Arcot Systems has agreed to be acquired by Computer Associates for $200 million. I joined Arcot Systems as employee #32 a while back and worked there for several years. Many of the people I worked with at Arcot are still there and they have my congratulations. The following is a screen shot from their current
The Enterprise Archive as the eDiscovery System of Record
With the typical Fortune 1000 firm now having over 5 petabytes of data, including SharePoint and social media, large enterprises can benefit from having a single “source of truth” or system of record for eDiscovery. Instead of having to collect, search and analyze data from multiple repositories, an centralized system can allow legal, records management,
Information Governance: Precrime and Early Case Assessment
I recently posted an article titled Best Practices: Stopping Precrime on The Modern Archivist. In this article, I wrote about the ability of organizations to stop information crimes before they happen by integrating “Precrime Intelligence” and Early Case Assessment into their standard, everyday Information Management processes, the same way that Tom Cruise attempted to stop
Automated Collection: Mitgating the Risks and Costs of Manual Collection
Jason Baron, a thought leader electronic discovery, recently mentioned a topic that “ought to be blogged about,” namely that of automated collections vs. manual collections. Automated collection is the use of software and hardware to improve the speed and reliability of collection over the network while manual collections often require manual collection of hard drives,
