data retention news from FierceCIO

Electronic discovery, its costs and risks are things most people would probably prefer not to think about unless forced to after being hit with a lawsuit. The costs and risks can be best handled, Read more...

You may be in favor of maintaining a specific data retention policy rather than keeping data forever, but it can be tricky getting business units to cooperate. First you have to persuade them to let Read more...

Google, this week, announced a new policy on retention of data, promising to anonymize IP addresses on its server Relevant Products/Services logs after nine months. This will slash the Read more...

The new eDiscovery rules are forcing many companies to make changes to incorporate data-retention policies into their operations. And that means companies are still struggling to get in line with the Read more...

It's more important than ever to retain records, but it's a mistake to save everything. If you do, the data will grow so quickly that it will be impossible to manage. To manage records Read more...

Gaining and maintaining control over the varied types of content in an organization is the bane of many CIOs' existences. The best way to make it manageable is to create effective policies and Read more...

The recent rash of legislation governing data retention, electronic discovery, privacy, data use and abuse has created a goldmine for lawyers well-versed in IT issues. More than ever before, CIOs Read more...

By employing virtualization in your IT infrastructure, you are enabling your IT organization to take advantage of the "pay as you go" model of computing, providing just the amount of processing Read more...

Not spending enough time, effort or money on enterprise data management can lead to increased risk and decreased competitive advantage, especially in financial firms. Without effective data Read more...

It's of little surprise that data retention and knowledge management will be areas of primary focus for the next few years, given how valuable data is in the enterprise. A big part of that, Read more...