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While lawyers and IT professionals come from different worlds and talk different languages, there is no getting around the need for them to communicate and work with one another. The bottom line is Read more...

A new research report has found that IT executives are confident they can respond to e-discovery litigation requests given their significant investments in records management, archiving and Read more...

Antispam appliance vendor Barracuda has revealed that it has made a US$186 million cash offer for Sourcefire. This is 13 percent more than the company's current's current stock price, though half

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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...

Linux watchers take note, The SCO Group, a Unix shop known for its Linux litigation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday. SCO plans to maintain all normal business operations throughout the Read more...

After three years of litigation, IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) separately paid fines that added up to $5.3 million, in order to settle a broader set of DOJ lawsuits stemming from multiple Read more...

If you want to be able to find any piece of information at any time--a critical requirement in these days of e-discovery and e-litigation--you had better consider implementing an organizational Read more...

The wide-ranging responsibilities of CIOs today means taking more legal and business risk than ever before. That means CIOs must add legal expertise to their IT, people management and business Read more...

Effective email archiving requires the right tools, which can help organizations not only create, disseminate and manage documents, but meet requirements for retention and legal discovery as well. Read more...