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By bfwebster on Mar 1, 2011 in Lawsuits, Main, Risk management, Technology | 0 Comments
OK, just last week I wrote a post on a report out of UCSD regarding difficulties in erasing data from solid-state disks (SSDs). But now out of Australia comes a somewhat contradictory report that some SSDs actually erase ‘slack’ (unused) space themselves without any user or system intervention — and, furthermore, that they can do [...]
By bfwebster on Feb 24, 2011 in Lawsuits, Main, Risk management, Technology | 1 Comment
E-discovery — the recovery, analysis, and production of evidence stored in digital form on various media — has become a major issue in litigation because of how much data simple devices can hold and the resulting duplication and multiplication of documents, files, and other digital types of evidence. Because of the risks and costs of [...]
By bfwebster on Dec 28, 2009 in IT project disputes, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Pitfalls, Risk management, Surviving Complexity | 1 Comment
[cross-posted from brucefwebster.com] Roger Sessions has published a white paper, “The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity” (PDF). It’s created a bit of a stir in tech circles, largely because Sessions estimates that “worldwide, we are already losing over USD 500 billion per month on IT failure, and the problem is getting worse” (page 1; [...]
By bfwebster on Oct 18, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, IT Project Management, Main, Risk management | 0 Comments
First, my apologies for the slow posting here and at brucefwebster.com over the past few months. It’s pretty bad when my last two posts have each covered my last two Baseline columns. But I’ve got some new material to start posting here as well, and will do so. In the meantime, I have two new [...]