Because bullets are the best way to get a point across 
In may of my writings (white papers, blogs, etc.), I have referenced Gibson Dunn’s semi-annual Electronic Discovery and Information Law updates. These reports succinctly summarize trends in electronic discovery case law and the impact they may have on legal processes and technologies. I am a simple analyst absent of a legal degree, but I can [...]
Almost every electronic discovery vendor counts “Early Case Assessment” or “ECA” as part of their value proposition. Without fail, each vendor must remind me and the rest of the market on how early they can actually do the assessment. My immediate response is that they are focusing on the wrong letter in the TLA (three [...]
When Paul Revere raced through the villages of Massachusetts yelling “The Red Coats are Coming,” I bet you a lot more people would have listened if there were two British soldiers chasing him. In other words, if Paul Revere had tangible proof or some “examples,” his word would have meant a lot more. ESG has [...]
Some food for thought as we prepare for the long weekend in the United States: Xyratex must be wondering what it has to do to raise its stock price. The company reported its fiscal q2 earnings yesterday which included beating street top and bottom line estimates and in-line guidance. The stock traded 12% to the [...]
I recently wrote a piece highlighting how organizations can better manage data on tapes without actually having to go through a restore process. The concept of tape remediation may be understood, but it is rarely prioritized by IT departments. And, more than likely, corporate attorneys have never heard of such a thing and certainly do not understand [...]
It was only a matter of time – an incriminating e-mail was uncovered in the BP oil spill mess. The bullets: (From the article)..BP took measures to cut costs in the weeks before the catastrophic blowout in the Gulf of Mexico as it dealt with one problem after another, prompting a BP engineer to describe [...]
Yesterday, Permabit released its Albireo data optimization software–a deduplication solution designed to be embedded into primary storage systems. Right now, a majority of primary storage systems do not have dedupe capabilities and, because of lengthy product cycles, it is hard to determine when they will. Now, hold that thought for one second. I spend a majority [...]
On Wednesday, I participated in a webinar with Larry Briggi of FTI Technology and Jim Zucker of Hogan Lovells. The discussion centered on the intersection of rampant SharePoint adoption and the ongoing increase of electronic discovery. During the webinar, which had over 300 participants, we conducted a few “polling questions” to see how the audience [...]
Assume for five minutes that CA Technologies (formerly known as CA and Computer Associates) had no baggage as a mainframe software company or as a place where “acquisitions went to die” (not my term–a former employee once told me that). This leaves us with a ~$4B software company with a new name, some recent “cloud” [...]
Informatica has joined EMC Select, a program which allows field organizations to sell non-EMC solutions. EMC can now offer Informatica’s Information Lifecycle Management (application and database archiving, application retirement, test and development provisioning, and subsetting) and Master Data Management (data integration and governance). Two categories of bullets on this one: This will not be your standard [...]
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