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The interesting thing about archiving and long-term-storage is the fact that we are not capable of correlating long-term thinking with our day to day business.

Remember: each day we see the effects of Moore’s Law: storage becomes dead cheap, CPU power becomes immense, bandwidth and online access becomes ubiquitous. Each year. No exception.

And now we think about long-term storage. Hey folks, this isn’t two years time span here. Our customers are talking about 10-50 years. And of course, we all assure them that their data is safe for this time and that in 50 years they can still read it.

Sheer folly. Nobody knows what will be in 50 years and whether storage then will have any similarity to today. Essentially, we can only say that we do our best to ensure that their data will survive all evolutions and revolutions in between, and that in 50 years, their implanted data processor will render some kind of representation of todays document to their retina. As I said: do our best.

Let’s look at some areas which come to mind, where this problem hit’s home and people offer solutions which frankly spoken will be obsolete within the decade: (more…)

Usually, I am pretty positive about a bunch of people meeting up and deciding about how to make the (software) world a better place. Particularly if this bunch includes me! I was devastated though, to be part of the DLM Forum’s spring meeting this year. Not only did I see my concerns about the future of MoReq2 confirmed, but I had to learn that now we have another bunch of people who are working to make MoReq2010 the RM standard that could (or would, or should? Whatever.). Now, this in itself is not news anymore, as others have brokered information like this to the general public much sooner.

The (comparatively new) news is that the new standard will -of course- be incompatible with the old one: (more…)

The world fifth largest company HITACHI, which is also one of the ten largest IT companies has organized a conference of its Data Storage devision in Poland. More than 140 people from 40 organizations has joined the conference. SAPERION participated as one of the main sponsors and presented its new version SAPERION V6 with the new JAVA architecture.

Also SAPERION presented its iniatives in the Business Intelligence sector by intergrating into QlikView and SAP Business Objects. The audience were IT and business decision makers from various industries. HITACHI presented its highend sophisticated HCAP solution which allows a central data storage and cloud functionality. HCAP is supporting several connectivity standard (e.g. HTTP, NAS) for storing highend volume of data. Big installations like city archive of Amsterdam is storing several Petabytes of data in HITACHI storages. SAPERION support all HITACHI highend devices and had already several succesful projects delivered together.

SAPERION continous its expansion in eastern Europe after receicing a lot of success in Russia and Baltic states. More than 100 customers across all industries in east Europe are trusting already SAPERION. Companies like Gazprom , SUEK, BP Russia, Rostelecom, Bite and PZU Lithuania are some of them which have chosen SAPERION to manage and process all their content company wide.