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A Data Archiving Checklist
In his blog “Think ‘Data Management,’ Not Just ‘Data Protection,’” Data Protection Analyst Jason Buffington provides sound advice to IT organizations whose primary storage is growing around 40% annually but whose IT budgets aren’t. That advice is to archive data. Buffington defines archiving this way: “Archiving is the intentional retention
Eaton Vance Selected as a 2015 WfMC Award Winner
Flatirons congratulates its client Eaton Vance—one of the oldest and most trusted investment management firms in the U.S.—on its recognition as the winner of the 2015 Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) Global Awards for Excellence in Case Management for its new accounts processing solution. Flatirons helped Eaton Vance improve its new
Application Decommissioning in Financial Services – Part Two
As part of our lo at Application Decommissioning in Financial Services, we’re now going to turn our attention to the highly regulated world of credit card processing. Keeping Up with Data Retention and Compliance Policies Along with Dodd-Frank and other financial regulations, credit card processors are subject to strict PCI
Planning for Retirement. The World According to IT… and Me!
This blog post originally appeared as an article in the June/July 2015 issue of the AircraftIT MRO eJournal. At the recent Air & Aerospace MRO & Operations IT Conference in London, I asked how many of the attendees to my presentation had an active application retirement program running within their
Is Microsoft cool now? The World according to IT… and Me!
This blog post originally appeared as an article in the June/July 2015 issue of the AircraftIT Ops eJournal. So, is Microsoft cool now? This is hardly a question on everyone’s lips, but it’s something that I’ve been asking myself lately. Some of their recent developments and activities have made