Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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| A sampling of ediscovery products," (PDF) below). "You need more than just content management," says Hupper at the New York City Law Department. "The tool needs to manage retention. You need a way to tell the system the retention period for a document is up and [to] get rid of it."
Hupper's department uses Interwoven Inc.'s WorkSite, which is popular with the legal industry. The tool stores most kinds of common electronic documents--Office documents, WordPerfect, PDFs, Visio and email. Most importantly, "we can tell the system when the retention period is up and it takes care of it," says Hupper. Retention management requires the ability to set and enforce policy at the individual document level if need be. A company can use almost any archiving tool to set specific retention periods for documents and files, and then tie these retention periods to data storage or data destruction policies. At a minimum, the tool will need to be able to store and search PST files (Microsoft Outlook email files). Search tools are what most IT people think of when they hear ediscovery. More advanced search tools apply intelligence to perform contextual search based on the content of the document, dive deep into the meta data or look for behavioral patterns. Some will handle deduplication and near deduplication, in which small differences in otherwise nearly identical documents are highlighted.
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This was first published in May 2008
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