COMPUTING
owards computing on demand. Information age: Business briefing, No. 35
The revolutionary model for delivering IT as a utility. Covers computing in the utilities—architectures, networking, software, on-demand, suppliers, contact details, reports and white papers.

COPIERS
In the news: Konica and Minolta announce merger. Business info, No.45, January/February, 2003. p.33
Konica and Minolta announced they were joining forces just as Konica brought out its first colour engine.

DATA CAPTURE
TYLER, Dave. A grain of truth. DMmagazine, January/February, 2003. pp.27-9.
According to IDC research, the inability to find information costs a company with 1,000 ‘knowledge workers’ $6 million a year. No wonder that the document management industry wants to solve the problem of capturing semi- and unstructured data.

DIGITISATION
O’NEILL, Shane. Digital object identifiers and persistent identifiers. Managing information, January/February, 2003. pp.44-5.
Explains what digital object identifiers (DOI) are, how they relate to URLs, organising DOIs and The Stationery office’s role as a registration agent for DOIs.

DOCUMENT DELIVERY
WHITELEGG, Peter. Special delivery. DMmagazine, January/February, 2003. pp.19-20.
Cheshire-based haulage company R.F. Fielding has seen significant customer service improvements from automating document management.

DOCUMENT PROCESSING
COBB, Adrian. Rising to the challenge. DM magazine, January/February, 2003. pp.16-18.
Results of Tower Technology’s research into the insurance market, conducted to gain an insight into insurers’ opinions on critical challenges facing their industry over the next twelve months. The results are interesting for all those involved in automated document processing.

E-GOVERNMENT
GARROD, Penny. A tour round local e-government, interoperability and the role of the public library. Managing information, January/February, 2003. pp.40-2.
For those who work in local government, e-government and Electronic Service Delivery (ESD) are likely to be high on the agenda for the next couple of years.

FAX
Future of fax. Business info, No.45, January/February, 2003. p24.
The fax market is in transition as Panasonic celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Panafax brand.

INTERNET
196 brilliant site building ideas. Internet magazine, April, 2003. pp. 24-35.
Hints and tips on setting up a computer for Internet access, website design and development, search optimisation, usability, plain English andlegal matters.

MICROFILM
Nexxray: the next way to store X-rays. The green sheet, January, 2003. p. 14.
Looks at capturing X-rays on 35mm microfilm with full greyscale.

MULTIFUNTIONAL MACHINES
Wanting it all. Business info, No.45, January/February, 2003. p.30.
Demand for colour inject all-in-ones, largely due to convenience and space saving, continues to grow even though there may be more economical alternatives when the running costs are taken into consideration.

PRINTERS
FORDHAM, Eric. Pro quality print for smaller businesses. Business equipment digest, February, 2003. p.30
For small business read smart business, say Hewlett-Packard who have introduced two new inkjet printers and a small desktop entry level laser printer at consumer prices but professional technology.

MARTIN, Emilie. Life in the fast lane. Personal computer world, April, 2003. pp.177-90.
Comparisons and ‘best buys’, with speed in mind, from eight of the best mono laser printers costing under £300.

RECORDS MANAGEMENT
ASPINALL, David. Changing role of records management: 5. The green sheet, January, 2003. pp.12-13.
Looks at effective strategies for designing records management solutions. Covers approaches to policy, design, implementation and standards.

ELKINS, Dona. EDCO sees optimistic long-term outlook for US healthcare industry. The green sheet, January, 2003. pp.16-17.
Explores what is happening in the big business of US healthcare records. Healthcare records are different from most business records in that they have to be kept for much longer; there has been a dramatic shift towards imaging but conversion from paper and microfilm to digital involves careful indexing and all systems should be ‘forwards compatible’.

Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust deploy DocFinity solution to manage electronic patient records. The green sheet, January, 2003. p.18.
Case study about the implementation of an electronic patients records imaging system, DocFinity, from Optical Image Technology (OIT) explaining the procedures and processes.

STORAGE
Backup: moving forward? Storage Magazine, February, 2003. pp.20-3.
A year or two ago the backup vendors thought they has the backup market taped but now the backup market is changing and backup products are developing in response to this.

COMPTON, Jason. Strorage: caught between a rack and a hard drive. Computing, 27 February, 2003. pp.27-8.
Looks at the technologies on offer to free space on the desktop: magnetic, optical, zip, hard drive, removable, etc.

COX, Lee. The secrets of successful storage. Business info, No.45, January/February, 2003. pp.15-16.
Explains what to look for when choosing a storage solution or vendor.

FORDHAM, Eric. High performance data storage meet big demands. Business equipment digest, February, 2003. p.36.
Networks and Internet traffic have put new demands on data storage resources but technology developments will allow even small businesses and users to rely on the hard drive as well as the latest optical solutions.

HOARE, Matthew. Think of the bigger picture. Storage magazine, February, 2003. pp.26-7.
Electronic document management (EDM) consumes more and more storage. SAN, RAID, tape and magneto-optical storage all have their roles in the EDM storage mix. Consolidaton of RAID onto SANs is being advocated by Headway Technology.

HOARE, Matthew. Trouble in store? DMmagazine, January/February, 2003. pp.12-15.
Examines the issues arising from the continuing growth in the storage and display markets as a result of document management implementations.

KUNERT, Paul. Use what you’ve got. Computer weekly, 13 February, 2003. p.44.
Hewlett-Packard is changing its focus. Instead of pushing out more storage capacity, the supplier is helping users to squeeze better value from the capacity they already have.

PAYNE, Phil. Want to see the future of storage? Look at Linux. Computer weekly, 13 February, 2003. pp.32.
Fashion can deceive but backing Linux is looking a cosy fit. Sorely needed data virtualisation functionality may arrive sooner than was previously thought.

ROGERS, James. The storage balancing act. Computer weekly, 13 February, 2003. pp.34-8.
The latest study into how companies are coping with the storage challenge shows that IT managers are still struggling with spiralling volumes of data, often adopting networked storage architectures to conquer the data mountain.

Storage solutions. Computing, 30 January, 2003. pp.27-42.
Features of several articles covering the role of storage in disaster recovery policy, ECM, near-line devices, the present state of storage, and short cases studies of storage media.

What is nearline storage? DMmagazine, January/February, 2003. pp.22-6.
It is easier to describe what nearline storage is not, rather than what it is. It is more an idea than an actual ‘thing’ but is worth considering by those suffering backup-window time-constraints, expensive disks and have long-term data retention needs and data-related litigation prospects. It could be a hierarchical storage management revisited.

WHITTLE, Sally. Affordable Sans for small firms. Computer weekly, 13 February, 2003. pp.40-2.
The high cost of storage area networks has been keeping them out of reach of small and medium-sized businesses but network providers are now offering affordable solutions to boost sales.