ESI and IT Compliance

The volume and complexity of ESI presents enormous challenges for corporate legal departments and the IT and compliance functions that support them, especially considering additional constraints imposed by the changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The volume of e-mail and e-mail attachments alone—favorite targets of eDiscovery requests—is staggering.

Large organizations routinely generate millions of e-mails per day. As a result, there is tremendous pressure to identify, collect, and review huge amounts of ESI and still produce it under tight timelines. In addition, corporations walk a fine line between the obligation to produce all relevant data while meeting production and response deadlines on the one hand, and, on the other, securing personal and highly sensitive information, which may be privileged or otherwise protected.

 For example, privacy legislation such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act requires corporate and government institutions to prevent unauthorized access to non-public personalinformation such as:

• A consumer’s name, address, social security number and account number
• Information a consumer provides on an application
•  The fact that an individual is a customer of a particular financial institution

 Likewise, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Privacy

Rule establishes regulations for the use and disclosure of protected health information

(PHI), This protection extends to written, oral, faxed and electronically stored information. In addition, a specific security rule deals with electronic protected health information (ePHI), which is any PHI that is created, stored, transmitted or received electronically. The act’s security requirements are a minimum standard and place high responsibility on covered entities to take all reasonable precautions necessary to prevent PHI from being used for nonhealth purposes.

The increased regulatory demands imply that more time and caution need to be taken during the review process, but production deadlines have not been adjusted. Resulting time pressures increase the risk of producing far more than is prudent and giving away privileged documents—even the proverbial “smoking gun.” You can resort to ediscovery solution or ediscovery companies to learn more.

Hair Color Trends for 2009

Blonde is always hot. Blonde is chic and glam. Blonde is too multifaceted a color to make you look plain and like everyone else around. There can never be two identical blondes. Especially in 2009. Natural blonde is hot this year. When you want to make it fancy, add rich highlights and lowlights, play with the contrast and shades of color.

Blonde is always hot. Blonde is chic and glam. Blonde is too multifaceted a color to make you look plain and like everyone else around. There can never be two identical blondes. Especially in 2009. Natural blonde is hot this year. When you want to make it fancy, add rich highlights and lowlights, play with the contrast and shades of color.

Always in vogue, brunette will get simple in 2009. Make sure you have your brunette hair look as natural as possible. 2009 is not about black, bright or stripy highlights, sorry. Think the classic brunette shade. However, absence of highlights doesn’t mean you can’t improve the color by adding darker shades to make it look deep and carefully groomed.

If you think you want something darker than just brunette but not as deep as ebony then your perfect choice is dark brown. Think chocolate. Like the color? Being hot in 2009, dark brown can make you look really beautiful, and what’s important, it’s good for almost any complexion.

This hair color is very strong in 2009. If you have a fair skin, you’re sure to look vamp. But be careful with makeup and outfits you wear in order not to look glum and tired. Generally, black is what you need to impress and turn heads anywhere you go!

Get your color, think about you style, and get your perfect look in 2009! Remember you’re beautiful, hot and head-to-toe perfect! As for hair color, you can always change it if you want. Hair color is just another accessory you have, make sure you wear it right!

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Be Flexible to Remain on Top

Better, faster, cheaper continues to be the mantra of a demanding marketplace and even the shortest product lifecycles continue to shrink. Couple these challenges with dramatic seasonal cycles of expansion and contraction (hockey stick) and you have just a few realities of the Technology sector. What is new on the horizon only appears to add risk to an already complex supply chain challenge. Things like protecting your IP (intellectual property) from being compromised in global regions that take a lax view of patent protection and dealing with the new reality that the spiraling cost of oil means that freight costs can no longer be buried into a purchase price. And do not forget all the new compliancy laws for manufacturing and legal disposition of electronic equipment (i.e. RoHS and WEEE.)

Unique challenges:

• Short product lifecycles
• Dramatic forecast fluctuations
• Variable demand (expansion and contraction)
• Seasonality/hockey stick
• Compliance laws

All of this increased risk requires flexibility from technology companies to remain competitive. To achieve this one needs a standardized and documented world-class supply chain processes, technology and functional methodologies with good experience  of providing cutting-edge supply chain services.  Contact a supply chain solutions or a supply chain consulting company.

Replication for Corporates

It’s inevitable that all companies prepare reports and other publications at various times throughout the year. Whether they’re monthly, quarterly, or annually, these reports typically require the generation of a great deal of data. At the same time, the United States has recently instituted more stringent reporting policies for public companies, and the European Union is following suit.

Loss of critical data could mean fiscal, corporate-wide, and even personal disaster if it causes missed reporting deadlines. Your organization must plan how it will recover in time from a possible disaster to meet these deadlines.

Replication or SQL server replication is a great option to ensure little or no data loss occurs during a hardware system disaster. Hardware-based solutions protect against data loss, but this protection comes at a price.

However this protection comes at a price. That price means both a higher cost than most solutions as well as a performance impact on the production systems due to the “two-phase commit” method of data protection that nearly all hardware-based replication tools use.

Software-based replication (also called host-based), exchange replication, exchange server replication is another option. At a lower cost and generally without a performance impact, these tools replicate at either the block- or byte-level using an asynchronous methodology.

If replication is too expensive, snapshot technologies are another option. Available choices include hardware-based solutions from your current vendors or software-based solutions from Microsoft and many third parties (depending on your operating system).

Snapshot technologies allow you to independently take point-in-time copies of data on a set schedule or on demand. While this method is still not as effective as replication, it allows you to rescue a much larger portion of your data after a disaster than a once-per-day tape backup alone.

No matter what combination of solutions you choose, preparing to recover on a moment’s notice during reporting periods is a vital part of modern business. Data loss isn’t a good reason to miss reporting deadlines, and your organization could even incur stiff penalties and other repercussions for skipping reports.

Tips to choose a Good Family Camping Tent

Tents are any day popular shelter for camping. However choosing one is not an easy task. One might easily get lost amidst the various options available. Research well, before you buy one. Shopping questions to  shopping assistants  will help you with your research.

There are a number of factors to look at when you start your research. First, find out the actual weight and size of the tent when it is packed up. This factor comes into play if you plan on hiking to your campsite. The last thing you want to do is buy a heavy tent and have to haul it for a long distance. Remember, you will have more than your tent to carry so weight is important. If you are planning on hiking for most of your outdoor adventures, you might want to look for an ultra-light tent. These tents are designed to be as light as possible and take up very little space in your pack.

Second, find out the floor space size and peak height of the tent. Both of these statistics are important on making the right choice. By checking the floor space you will make sure you will actually fit in the tent when you lay down. This factor is especially valuable if you are tall and don’t want to have your feet sticking out the end of the tent. The next factor is the peak height, which is the highest point in the tent. If you want some head room in the tent you will want to compare tents by this factor

Third, choose a tent that is a little bigger than your need. Also decide on how many rooms you need. There are multiple room tents.

Finally, try to determine how much you want to spend on your tent before you hit the store. Remember cheaper ones are not sturdy. It’s a onetime buy and is worth shelling out some bucks. Also factors like how many times you plan on going camping each year, needs to be considered. If you are only camping once or twice each year you might be able to get away with a cheaper tent. But if you plan on using the tent multiple times each year, you will want to invest in a quality tent.

Hype Cycle 2009 by Gartner

Gartner maintains a series of well-followed reports, called Hype Cycles. The Social Software Hype Cycle highlights the most important technologies that support rich social interactions.
Here are the five stages of the hype cycle:

• Technology Trigger: The first phase of a Hype Cycle is the “technology trigger” or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest. A “technology trigger” is breakthrough, public demonstration, product launch or other event generates significant press and industry interest.
• Peak of Inflated Expectations: In the next phase, a frenzy of publicity typically generates over-enthusiasm and unrealistic expectations. There may be some successful applications of a technology, but there are typically more failures.
• Trough of Disillusionment: Technologies enter the “trough of disillusionment” because they fail to meet expectations and quickly become unfashionable. Consequently, the press usually abandons the topic and the technology.
• Slope of Enlightenment: Although the press may have stopped covering the technology, some businesses continue through the “slope of enlightenment” and experiment to understand the benefits and practical application of the technology.
• Plateau of Productivity: A technology reaches the “plateau of productivity” as the benefits of it become widely demonstrated and accepted. The technology becomes increasingly stable and evolves in second and third generations.

Innovation Management, Prediction management, idea management, social networking et al. are some of the technologies included.

On July 24, 2009, Gartner released its Social Software Hype Cycle, 2009. The report includes quite a number of technologies under the social software umbrella

Healthcare and Transformational Outsourcing

Health organizations face the challenge of providing better service to a more discerning public, but without increasing costs. One solution is to optimize technology to enable more streamlined and automated business processes. Smart organizations are now outsourcing both technology and overlying business processes, freeing up their own specialized staff to concentrate on core business.

To achieve high performance through outsourcing, health providers are treating outsourcing not simply as a cost-cutting exercise, but rather as a means to access the deep industry and business knowledge that an experienced outsourcing partner like Accenture can bring.

A good transformational outsourcing for healthcare goes beyond the traditional focus on applications maintenance and infrastructure support to help improve health companies’ supply chains, revenue cycles, human resources and care management processes—as well as facilitating new business initiatives, upgrading technical capabilities and integrating existing systems. Contact a transformational outsourcing company, application outsourcing or business process outsourcing services company for more info.

World’s Largest Vending Machine

Check out the World’s Larget Vending machies. I think its in Barcelona? Anyone has any clues about it?

You can try industrial vending or tool vending.

Buy the Right Teething Ring for you Baby

Teething is certainly a painful process for your baby. When a baby begins teething, there is no set pattern on when it will begin, how long it will take and how painful it will be. However you can ease out your babies pain by helping him. Try giving him Teething rings, water filled and chilled rubber teething toys; mom and dad’s fingers can all provide counter pressure that can sometimes bring relief. Offering your baby a cold bottle of water can also help. If sucking on the bottle bothers your child, offer a cold cup of water. The water can also help replenish your baby’s fluid if they’re drooling a lot or have loose bowel movements.
Today there are many different types of teething rings available. Thankfully, they are free of lead! In fact, all rings bought in most western countries are nontoxic, so you can rest assured that no matter what kind you buy, it will be safe for your baby. Some are made of firm rubber (with or without bumps); others are filled with water and made to be chilled in the refrigerator. Don’t freeze these types of rings or teethers because they become too hard and may harm your baby’s gums. For those of you who consider your self as upper-crust (only kidding), you can buy silver teething rings. These can also be chilled in the fridge.
Clean teething rings, teethers, and toys after each use. Check the package label to see if the object is dishwasher-safe. It is highly recommended that after you clean your child’s teething ring, you place it in a bottle sterilizer. Don’t boil water-filled teethers because they may break open.
Never tie an object such as a teething ring or pacifier around your baby’s neck. The cord could tighten and choke the baby or, at the very least, irritate his or her skin.
Check out for safe baby toys and baby apparels.

The right car safety seat for your infant

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that all infants should ride rear-facing starting with their first ride home from the hospital. They should remain rear-facing until they reach the highest weight or height allowed by their car safety seat’s manufacturer. At a minimum, children should ride rear-facing until they have reached at least 1 year of age and weigh at least 20 pounds.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that all infants should ride rear-facing starting with their first ride home from the hospital. They should remain rear-facing until they reach the highest weight or height allowed by their car safety seat’s manufacturer. At a minimum, children should ride rear-facing until they have reached at least 1 year of age and weigh at least 20 pounds.
There are 2 types of rear-facing car safety seats: infant-only seats and convertible seats.

Infant-only seats
• Are small and have carrying handles (and sometimes come as part of a stroller system).
• Are used only for travel (not for positioning outside the vehicle).
• Are used for infants up to 22 to 32 pounds, depending on the model.
• Many come with a base that can be left in the car. The seat clicks into and out of the base so you don’t have to install the base each time you use it. Parents can buy more than one base for additional vehicles.
Convertible seats (used rear-facing)
• Can be used rear-facing, then “converted” to forward-facing for older children. This means the seat can be used longer by your child. They are bulkier than infant seats, however, and do not come with carrying handles or a separate base.
• Have higher rear-facing weight and height limits than infant-only seats, which make them ideal for bigger babies.
If you have any more queries about infant car seat you can ask shopping questions to shopping guide.