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The diminishing returns of storing unneeded data

With rising regulatory pressure on data storage practices, compliance is becoming "a complex and critical high-risk business issue that only executive management can truly fix."

Spring clean your data to reduce costs, risks

The mountains of data your organization is retaining come with considerable costs, both obvious and not so obvious.

Reducing costs and risks of e-discovery

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,

The case for not getting rid of data

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

Google slashes time for retaining documents

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

The eDiscovery swamp

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

Records management 101

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

Controlling enterprise content

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

Lawyers are a fact of life for CIOs

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

The benefits of virtualization

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