- Title: The letter of the IT law.
- Source: Industry Week
- Date: January 1, 2008
- Relevancy: General Business
- Summary: Statistics regarding the effects the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are having on businesses, including new technology implementation and revised e-mail retention policies.
- Title: Commentary: Oregon businesses face serious trouble if they don't keep electronic data around (subscription required)
- Source: Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland, OR)
- Date: December 17, 2007
- Summary: Companies can and will be held liable if emails and other electronically stored information are destroyed after that company has become involved in a lawsuit, even if the destruction takes place as part of a routine electronic document protocol (ie all emails over 60 days old are deleted).
- Title: Happy Anniversary, E-discovery! (subscription required)
- Source: Lawyers USA
- Date: December 3, 2007
- Relevancy: Legal, General Business
- Summary: In the last year, more and more businesses have been adopting e-discovery readiness programs to deal with the issue of preservation of electronically stored information (ESI) and the sometimes exorbitant costs associated with ESI demands during litigation.
- Title: No Paper, More Problems
- Source: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
- Date: November 8, 2007
- Relevancy: General Business
- Summary: As much as 70% of all electronic documents generated by businesses will never be printed on paper. If a suit is filed, that could translate into paying a legal team to sift through years of stored e-mail looking for relevant messages. Having a good storage and archiving system in place can cut down significantly on the time and money spent on finding and retrieving relevant documents.
- Title: E-Discovery: Blessing or Curse?
- Source: American Agent & Broker
- Date: October 1, 2007
- Relevancy: Financial
- Summary: New legislation essentially makes any and all electronically stored data fair game in any litigation proceeding and puts the onus on companies to be able to quickly retrieve electronic documents for use in discovery.
- Title: The importance of communications management
- Source: American Agent & Broker
- Date: October 1, 2007
- Relevancy: Financial
- Summary: General communications management planning should include three specific aspects: document retention policies, privacy policies and registered e-mail. It is important that employees understand what a 'business-critical' e-mail is and the difference between it and a "non-record" message (personal e-mail, or other e-mail not directly relating to a business activity).
- Title: Federal law mandates e-mail archiving.
- Source: District Administration
- Date: October 1, 2007
- Relevancy: Education, General Business
- Summary: Public entities must be able to produce electronically stored information from staff members. Due to the amount of information stored in electronic form, an archiving system that includes a search engine function makes the most sense.
- Title: Best Practices: Will Your Data Recovery Strategy Work for DR?
- Source: TechTarget
- Date: August 1, 2007
- Relevancy: All
- Summary: A tiered data recovery plan using one or more vendors is often the best option. Make sure you cover the critical details but don't make your data recovery solution so complex you need a specially trained employee just for that one task.
- Title: Navigating in the Brave New World of E-Discovery: Ethics, Sanctions and Spoliation
- Source: FDCC Quarterly
- Date: July 1, 2007
- Relevancy: Legal, General Business
- Summary: An in-depth review of e-discovery requirements, the Revised Rules of Civil Procedure, ethical and functional issues for law firms assisting their customers with e-discovery, and details of cases where failure to retain backups cost defendants $30+ million.
- Title: Data savings not worth the loss
- Source: The Columbus Dispatch
- Date: June 1, 2007
- Relevancy: All
- Summary: As part of the state of Ohio’s IT backup policies, tape backups were taken offsite for storage. One tape was stolen from the vehicle of the employee transporting the tape. The incident is estimated to cost the state over three million dollars in backup upgrades and damage control.
- Title: Where’s my data? Online backup solutions come of age.
- Source: Black Enterprise
- Date: June 1, 2007
- Relevancy: Legal, General Business
- Summary: Many online backup services are available in a range of prices, depending on your needs. Online backup services beat traditional tape and hard drive backup systems in their ease of use, affordability and the fact that they work behind the scenes on a specific schedule and don’t require employee intervention.
