Posts Tagged ‘information management’

The acquisition of Mimosa Systems by Iron Mountain last February was a big piece of the puzzle in Iron Mountains’ digital strategy –  dubbed Digital 2.0.   This acquisition also brought changes for me personally.  In my new role at Iron Mountain I am going to focus on evangelizing the Digital 2.0 vision and product set, a task that I’m both exited about and also don’t underestimate.  For quite a few people, Iron Mountain is the company that moves those boxes in trucks they see driving around. You see them in New York, London and Amsterdam, etc.  For many though, it has largely gone unnoticed that Iron Mountain has been building up a major set of digital offerings for customers, from online backup of PCs and Servers to digital archiving and even technology escrow management.

The last few days I’ve been in the Boston area with my fellow Mimosa Systems blogger Bill Tolson visiting and talking to our new coworkers are Iron Mountain.  I’m very excited about what is coming in the future for us and our customers.   Iron Mountain isn’t just one of the largest trucking company around (3200 trucks) and stores 600 million boxes with an average of 1,200 files each.   On the digital side there are also some impressive offerings and features.

First let me explain what BLOB stands for.  A Binary Large OBject is a collection of binary data that is stored as a single ‘file’ inside a database.  Within SharePoint these are your office documents, images, audio and video files.   While I have no doubts in the overall scalability of SharePoint, the product has some points that all SharePoint administrators and designers need to be aware off.  Microsoft is so kind to publish extensive documents that go over the software boundaries of SharePoint.  The following table lists the recommended guidelines for site objects according to Microsoft:

In choosing an archiving solution for SharePoint, it is important to ask these questions:

In honor of Sys admin Day my post today is a little bit more technical and I want to go over the scalability of a SharePoint Farm deployment.

Microsoft actually has done a good job with making the scalability limits available for SharePoint, which is important seeing the growth SharePoint is going through. 

Lets continue with the PST elimination blog series.

I attended the ACC (Association of Corporate Counsel) trade show in Seattle this week. What’s clear to me more than ever is that we are still in an extremely immature market phase for eDiscovery.

First of all, there is a clear disconnect between legal folks, records and information management folks, and IT. Why else would the biggest records management show of the year (ARMA) in Las Vegas take place the same week as the ACC show?