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- New Terminal Tower home in store for U-Store-It.(News)
- Save costs by knowing your data
- Goodbye to a mountain of paperwork

New Terminal Tower home in store for U-Store-It.(News)
Free with registration – Crain's Cleveland Business – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 30, 2007
(News) –> COPYRIGHT 2007 Crain Communications, Inc. Byline: STAN BULLARD U-Store-It Trust plans to move its corporate headquarters downtown in the latest development in the slugfest between the publicly traded company’s founding Amsdell family and current management led by Dean Jernigan. The self-service storage owner and operator soon will exit its Middleburg Heights headquarters, where it occupies a building developed and owned by the Amsdells, who develop and own commercial real estate as well as miniwarehouses. U-Store-It pays more than $300,000 yearly for the space in the Amsdells’ Parkview Building, 6745 Engle Road, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Workers last week were.

Save costs by knowing your data
FCW.com – Jul 30, 2007
Matthew Coblentz, principal product manager for EMC’s Documentum unit, said classification based on file content is an area in which today’s data classification products truly surpass the abilities of traditional hierarchical storage management (HSM) products. “Where HSM systems were solely predicated on the file system metadata that was available, now you can use classification products to crawl into the file and look for information inside,” Coblentz said. Storage giants such as EMC aren’t the only companies interested in advancing data classification. Several new companies employ a combination of metadata and content indexing to sort things out. Products from vendors such as Arkivio, Kazeon, Njini and StoredIQ fall into the information classification and management (ICM) category. The companies in that group offered software suites or hardware appliances with built-in software. Data classification products also differ in how they perform content indexing…
“You are going to want some level of classification in order to tier it properly. ”In the South Carolina Attorney General’s office, the Compellent SAN moves data from primary to secondary storage after 12 days. Data accessed four times after moving to secondary storage is moved back to the top storage tier, Loy said. Electronic discovery, or e-discovery, is an emerging application that data classification vendors have targeted. Organizations charged with producing electronic documents for legal or regulatory compliance purposes may increasingly turn to classification tools to do so, some storage analysts say. “A lot of people are being required to retrieve information in a very short period of time,” Oseth said. Such requirements necessitate having products with content indexing and search capabilities, he said.

Goodbye to a mountain of paperwork
FCW.com – Jul 30, 2007
“We are bringing this information together for the first time. ”Collecting massive amounts of paper and electronic files from many locations requires expert orchestration skills, said Craig LeClair, senior analyst at Forrester Research. In a large project with many moving parts, a critical factor will be OPM’s ability to stage transitions and avoid “big bang” cutovers often associated with failed projects, LeClair said. “It is critical to have a road map. ”OPM officials say they established development and transition plans for RSM and hired three contractors — Hewitt Associates, Accenture and Northrop Grumman’s Integic — to help the agency implement those plans. On a tactical level, the logical place to begin was at the federal records facility in Pennsylvania, O’Keefe said. “We start at the ROC with employees that we have on file,” he said…
“Sometimes officials in different agencies have made notes in the margins of paper records or have not completely filled in all of the dates and other fields. There are a variety of things that must be done to make sure the records are accurate, and sometimes that slows the process. ” Another aspect of the modernization effort requires tracking the employee documents that are now entering the new system, said David Barley, chief technology officer at Casdex, a data storage company that has done similar work for companies such as Ford and Cisco Systems. “Tagging and identification is a largely manual task and is reliant on human intervention,” Barley said. Organizing the data into meaningful structures is also crucial, he added. Scanning, conversion and data centralization are major components of RSM. However, the most significant value of the program will be the retirement information it will give federal employees and retirement benefits officers.