Put Big Data on a Diet with Defensible Data Deletion from StoredIQ

Make 2012 the year you get your corporate data in shape! Intelligently reduce “Big Data” for more effective and efficient eDiscovery and information governance.

StoredIQ’s new service offering for defensibly reducing enterprise data is designed to ease the burden of identifying, analyzing and collecting matter-relevant information. The StoredIQ Defensible Data Deletion solution utilizes the StoredIQ Platform to help organizations gain insight into business-critical information distributed across the enterprise. By applying intelligence to the governance of Big Data, organizations can reduce the overall corporate data volume by up to 80%, significantly improving the efficiency and success of their eDiscovery initiatives while reducing legal cost and risk.

Explosive growth from unstructured data continues to impede the legal discovery process. According to a recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) survey, 69% of corporate counsel indicated that working more closely with IT and records management to expire and delete data to limit unnecessary data retention for future litigation requests was the most important priority facing their internal eDiscovery process. Legal and compliance issues typically trigger urgent IT and legal triage, but putting out these fires reactively doesn’t solve the larger problem of poor data governance– often the source of significant costs for large eDiscovery data productions. Minimizing long-term cost and risk requires proactive solutions to reduce irrelevant or “junk” data, and better understand where responsive, regulated or litigious data may be located.

“Defensibly deleting non-business data minimizes future productions for legal and regulatory requests, including the often significant eDiscovery labor and costs for identification, collection, processing, and costly downstream attorney review. Whether during the immediate eDiscovery response or as part of an initial plan for better proactive preparation and ongoing compliance, StoredIQ can offer corporations immediate cost savings and ongoing risk avoidance.” – Katey Wood, Enterprise Strategy Group

StoredIQ Defensible Data Deletion – Key Phases

Phase 1 – Identify: Find data at a granular level; understand its current and potential business value across your enterprise including within: Content and Records Management Systems, Email, SharePoint, Desktops/Laptops, and Archives.

Phase 2 – Manage: Classify data according to retention and disposition policies, and compliance mandates including: PII, PCI, FINRA, Dodd-Frank, Legal hold, Aged /obsolete data, and Non-business data.

Phase 3 – Act: Manually or automatically take corrective action to: Protect, Delete, Expire, Migrate, Store, and Optimize data.

To learn more about StoredIQ’s Defensible Data Deletion solution, stop by the StoredIQ booth at LegalTech — #214 — download the Defensible Data Deletion solution sheet, or email us at info@storediq.com.

New Whitepaper: Actionable Information Governance – Gaining Immediate Value and ROI from Enterprise Data

The growing volume and greater dispersion of data, new methods of collaboration, and the emergence of new internet-based applications pose their own challenges to finding and utilizing information most effectively. Combined with legal, regulatory, and privacy directives, data governance has become an increasing challenge for enterprise organizations. A new white paper from Enterprise Strategy Group addresses how corporations can turn Information Governance from a priority into reality.

Take action. Start governing.

This paper addresses some of the most common use cases for deploying information governance solutions including: eDiscovery, Compliance, Storage Optimization, Data Mapping, and Data Migration—focusing on the immediate ROI and long-term impact. Download the ESG whitepaper and take a step toward actionable information governance:

• Determine what data you have and where it is
• Clean-up trash and de-duplicate data
• Analyze contents and access patterns to determine appropriate policy
• Migrate data to the appropriate storage tier for greater cost efficiency
• Enforce policy for retention and deletion, potentially expiring what’s beyond usefulness or mandated compliance retention

‘Boil-the-ocean’ approaches stall many information management projects. Companies can gain more immediate near-term benefit and ROI by tying actionable information governance to other high-priority large-scale IT initiatives. Tackling an immediate and acute project like eDiscovery or regulatory response, storage optimization, or records management initialization can be an opportunity for ‘go-forward clean-up’ by adding elements of good information governance and better data management.

– Katey Wood, analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group

The ESG whitepaper is available from the StoredIQ website at www.info.storediq.com/esg

For information about how StoredIQ can provide actionable information governance solutions for eDiscovery, records management, compliance, and storage optimization, email info@storediq.com.

StoredIQ Extends Information Governance to the Cloud with Support for Microsoft Office 365

Seeing growing customer demand for eDiscovery, Records Management, and Compliance solutions for cloud-based data, StoredIQ has announced support for cloud-based Exchange and SharePoint residing within Microsoft Office 365 (formerly Microsoft Business Productivity Office Suite – BPOS). With this extended capability, Microsoft Office 365 customers can utilize StoredIQ to gain the same deep visibility and understanding of their cloud-based email and SharePoint data as they do with StoredIQ’s on-premise information governance solutions.

Customers, including a major U.S. car manufacturer, are using StoredIQ to quickly connect to Microsoft Office 365 to identify, collect and manage Exchange email and SharePoint data for responding to eDiscovery requests, applying records policies, and adhering to regulatory compliance mandates. As a result, StoredIQ provides enterprises with actionable information governance solutions to realize the benefits of cloud computing while still fulfilling their legal and compliance requirements.

According to 451 Research, cloud computing continues to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 24 percent and will reach $16.7 billion in revenue by 2013.

As enterprises continue moving data to the cloud, information governance challenges are becoming more complex. StoredIQ’s Platform connects to Microsoft Office 365 and indexes its data, combining the ability to identify, collect, and manage cloud-based data for legal discovery and records management into an integrated information governance application as a means of preempting litigation and reducing potential legal risks associated with cloud data storage.

– David Horrigan, analyst, eDiscovery and information governance at 451 Research

As a way to minimize storage costs and IT investments, we are seeing more and more customers move data to the cloud. Whether on-premise or in the cloud, StoredIQ can provide a highly scalable solution for governing all enterprise data and ensure that data placed in the cloud is discoverable for litigation, regulatory inquiries, and records retention scheduling.

StoredIQ’s support for Microsoft Office 365 includes:

• Identification and collection of data from both Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft SharePoint Online
• Integration with Active Directory
• Auto–detection of both mailboxes and SharePoint sub-sites in the cloud
• Connection throttling to Microsoft Office 365 in order to maximize network efficiency
• Managed security and access, along with automatic activity and chain–of–custody reporting

For more information about our actionable information governance solutions – for on premise or cloud-based data – please email info@storediq.com.