In recent years the growing amount of legislation affecting data retention and records management has placed an enormous burden on IT. As part of a broader compliance framework, there's a tremendously ...

Classify data on Windows Servers and use automated storage location and retention policies to comply with business and regulatory requirements. While many businesses work with SharePoint Server to ...

Remember WinFS – Windows Future Storage? Once upon a time, this was a planned radical enhancement to the Windows file system that was going to be part of Vista. It turned out to be far too ambitious, ...

For all the time that storage managers spend worrying about safeguarding their organization's data, many of them know little about the objects of their obsession. They usually know how much total data ...

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. Yuval Eldar of Secure Islands Technologies can relate to his customers’ needs. Before starting up ...

Classification is the process of systematically organizing information to improve managing, storing, and accessing information overtime. A classification plan is a tool that departments can create to ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

The Windows File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) is new to the first release candidate of Windows Server 2008 R2, which was made available last month and is due to be released in October. FCI is a ...