-2/3 drives in their libraries. LTO-4 adoption, which appeared sluggish at first, seems to be picking up some serious steam; 26% say LTO-4 is their primary format for 2008 drive purchases, more than double the number from just a year ago (see "Adoption of LTO-4 tape format," below).
"We're investigating possibly using LTO-4," says Olympic Associates' Winsor. With big changes in store for their production storage systems, she says, "I think it would be a good time to re-evaluate our tape backup."
While those saying they'll increase disk-to-disk (D2D) spending contracted a bit from the spring, 80% will continue to spend at previous levels or increase spending for D2D backup this year, which is consistent with the results we've seen over a three-year period. And of all the features storage managers want to see in their backup apps, the ability to back up to disk continues to top the charts (60% vs. 56% last spring).
Plans to implement VTLs also eased a bit, with 24% saying they'll go that route vs. 32% last spring, but we saw a similar spring-fall shift last year.
Deduplication still generates the most sizzle among backup technologies, topping our hot list with 67% of those surveyed planning to implement it or evaluate it this year. Sixty-six percent say they'll maintain or increase spending levels for dedupe, which is about the same as last spring, but nearly 10 points higher than spring 2007. There's also been a steady drop in the number of managers who say they have no dedupe plans (37% in spring 2007 vs. the current 30%).
For Winsor, updating Olympic Associates' tape systems to LTO-4 drives is a backup priority, but dedupe is also on the list. "We're definitely going to have to take a look at that," she says. Horwitz is even more emphatic about Temple University's interest: "I'd be really surprised if we don't implement some sort of dedupe solution within the next six months."
Additional evidence of the increase in interest and spending for dedupe is Data Domain Inc.'s rise into the top five vendors respondents cited as their main D2D vendor last spring; in this survey, Data Domain solidified its hold on that place by adding a little more than a point to its tally.
ProAssurance's Clemons says they will implement dedupe on backup and some primary storage. "We're supposed to get our first Data Domain box by the end of the year," he says. For primary storage, Clemons will tap the ability of his NetApp boxes to compress data. "We expect to have some decrease in disk utilization because of the deduplication from the NetApp," he notes.
Deterring disaster
Wide-area replication continues to gain ground with 41% of those surveyed saying it will be the main focus of their DR spending. That's less than a point above the second choice, offsite tape, but you have to go back two years to find more respondents opting for replication than offsite tape services. Again, this suggests a continuing shift from reliance on tape.
For WAN spending, DR extended its lead as the top driver by picking up a full 10 points over last spring's level. With 54% of respondents saying DR was the chief motivation for their wide-area spending, it's the highest ranking we've seen since the spring of 2007.
The use of archiving applications also picked up, with an increase of nearly six points over last spring's numbers. There's ample evidence that the archiving market is maturing as it's now far more common for companies to be using some form of archiving than not, with nearly two-thirds saying they use archivers.
There's also renewed interest in email archiving, with 29% saying they plan to purchase one of those products this year. That's a full eight points higher than in the spring, and also higher than the levels we saw last year. "The only way that email will be manageable is if we start archiving," says Temple University's Horwitz, "so that has to happen." (See "What types of data archiving products are you currently using?" below.)
"Right now it's not something that's a big item for us," says Clemons, whose hands are full with a number of other projects.
Among those taking the virtualization plunge, no method has emerged as the favorite; roughly 12% say they'll opt for array-based virtualization and approximately the same number will go the appliance route.
On the file storage virtualization front, there's a slight increase in interest, with 11% expecting to go in that direction. It's still a relatively modest number, but about twice that of two years ago.
On the horizon
At the other end of the spectrum, a few technologies appear to have worn out their welcomes or not lived up to expectations. A whopping 70% say they'll pass on automated provisioning products, with only slightly fewer eschewing storage chargeback systems.
A tough economy coupled with growing capacity needs can put a crimp in users' plans to evaluate or implement new technologies. We'll have to see how the economic and capacity issues play out over the rest of this year and into 2009 when we survey next spring.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek
The Abbey Library of St. Gall is one of the oldest monastic libraries in the world; it is the most important part of St. Gall's Abbey district UNESCO world heritage site. The library's valuable holdings illustrate the development of European… + Show more
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer
The Fondation Martin Bodmer is one of the most important private libraries in the world. It seeks to reflect the "adventure of the human spirit" since the beginning of writing; in this it follows the example of its founder Martin… + Show more
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek
The Abbey Library of Einsiedeln is rightfully considered a typical monastery library. Around the Holy Scripture as its center point are arranged the spiritual, theological sciences in an inner circle, around these in an outer circle are arranged all other… + Show more
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek
The Benedictine Abbey of Engelberg was founded in 1120; its library's collection of manuscripts, incunabula, and historical and modern books has continually grown since that time. The library holds a total of about 135,000 volumes; of its 1,000 manuscripts, about… + Show more
Zürich, Zentralbibliothek
The Zentralbibliothek Zürich (ZB; Central Library of Zurich) is the cantonal, municipal and university library of Zurich. Its department of manuscripts holds manuscripts and manuscript fragments dating from the 6th to the 21st century. The collection contains over 600 medieval… + Show more
Bern, Burgerbibliothek
The Burgerbibliothek Bern is a cultural institute of the Burgergemeinde Berne, a Civic Community. The Burgerbibliothek in its current state was established in 1951 when the town and university library was transformed into a foundation. Today the Burgerbibliothek is open… + Show more
Fribourg/Freiburg, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire/Kantons- und Universitätsbibliothek
Fribourg's Cantonal and University Library owns a significant collection of manuscripts dating from the Middle Ages to the present day, archival holdings and incunabula. This collection comes primarily from the religious communities of Fribourg that were dissolved in 1848, notably… + Show more
Luzern, Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek
The Central and University Library (ZHB) of Lucerne is the library service center for the University of Lucerne, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (FH Zentralschweiz), the University of Teacher Education Lucerne (PH Luzern) and for the Lucerne… + Show more
Solothurn, Zentralbibliothek
The Central Library of Solothurn is a cantonal, municipal and regional library. Its collection of printed books, including about 1,000 incunabula, is among the most extensive library holdings in Switzerland. With about 100 medieval manuscripts and a much larger number… + Show more
St. Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung
The Vadian Collection, which is owned by the Ortsbürgergemeinde (citizen's community) of St. Gall, is a permanent deposit in the cantonal library; it contains, among others, about 100 medieval and 700 early modern manuscripts. The late medieval illuminated manuscripts and… + Show more
Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek
The medieval and early modern collection of the Cantonal Library of Aargau's manuscript department is home to numerous valuable rare and unique items. The often beautifully illustrated manuscripts come mainly from the private library and collection of the family of… + Show more
Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum
This library contains manuscripts from a variety of private collections that have chosen to publish selections from their most treasured books on e-codices. These manuscripts can be used and cited in the same way as others on the site (please… + Show more
Fribourg/Freiburg, Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster
The library of the Franciscan Monastery is a private library; it joined RERO (the network of libraries of Western Switzerland and union catalog) in 2013. The library contains about 35,000 volumes, 10,000 of which date from before 1900. The majority… + Show more
[sine loco], codices restituti
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Vom Pergament ins Internet
St.Galler Tagblatt, 01/09/2015
Handschriften sind zum öffentlichen Gut geworden
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 01/08/2015
Berns schönste Bilderchroniken online
Bieler Tagblatt, 02/01/2013
Mittelalter-Handschriften online
Schweizer Radio DRS, Kulturtipp, 01/07/2009
Cataloguing the Middle Ages in cyberspace
swissinfo.ch, 11/14/2008
Bringing a Trove of Medieval Manuscripts Online for the Ages
The New York Times, 10/20/2008
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I choose to shoot locations that appeal to the way I would like to interpret the story of time. Here in the Pacific Northwest, there are endless opportunities to document the magnificence of the world around us. I have discovered that when time is the storyteller, a special kind of truth emerges.
Absolutely incredible. Beautiful doesn't begin to describe it.
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SANTA ROSA – A Sonoma County sheriff's deputy fired eight shots within 10 seconds at 13-year-old Andy Lopez Cruz, who was carrying what turned out to be a replica of an AK-47 rifle southwest of Santa Rosa Tuesday afternoon, a Santa Rosa police lieutenant said today.
In a news release, Lt. Paul Henry said an autopsy today showed seven entry wounds in Andy's body. One of the bullets that caused a fatal wound entered the right side of Andy's chest and the other fatal bullet entered the teen's right hip, Henry said.
Four rounds were recovered at the scene and three were recovered from Andy's body, Henry said. There were non-fatal wounds to his right wrist, left bicep, right forearm, right buttocks and right hip, Henry said.
"Investigators believe eight rounds were fired at the scene," Henry said. One or more of the bullets might have caused more than one entry wound, Henry said.
At a press conference Wednesday, Henry said the deputies were 20-30 feet from Andy when he was shot at the edge of field at the intersection of Moorland and West Robles avenues in unincorporated Sonoma County, now the site of a growing memorial to the eighth grade student.
Grief, indignation and demands to fire the deputies followed the shooting in the Latino neighborhood. The sheriff's office has not yet identified the deputies, who are on paid administrative leave.
There have been vigils at the memorial site at the intersection and a protest march was held Wednesday night. Another march is scheduled for noon Friday from the Santa Rosa Police Station to the sheriff's office in Santa Rosa about 2.5 miles away.
Henry said the deputies took cover behind the open doors of the patrol car when they saw a person with a rifle.
One of the deputies shouted "put the gun down," Henry said. Andy's back was toward the deputies, and he then began to turn toward the deputies when the deputy shouted, Henry said.
The rifle was in Andy's left hand and one of the deputies said that as Andy turned toward the deputies the barrel of the rifle was raising up and turning in his direction, Henry said.
The deputy behind the open passenger door was familiar with lethal power of what he believed was an AK-47 assault rifle, and he feared for his and his partner's safety and the safety of community members in the area, Henry said.
The deputy fired several rounds, striking Andy, Henry said.
The deputies approached Andy, handcuffed him and immediately began life-saving measures, Henry said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Andy also had a fake handgun in his waistband. The rifle did not have an orange tip on the barrel that is required on replica firearms but the handgun did, police said.
A timeline Henry provided this afternoon states that at 3:14:15 p.m. the deputies notified the dispatch center about a suspicious person in the area.
Four seconds later, the deputies called for emergency assistance from other deputies in the area, and six seconds after that the deputies notified dispatch shots have been fired, according to the timeline.
Emergency medical aid is advised to respond to the scene at 3:14:41 p.m., 26 seconds after the first report to the dispatch center.
The autopsy, conducted by Dr. Arthur Josselson of the Forensic Medical Group, was attended by the Santa Rosa Police Department and the Sonoma County District Attorney's Office, the agencies that are investigating the fatal shooting.


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- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 1/2 cups chopped white onion
- 5 large garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 1/2 tablespoons chili powder
- 2 cups crushed tomatoes with added purée
- 1/2 cup sliced drained pimiento-stuffed green olives plus juice from jar
- 3 cups diced cooked chicken
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 12 6-inch corn tortillas
- 2 cups sour cream, divided
- Chopped green onions and chopped fresh cilantro (for garnish)
Recipe Preparation
Preheat oven to 375°F. Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic. Sauté until onion is tender, about 4 minutes. Stir in chili powder. Add crushed tomatoes and 4 tablespoons juice from olives. Simmer sauce until flavors blend, about 6 minutes. Season with pepper and more olive juice, if desired.
Combine chicken, raisins, and olives in large bowl. Mix in 3 cups sauce. Season filling to taste with pepper.
Spread 1/2 cup sauce over bottom of 13 x 9 x 2-inch glass baking dish. Heat 1 tortilla directly over gas flame or in hot skillet until just softened, about 10 seconds per side. Place on work surface. Spread 1 tablespoon sour cream in strip in center. Top with 1/3 cup filling. Roll up tortilla. Place enchilada, seam side down, in prepared dish. Repeat, making 11 more enchiladas. Spoon remaining sauce over. Cover dish with foil.
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More than 40,000 PGA Professionals, manufacturing executives, retailers and industry leaders are at the Orange County Convention Center for the 59th PGA Merchandise Show this week, where the latest and greatest in equipment, apparel, technology, tools, footwear -- you name it -- will be unveiled.
It doesn't matter how old we are, there's nothing like new toys.
So, in light of this week's PGA Merchandise Show, we asked our PGA.com Facebook fans to tell us: What area will you spend most of your golf dollars in 2012?
Here are the top answers we received:
9. Tees. Yep, that's one answer we actually received. Either this PGA.com Facebook fan is a comedian, uses solid gold tees, or he's buying golf tees at the wrong place.
Facebook fan quote:
"Tees." -- Rick Urbin
8. Golf balls. Understandable, but a little sad too. I remember spending each summer day playing 18 holes in the morning with a great uncle as a kid. On every hole that had water, my uncle would grab an old, crummy golf ball from his bag to use. He didn't want to lose, "one of the good balls." Nice, positive attitude, huh?
Facebook fan quote:
"Golf balls." -- Tom Lovell
7. A new driver. It's like a shiny, new car in a way, isn't it? Equipment-wise, it's probably second -- cost-wise -- only to a full set of irons.
Facebook fan quote:
"Driver." -- Padraig Conway
6. A golf membership. Man, wouldn't that be nice?
Facebook fan quotes:
"Membership." -- Jim Denoncourt
"Membership." -- Brandon Knowlton
5. The 19th hole. Hey, what can we say? Honesty is the cornerstone of golf... and our Facebook friends are honest.
Facebook fan quotes:
"The clubhouse bar." -- Jamie Gay
"Beer." -- Kim Colborn
"Beer and golf balls... Run out of both!" -- Patrick Doyle
"19th hole!" -- Donald Bull
4. Apparel. You've got to look good, right?
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"Apparel!" -- Anji Eure Gustafson
"It's not how well you play... it's how good you look that counts! Yay, clothes!" -- Megan McQuade
3. Irons. If you get properly fit for your new irons, you'll never regret it.
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"Irons... can never get enough practice with those clubs!" -- Barbara Jones
2. Greens fees. This is probably the same category most of us fall under. Hopefully all that money you spend in 2012 is worth it!
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"Greens fees. I didn't play as often last year due to me finishing law school and now that I've done that, 'I'm back!' to golf." -- Kevin L. Warmack
"Greens fees by far! Nearly $5,000 in greens fees in 2012!" -- Chris Lange
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"Greens fees." -- Ron Ramsey
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AndrewGardner necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 74 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
We require an iconic logo for Australian major label recording artist, Digga, based on the 'digging man' that you see on cautionary signs near construction sites ('digging man/workmen ahead').
Here are the links for provide two JPG files that contain decent, workable image of the 'digging man' that you will need, the rest is up to you!
Something between a corporate and a street logo is what we are looking for though something cool, quirky and Japanese inspired, that wouldn't look out of place on a nightclub flyer would also be great.
Digga requires an iconic and instantly recognizable logo, based on the traditional "digging man" construction sign. It can be a very simple, yet effective design, in the shape of a triangular. the word "DIGGA", sitting underneath would need to be a dynamic, yet simple
Looking for a logo designed for the same reason that the Rolling Stones have the
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unmistakably relatable to a musical artist (namely, Digga). This logo will be used on any and everything
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show flyers, merchandise, promotional material – well, you get the idea).
Digga has had some success in the Australian music industry, working as a
rapper and writer on a collaborative album with an American born producer that
spawned 3 Aust. Top 20 singles, 1 Aust. Top Ten single and a certified Gold Selling Aust.
single (this all went down around 2004/5).
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If you want an mp3 of a track to get an idea of what Digga is about then
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- I want a logo where the 'digging man' appears above the word DIGGA (all
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rectangle (I'm not sure how thick the border should be).
- In terms of inspiration, I'm thinking of the N.B.A. (National Basketball
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- In terms of colours, I'm thinking green and chrome and white, although I'm
fairly open to suggestion. Maybe the
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border could be a third colour, on a white background. I definitely like the idea of a grainy,
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nicely within the rectangle.
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- So, I don't want
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"hip-hop" stylings.
- I'm a firm
believer in going wherever your artistic leanings take you, so I'd really like
to see two versions of the logo – one where you stick to the vague, rambling
specifications I've made (sorry about that!), and a second where you do
something different that is more of your own style.
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Sir Barry, 78, died in Brisbane's Mater Hospital at about 1930 (AEDT) on Wednesday with his family members and former partner, Fua, present.
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A formidable politician, he first came to PNG as a Kiap, or provincial administrator, in 1953 at age 18.
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I think about British food that is diversified and tasty.I live in Romania and here is a lot of food recipes.I like general to eat healthy food who I prepared myself.
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This video is part of our Word on the Street series. Word on the Street is an exciting new English Language teaching programme co-produced by the BBC and the British Council.
Carmen: The Chinese introduced oriental food to Britain. But before the Chinese, immigrants from all around the world came to live in London.
British people enjoy a huge range of food and flavours from other countries.
This is Borough Market, London's oldest food market. Today, you can find food here from all over the world.
This is Italian cheese. Each group of settlers brought their own food and styles of cooking and people here embraced the exciting new flavours… maybe because British food wasn't very good.
Restaurants from all around the world can be found on most British high streets. Indian, Chinese, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Persian... the list goes on.
But just what are the UK's favourite dishes?
On the Street: My favourite meal is Thai green curry.
On the Street: One of my favourite meals is... cottage pie with peas.
On the Street: My favourite food is... Chinese ... Chinese.
On the Street: What's my favourite meal? Still full English breakfast.
Chef: This is a full English breakfast. Tomato, black pudding, sausage, bacon, egg, mushroom.
Carmen: A big fried breakfast might not be to everyone's taste. But in Britain, there is something for everyone.
Celia Brooks Brown is a food writer and knows all about food and the future of food in the UK, today.
Mmm! It looks good. What have we got here, Celia?
Celia: Well, this is a British tomato salad with a Yorkshire-made sheep's cheese. And here we have a Barnsley lamb chop with new potatoes and a mint hollandaise sauce.
Carmen: So is this a sign of developments in British cooking?
Celia: Yes, people want to know where their food comes from. Chefs in restaurants like these are reinventing classic British dishes. They're using ingredients that are locally sourced and locally grown.
Carmen: So what about world cuisine?
Celia: Well, anything goes. Chefs love to experiment with ingredients from different cultures. And we live in a globalised society, it's very exciting.
Carmen: OK, Celia, if you were cooking these dishes at home, what ingredients from different cultures would you use?
Celia: Well, I might use something like this. This is a Moroccan spice mix called Ras el Hanout. Have a sniff.
Carmen: Hmm. That's really strong.
Celia: Lovely, isn't it? Now, this might make a lovely spice rub for that lamb chop.
Carmen: I can't wait to taste this.
Carmen: The food in Britain reflects the many different cultures here. But some of the old favourites are here to stay. I'm off for my favourite, fish and chips. Want a chip?
What do you think about British food?
I think about British food that is diversified and tasty.I live in Romania and here is a lot of food recipes.I like general to eat healthy food who I prepared myself.
Hi Iulia20! Thanks for your comment. You mentioned the diversity of British food and in the video they talk about foods from around the world. Do you eat food from different countries too in Romania? What kind of food is popular nowadays?
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This video is fantastic. Food in britain is delicious and my favourite dish is fish and chips
I am writing at 11 pm and I feel hungry! They look so delicious!.. I didn't have many other countries food yet.
I'm feeling hungry. ^^
I like the variety of Brisitsh food
In vietnam have a lot of special food. and my favourite meal is all that... :)
I think that British food is a taste one...At least everybody must try that ...Including here british breakfast too....
However I must say that Albanian food is such a wonderful one .... You must try albanian's pie or Albanian traditional food .... They are awsomee
Nice.Maybe one day I will go to England and try some Britain food : )
It seems to be delicious. However, I live in China, i get no time to taste it. What a pity!
I think that british food is really tasty for the teens but it isn't healthy because it has only fried foods
I think it's very interesting and tasty. Pies are awesome , and I like the way they are preparing breakfasts. :) ♥
It was so interesting,I want to know more about England♥
Bring it to me:))
I really enjoy the video!! i like the Borough market because you can try all types of food from all over the world in one place! in my country we don't have something like that!!
mmmmmhhhhh........... fish and Chips
hello from ITALIA english food its delicious i think... now i am tasted italian food who wants ?
well.... I prefer my mother and grand mother food because it is very delicious . In general , I don't like to eat other cultures food , but maybe I will try it in the future.
In my country,Russia, borchs and okroshka are very polular. I like it,but i prefer spice dishes as well. A lot of russians drink black tea every day. You can see a bun of bread in each family. I rarely eat british dishes but if I was suggested the english breakfast - i would not refuced.
I didn't try any before , but I think I'll like it :D
I think, British breakfast is too much for me, but my favourite food is french fries.
And this video looks soo good!!!
British food..... very delicious
I think that british people don't have their own, traditional food. But food which Britannians are eating is very tasty and delicious that's why they like it very much and me too. :-)
I have not eaten it.
that is so good in my country we dont make this things wh make ravaioli tacos poritos things like that idont want to do this but chet this is not good
Heavy breakfast britain c: But I wanna give it a try.
here' a joke I found once:
-American kid: Do you have tea with the queen?
-British kid: Do you to McDonalds with Obama?
In Algeria the breakfast isn't too huge . we drink milk with cookies and some coffee.but our lunch is very very huge .
I think it was good I guess but Most of foods that I ate in London isn't actually British food but still I loved British foods too and I love London so much ...
i think that the food in Britain is very delicious.
The foods seem so delicious but I didn't eat them yet. :-\
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Investors dip a toe back in the stock marketJuly 26, 2012: 2:12 PM ET
Investors have mostly been pulling their money out of the stock market this year, but last week investors showed a little ounce of love for stocks.
According to the Investment Company Institute, investors added $99 million to U.S. stock mutual funds in the week ended July 18. While that's not much, it's a welcome change from the usual flight from stocks.
The inflow came as investors hoped that the Federal Reserve may take steps to stimulate the economy in the wake of a slowing recovery. Investors were also encouraged by a slew of better-than-expected earnings reports. The biggest upside surprise came from JPMorgan (JPM), which delivered a $5 billion profit despite a trading loss of $5.8 billion so far this year.
Related: The risks of more Federal Reserve action
Still, investors haven't been big fans of stocks for the better part of 2012. In fact, they have yanked money out of the stock market for 20 of the past 22 weeks. Since the beginning of the year, investors have pulled more than $55 billion from U.S. stock mutual funds. By comparison, these funds lost $13.6 billion during the first six months of 2011 and $24.6 billion during the first six months of 2010.
Meanwhile, bond mutual funds continued to attract investors, raking in $6.5 billion in assets during the latest week, compared with the prior week's $6.4 billion inflow.
Hybrid funds, which invest in both stocks and bonds, gained $905 million during the third week of July, building on the prior week's $1.8 billion inflow. Taking the middle road has been good for hybrid funds, which have enjoyed inflows for much of 2012.