About Us

System Infrastructure Innovators

Providing a new, innovative, server and application migration methodology, that can significantly reduce the cost of migration. Providing leadership and expertise in helping clients evaluate their Data Loss Prevention and Business Continuity readiness. Developing DR and BCP design and implementation plans that match the specific needs of their business and the capabilities of their IT infrastructure. Creating partnerships with collocation facilities to provide these services to their clients. Partnering with migration tool vendors. Creating these partnerships relieves the client of having to negotiate multiple contracts to implement a migration project.

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Our Patents

In April, 2002, EMC announced Centera to help securities broker/dealers comply with SEC regulation 17a-4. Prior to this, the only media that satisfied this regulation was microfilm, microfiche, or optical disks. The reason for this limitation is that the regulators wanted to ensure that the client records could not be changed or erased while the client had an account open, AND for six years after their account was closed. When EMC introduced Centera, the regulation was changed to include electronic storage media. The regulation stated:

240.17a-4(f)(2)(ii) The electronic storage media must: 
     (A) Preserve the records exclusively in a non-rewriteable, non-erasable format; 

We were asked to lead the IBM team to develop a response to EMC’s Centera. We did and introduced the IBM Data Retention 450, 550, and the IBM Information Archive. In doing so, we realized that in EMC’s rush to market, their device only provided chronological retention. That is, you could only preserve a record for a specific period of time. However, in our research, we realized that this did not even meet the SEC’s retention requirements, let alone the requirements of many other financial and insurance products. We came up with the idea of event based retention as well as legal holds for these kinds of records and received the patents for these concepts. It answers the question, how would you know how long a client of a broker was going to keep their account open? What retention period would you put on those records? For our predecessor, they would have to pick some number of years, and if it was longer, remember to add more time at the end of that retention period. If it was shorter, someone would then have to compute the difference between the time remaining on the original retention period and the 6 year SEC requirement. With the IBM Patented technology, you would set a retention period of an account closing event + 6 years. Below are the Patents that are in my name via the company I worked for. Since then, Google has bought some of the IBM patents.
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