http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/continuity/features/article.php/3673581

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In a panel session, records information managers and storage managers
offered their perspectives on the lifecycle of managing information. Records
information managers (called "RIMs" and virtually unknown to the majority of
IT personnel in attendance) see ILM as a focus on the record from cradle to
grave, from its creation, receipt of information, use and maintenance
through its disposition. IT managers define ILM as the way records are taken
and accessed to determine what type of media to place them on.

Attendees sought specific answers on questions such as when to archive
information, how to improve information integrity, and how to manage growing
e-mail requirements. They wanted to know how to determine what information
is a record, how to manage records created to answer business requests for
information, which records need protection, and what technologies should be
used to access, store and retrieve records.

Panelists agreed that finding their RIM peer in the organization should be a
top priority for every IT manager. Introductory conversations can then morph
into cross-team discussions that lead to a better understanding of the roles
of each, and creation of practical information on reaching the best merger
of technology and information protection and dissemination.
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Imagine this, after 4 years of trying to hammer home the point that
management of information over it's life cycle is something that we've been
doing for decades, "....panelists agree that finding the RIM peer in an
organization should be a top priority for IT managers" !!!

The visual I'm getting here is the scene from the Blues Brothers, where
Reverend Cleophus James (aka James Brown) is at the pulpit in the Triple
Rock Baptist Church, and the ray of sunlight comes down from the Heavens,
piercing the dark clouds and penetrating the church steeple through the
stained glass and lands squarely on Jake Blues (aka John Belushi) and the
Reverend screams out to him "Do you see the light?  CAN YOU SEE THE LIGHT?"
as the chorus sings "Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hal-le-lu-JAH!!!!"

Larry

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Larry Medina
Danville, CA
RIM Professional since 1972

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