ABSTRACT:

All information owning and administrating stakeholders in the datacenter have a need to communicate with each other regarding setting the business requirements for the information assets the organization has to manage. Yet, this can be hard because each department has a different vernacular that has to be bridged to even begin. Through publishing "Building a Terminology Bridge: Guidelines for Digital Information Retention and Preservation Practices in the Datacenter," Michael Peterson and the SNIA's Data Management Forum have provided a "Rosetta Stone" for the datacenter that will empower communication and collaborative efforts.

Here are some typical uses for this valuable report that will help your organization:

  1. •If your organization is operating an information governance-style committee or developing service management practices and needs to develop business requirements for information assets then you need to have a common terminology and understanding of retention and preservation practices among all stakeholders

  2. •If your organization needs to better understand retention and preservation principles and have a common terminology that spans internal and external needs

  3. •If your organization is dealing with eDiscovery, litigation holds, reducing risk and exposure, trying to classify information, regulatory compliance, and/or long-term preservation, you need a tool to guide practices and help develop a common understanding of their roles in the datacenter




Building a Terminology Bridge: Guidelines for Retention and Preservation Practices in the Datacenter

As principle author, I developed, researched, wrote, and shepherded this report through 2 years of intense review within the SNIA and correlated it with a number of external alliance organizations.   It is a strategic view of the terminology of retention and preservation in the datacenter and full of best practices jewels that make it mandatory reading for any information governance and risk management practice.


An associated white paper titled “Need for a Terminology-Bridge” explains how collaborative communication in an information-centric management perspective can help you make the right decisions for your organization.


-- Michael Peterson