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February 12th SNUGNE Meeting Details

Date: Tuesday, February 12th, Microsoft Waltham

Topic: Archiving a Business Imperative

Overview: Why is Business Archive Management important? Effective Business Archive Management is critical for organizations today. It helps reduce business and legal risks, lower costs through storage optimization, and create incremental business value.

Improved corporate governance reduces risks: There are thousands of regulations impacting how business information must be stored, accessed, and maintained. Failure to comply can result in significant fines and/or harsh regulatory sanctions. Organizations can minimize risks by implementing strong business processes for archiving that are linked to larger corporate governance requirements.

Efficient use of corporate assets lowers costs: Double-digit data growth and longer retention requirements are fundamentally changing the way information assets are managed and archived. It is no longer practical or cost-effective to keep fixed content on primary storage devices. A strong archiving business process optimizes storage resources and improves access to information.

Reusing archived information creates incremental business value: Most companies today are searching for ways to increase revenue, decrease costs, and improve customer relationships. And growth often involves reusing archived data. For example, entertainment companies have created new revenue streams by reselling archived motion picture footage.

Speaker: Kevin Dennehy, Senior Systems Engineer, Plasmon LMS

Speaker Bio: Kevin Dennehy has been in the computer operations field for over 25 years.  Much of this time was spent at Merrill Lynch and Kidder Peabody brokerage firms managing data center operations and infrastructure.  For the last 6 years, Kevin was a Senior Systems Engineer for FileTech focused on designing archiving technologies creating over $10M in savings for FileTech clients.  Kevin recently joined Plasmon LMS whom for over 22 years has been the trusted source for professional archive solutions with demanding commercial and public sector organizations worldwide.