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LEVERAGING BIG DATA FOR LITIGATION READINESS AND E-DISCOVERY SUCCESS can be used to uncover other sources, including PSTs or backup tapes, that would not have been uncovered easily in the past. DISPOSITION MANAGEMENT Today's best-in-class litigation readiness and corporate data strategies involve determining the disposition of content: what records have value, what has no value, what presents a risk and how to take action. Common dispositions include moving essential content to an archive, preserving data for legal hold, removing duplicate and redundant content, encrypting sensitive data and purging what has no business value. Determining disposition not only puts legal teams in a position for litigation readiness success, it also limits the time spent on e-discovery events. By encrypting data, there's a significantly reduced chance of a breach and resulting lawsuits, which can be accompanied by a loss in consumer confidence and possible fines from industry regulators. do anything but become a liability as meanings change, employees change and communications are leaked. the many duplicate copies made. Considering the growth trend of 40 to 80 percent per year, big data is not likely to go away anytime soon. An organized legal hold archive is invaluable. In the case of e-discovery, business contracts, specific communication trails and processes are already segregated and accessible for immediate review. This growth makes it essential to go beyond standard data management, archiving and e-discovery norms. You need to gain control of your data. The most effective way to accomplish this is with a simple data profile, updated policies and a disposition plan. Finally, removing duplicate content reduces the clutter of information that must be searched and makes it easier to manage, move to a less expensive storage platform or purge. Having one identified copy of a specific data set and controlling its disposition is much safer than managing daily or weekly copies of the same information. LEVERAGING BIG DATA Big data is self-explanatory: It's big. It becomes everything ever written, sent, received or downloaded within an organization's network and Understanding what exists, why it exists and if and where it should exist are questions every legal and IT department should ask in order to achieve litigation readiness and cut e-discovery time and costs exponentially. Once your organization's big data is understood and profiled, disposition can be decided, and it can be managed for risk, regulatory compliance and cost-efficiency. Jim McGann is the Vice President at Index Engines. Jim has extensive experience with e-discovery and Purging aged data with no business value minimizes the mass of email messages that have to be combed through in preparation for litigation, while also reducing associated risks. Once an email message loses all business value, it cannot information management in the Fortune 2000 sector. Before joining Index Engines in 2004, he worked for leading software firms, including Information Builders and the France-based engineering software provider Dassault Systemes. Jim can be contacted at jim.mcgann@indexengines.com.

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