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According to a document management study that was commissioned by Iron Mountain, UK firms are more likely to trust others with the task of records management than German and French firms. Interestingly, most firms decide to keep active records stored on-site. Is our information safe?

The Open Text — SharePoint saga continues, as the Enterprise CMS vendor announces new Open Text Storage Services for SharePoint.

This new service lets customers store Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 content in external storage devices, reducing wasted space by automatically detecting multiple instances of the same content.

Nexsan, a storage solutions provider, has announced Assureon 6.0, the latest version of an energy-efficient and long-term storage solution.

This is the first green archive-as-a-service solution for the storage industry, and it will allow users to easily manage secure and efficient archives. Corporations interested in an external archive-as-a-service model might be interested in Nexsan’s offerings.

Caringo Inc., a vendor of content storage software, has recently announced the release of an interface that will allow Alfresco, a provider of open source content management software, and CAStor, Caringo’s flagship storage product, to operate seamlessly.

This interface replaces the existing file-system based storage of Alfresco and utilizes CAStor instead. Users now will be able to distribute data to CAStor without putting in additional effort.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a provider of Internet data storage and delivery services, is planning to release an unnamed content delivery service that will likely undercut the existing Content Delivery Network (CDN) competition to provide customers with faster and cheaper digital content delivery options.

Isilon Systems, a hardware and software enterprise storage provider, has completed integrations between its Isilon IQ and NFS Maestro by Hummingbird, a subsidiary of Open Text, to improve access and delivery of file-based critical business information.

This solution will benefit enterprises running on Microsoft Windows by providing a faster and more secure Network File System (NFS) protocol for data access.

The EMC World 2008 event just wrapped up in wholesome Las Vegas and the content management industry eyes were ogling both the table top dancers and the (not so?) seductive CM story EMC was peddling.

JustSystems is hosting a complimentary webinar called “Fast-track Single Sourcing: The Road to DITA Success,” part of its XML Advisor Webinar series.

The event takes place on Thursday, 25 October at 1 PM Eastern. Attendees will learn how to build a business case for the Darwin Information Type Architecture (DITA), currently the standard for XML-based and single-source (a.k.a. component) content management.

You’ll also learn how to define topic templates, conditional text and metadata; considerations for specialization and training end users; and how to customize DITA output or create a tool checklist.

Lots of handy-dandy stuff. Register here.

Who doesn’t love AJAX? It alters a site’s content without users having to reload. It’s rendered the pageview virtually worthless, inspiring Nielsen/BuzzMetrics to pursue a time-based site tracking model for calculating the popularity of sites. And in many ways, its availability is one manner of gauging the hip-with-it-ness of a site.

As with any snazzy and hype-ridden new technology, there is reason to take caution.

Even virtual worlds have storage issues. Enterprise virtualization purveyor XenSource has just signed an agreement with Symantec to embed Veritas Storage Foundation into XenEnterpriseTM, bringing HA/DR and backup technology to the customers XenSource serves.

This unity is the first we’ve seen between a leading storage virtualization software and a leading open source hypervisor.

Deviating a moment from its mobile endeavors, the prolific Sun Microsystems took the time out of its busy year to release StorageTek 9990V, an enterprise storage system that boasts storage virtualization and thin provisioning features.

Three isn’t an especially big number. But when you’ve spent EU€ 3 million on an idea that’s taken three years to develop, the suddenly takes on a formidable quality.

Thus invested in time and money, Bridgedoc, formerly ScanData, just announced the global launch of its online paperless records management offering.

To celebrate its one year anniversary, the EMC CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale re-establishes its commitment to delivering the highest levels of availability for midrange storage arrays, shipping over 10,000 systems in the last 12 months.

That’s a lot of CLARiiON.

San Diego based Streamload provides the storage space and Taiwan’s Cyberlink provides the software. A match made in heaven for producing, storing and sharing videos on the web?

Affino NX eBusiness Suite, a fully integrated content Management system for SME’s that includes Affino encompasses eCommerce, Content Management, Net TV, eCommunity, Digital Asset Management, ePromotions, eServices, Online Directories and SEO Automation has been launched.