Stories by Briony Smith

Compliance leaders struggle to change user habits

A panel discussion on enterprise content management for compliance at IBM's Information on Demand conference this week showed that, while many businesses are still struggling to get their e-mail systems and document management systems under control, they are also making some decent headway into becoming compliance-ready.

Put a stop to bloated backups

You never know when trouble may hit -- a freak thunderstorm could take out your data center, or a hacker might infiltrate your infrastructure. The enterprise has caught on to the importance of backing up data, but when do you stop? With storage capacity growing at around 50 percent per year, it's important to safeguard your data, but at what point does the cautious Cassandra become the overly nervous Nelly?