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How to Defend Against e-Discovery Surprises with a Social Media Plan
With the rise of social netorks like Tiwtter and Facebook, employers are finding it tough to maitain e-discovery policies and allow their emplyees the freedom to use the social web. We discuss things you can do now to buffer... -
How the Cloud Is Spurring Reform of Federal Law
The cloud is bringing endless efficiencies to business and consumers, however it also brings up challenging privacy and law enforcement issues that need to be addressed. -
Storage Firm Sanctioned $150K for eDiscovery Snafu
When you make your money making storage devices it’s a little embarrassing to show up in court without data that’s supposed to be safely stored on your hardware. It can be costly, too. That’s what storage titan SanDisk discovered... -
4 Quick Tips to Help IT Improve Communications with Legal
To say that IT and legal speak different languages is an understatement. The problem is, legal burdens on companies grow daily. What’s more, the days when cartons of paper documents could satisfy the discovery requirement of a case are... -
Wisconsin “De-claws” eDiscovery Rules
Following the lead of the federal courts, the states have begun to put on their books procedures for handling the discovery of electronically stored information in legal proceedings. What’s interesting about what the states are doing is how... -
Should the cloud be more regulated?
Should the federal government regulate the cloud? Apparently, Microsoft thinks so. Softzilla is asking Congress to pass legislation to regulate cloud computing. -
RFID duels with bar codes for data center dominance.
Tracking assets in the data center has largely been the domain of the bar code, but RFID has begun to make inroads into the striped label’s territory. -
How to Run a Leaner, Greener Data Center.
Deadbeat servers can impose needless expenses on a data center. Decommissioning a single dead, or “ghost” server, can save as much $560 a year, although some analysts put that figure upwards of $2,000. For large server farms—farms with 100,000 servers a... -
The Dangers of Ignoring Social Media during Backups.
If you think you can ignore the social networking and social media content created by your organization in your storage plans, you’d better think about that again. Sure, there’s plenty of noise being generated at places like Facebook, LinkedIn... -
Economic Slump Over for eDiscovery
After months of miserly spending on technology, it appears that law firms are loosening their purse strings. Legal hours and matters are up 40 percent this year over last and a chief beneficiary of the increase in income at...