Don't Get Caught In The Data Rip Tide When Litigation Comes
By Simon Taylor, Senior Director, Information Access Management, CommVault
Well, it is great to join my colleagues David West and Dipesh Patel in the ranks of CommVault bloggers. I've been ruminating over this inaugural post for the past two months while I've been presenting at our nationwide Innovate8 information and data management road show. I've engaged in so many great conversations with customers and prospects about information governance, risk, compliance and eDiscovery, and am excited to use this blog as a way to share the top-of-minds issues with you here.
A bit of background on me. I'm an English guy living in the New Jersey area, on the doorstep of the city with the biggest financial meltdown in recent history. I get asked a lot why I moved to the US. The answer is I was promised me great weather, good food and less tax. Whilst the weather is, of course, a nice contrast to the rain in the UK, the size of food portions is overwhelming, and tax – well who knows what's going to happen there. What's ended up being even more cool about living over the river from the Big Apple is that you can see firsthand how the climate around data retention and business information access has changed.
The aim of my blog is to address and comment on the real world information challenges or organizations today bridging the gap between IT and legal teams. I've got lawyers, IT professionals, compliance experts and some technical propeller heads all at hand to comment on these issues. You remember that old game called "Simon says". Well I'm not saying you're going to agree with everything we say but let's get the debate going.
Back to the Innovate8 seminar series, I want to share with you a chat I had with Randy Kahn, our keynote speaker, at our event in Boston last month. If you see him speak, you'll know immediately that he is passionate about getting people to change and be more proactive in the way they manage information for ease of access when it matters. This is never more important than eDiscovery where Randy commented on the size of litigations faced by companies and the costs of electronic information discovery. He was concerned that organizations keep approaching the exercise with the same cumbersome process over and over again and wonder why their litigation costs aren't going down. The key point – mismanaging data causes huge downstream problems in both information discovery and records compliance.
SOURCE: CommVault Systems