September 9, 2009 – 12:47 pm
The eDiscovery process has been a moving target with a steady upward trend. More and more data admissable as evidence, more and more requirements for companies to provide that data.
California has ratcheted up eDiscovery requirements yet again with the passage of the Electronic Discovery Act.
California is a bellwhether for many things, including eDiscovery laws. Expect requirements for businesses to continue their upward climb.
Disaster recovery used to rely solely on a good backup process. Averting legal disasters depends on a robust eDiscovery process in place before the event occurs.
Storing business data these days is as much about getting it back out as putting it in.
When it comes to data & storage infrastructure, it’s good business these days to invest as much in eDiscovery as more traditional data protection. Can any email, document, etc. be found and recalled quickly and efficiently?
By Pete Steege
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Tagged Backup, CA, California, Chapter 5, compliance, discovery, eDiscovery, Electronic Discovery Act, laws, legal, liability, recovery, Schwarzenegger, storage
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With the ever-increasing amounts of data storage requirements, IT managers are running out of floor space to house it all. In fact, in a Storage Magazine’s recent survey, seventy-one percent of respondents indicated that “Managing rapidly growing capacity requirements” is their biggest problem.
Typically we see overflow racks creeping into corners of the employee kitchens or even the proverbial closet once reserved for coats and umbrellas. But believe it or not, I recently heard of a Data Center manager who had resorted to using “roof-top storage” for his burgeoning storage need. Yes, I mean literally moving some of his data storage to the roof of his building! (Kind of gives a new meaning to “Storage in the cloud”, doesn’t it, Pete?)
At this rate, could this really be that far off in the future? With the advent of durable, weather-resistant, storage containers like PODs (Portable On-Demand Storage), is this a reality for housing our archived or nearline data and if so — what will a storage array look like that needs to operate in this kind of environment?
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