by Alon Israely, Senior Advisor at BIA
actually want to keep. Most organizations want to keep as little data as possible, within the bounds of legal and corporate policy preservation/retention requirements. In terms of the data a corporation are responsible for, less is more — smaller is better.
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Fitting Into a Smaller Box The costs of litigation and regulatory examinations are
skyrocketing, and the primary driver behind these rising costs is this increase in data. In the past 10 years, costs went up not only because of the amount of data involved in legal matters, specifically in discovery, but also because of the special
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usinesses today are generating more data than ever before. Some large organizations create terabytes of new data every day. However, there is a dichotomy between the amount of data created by organizations and the amount of data that they
mechanisms, technologies and processes required to move that data through the overall litigation workflow (the process described by the EDRM). Clearly, when more data might be potentially involved in a matter, more data will need to be preserved, culled and reviewed. Conversely, less data gathered, analyzed and reviewed translates to less time and money spent on the data component of legal matters. Therefore, legal wants to keep the data small. Data reduction efforts are also being made in the IT area.
Organizations are no longer merely purchasing the largest capacity drives or biggest storage arrays, but are looking at the types of software and other administrative controls that exist on the market to keep data sizes low. In fact, many organizations are purchasing laptops and workstations for their employees with intentionally smaller hard disk drives and are adding automated technologies to limit the types of data that can be stored on those systems. The new 2010 Exchange email system,
