TechTarget News Roundup -- March 3, 2006

SearchDataManagement.com:
Strategy, skills keys for CDI-MDM success
http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid91_gci1170576,00.html The chairman of a new CDI-MDM summit told attendees to protect their people, shrewdly evaluate commercial offerings and avoid “repaving the cow path.”

SearchSMB.com:
Shop Talk: SaaS vs. open source – what SMBs should know
http://searchsmb.techtarget.com/columnItem/0,294698,sid44_gci1170313,00.html
How big is your wallet? How high is your tolerance for complexity? These are just two of many actors to consider before you choose between open source or Software as a Service.

SearchStorage.com:
Louisiana firm braces for more with better DR
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1170601,00.html
Jones Walker Law is hoping to apply to its current DR plan what it learned last year when hurricanes forced it to change its replication process on the fly.

Napa Valley winery converts to e-mail archive
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1170607,00.html
Vendors are hyping e-mail, but as with Foster's Wines, it often takes a big restoration failure before an archive is considered -- and it might not get implemented right away.